The House on the SandsJ. Lane, 1903 - 318 pages |
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Page 245 - The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for — not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country, and upon the successful Management of which so much depends.
Page 234 - But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap; and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Page 248 - I may be considered, perhaps, to be a dreamer, or too enthusiastic, but I do not hesitate to say that, in my opinion, the political federation of the Empire is within the limits of possibility.
Page 42 - I think that you bore yourself appropriately to the state of life to which it has pleased God to call you.
Page 195 - ... considered the great art of Government in connection with the character of man, his proper education, his potential capacities. Yet, as we then said, it cannot be pretended that we are less in need of systematic politics than our fathers were sixty years since, or that general principles are now more generally settled even among members of the same party than they were then.
Page 195 - ... scheme of the Review, even if there had been no other obstacle, prevented it from being the organ of a systematic and constructive policy. There is not, in fact, a body of systematic political thought at work in our own day. The Liberals of the Benthamite school, as was said here not many months ago,1 surveyed society and institutions as a whole...
Page 196 - They surveyed society and institutions as a whole ; they connected their advocacy of political and legal changes with theories of human nature ; they considered the great art of government in connection with the character of man, his proper education, his potential capacities. They could explain in the large dialect of a definite scheme what were their aims and whither they were going.
Page 229 - Here, while the Antique-students lunch, {•/ ! Shall Art be slang'd o'er cheese and hunch, Whether the great RA'sa bunch Of gods or dogs, and whether Punch Is right about the PRB Here school-foundations in the act Of holiday, three files compact, Shall learn to view thee as a fact Connected with that zealous tract
Page 61 - Americans can't or won't understand that the greatness of America is an entirely different thing from the greatness of England. It isn't brag ; they are quite sincere. I remember when I was sixteen I wrote to the Home Secretary saying that I was very sorry, and didn't bear him any ill-will...
Page 147 - Something strange, mystical, dynamic had happened. It was as if scales had fallen from their eyes and they saw with a new vision. They stood together humbly, divested of all their greatness, touching one another in the instinctive fashion of children, as if seeking mutual protection, and they looked, with one accord, irresistibly compelled, at the child. At last McCurdie unbent his black brows and said hoarsely...