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... result . The facts of the whole three were derived from people who knew the murderers and the murdered ; and Walker's is expressly stated to have come from the best of all authority , - the murdered man's own wife . Now , in order to ...
... result . The facts of the whole three were derived from people who knew the murderers and the murdered ; and Walker's is expressly stated to have come from the best of all authority , - the murdered man's own wife . Now , in order to ...
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... results prove to the satisfaction of men of science on the other side of the Channel that the value of life has doubled in France since le bon vieux tems , ' and gained nearly one - third since the Revolution . " It is not necessary to ...
... results prove to the satisfaction of men of science on the other side of the Channel that the value of life has doubled in France since le bon vieux tems , ' and gained nearly one - third since the Revolution . " It is not necessary to ...
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... result chiefly of a voluntary outgoing of sympathy on the part of society ; and on the limits of this voluntary outgoing , taken in connexion with the power of organizing it so as to bring it within acting - distance of its objects , it ...
... result chiefly of a voluntary outgoing of sympathy on the part of society ; and on the limits of this voluntary outgoing , taken in connexion with the power of organizing it so as to bring it within acting - distance of its objects , it ...
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... results of that inquiry , so as no longer to be un- der the mere influence of those meagre popular notions and im ... result of inquiries , then the administration of that measure ought not to be entrusted to persons that have in any ...
... results of that inquiry , so as no longer to be un- der the mere influence of those meagre popular notions and im ... result of inquiries , then the administration of that measure ought not to be entrusted to persons that have in any ...
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... results . Let loose , as we have said , from any direct share in the admini- strative business of the Board , and restricted to mere routine duties , Mr. Chadwick naturally sought to devise suitable occu- pations for his compulsory ...
... results . Let loose , as we have said , from any direct share in the admini- strative business of the Board , and restricted to mere routine duties , Mr. Chadwick naturally sought to devise suitable occu- pations for his compulsory ...
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Page 173 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 173 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 546 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet. Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet; And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good.
Page 173 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
Page 534 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 538 - Thro' all the dewy-tassell'd wood, And shadowing down the horned flood In ripples, fan my brows and blow The fever from my cheek, and sigh The full new life that feeds thy breath Throughout my frame, till Doubt and Death, 111 brethren, let the fancy fly From belt to belt of crimson seas On leagues of odor streaming far, To where in yonder orient star A hundred spirits whisper
Page 491 - Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish; or must hang Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities...
Page 534 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 494 - NUNS fret not at their Convent's narrow room ; And Hermits are contented with their Cells ; And Students with their pensive Citadels : Maids at the Wheel, the Weaver at his Loom, Sit blithe and happy; Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Pea.k of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in Foxglove bells : In truth, the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is...
Page 117 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.