Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume 1J. Murray, 1829 - 868 pages "...[A] calm exposition of [Southey's] mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library." -- DNB. |
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... political one in the second . Prince Arthur and Prince Henry , he replied . Do you notice this as ominous , or merely as remarkable ? Yet Merely as remarkable , was my answer . there are certain moods of mind , in which we can scarcely ...
... political one in the second . Prince Arthur and Prince Henry , he replied . Do you notice this as ominous , or merely as remarkable ? Yet Merely as remarkable , was my answer . there are certain moods of mind , in which we can scarcely ...
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... politics , are at this time more prevalent than they ever were known to be in any former age . You need not be told in what manner revolutions in opinion bring about the fate of empires ; and upon this ground 32 . THE IMPROVEMENT.
... politics , are at this time more prevalent than they ever were known to be in any former age . You need not be told in what manner revolutions in opinion bring about the fate of empires ; and upon this ground 32 . THE IMPROVEMENT.
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... political , are allowed their free range . As relates to infectious diseases , for example , this kingdom is now in a less civilized state than it was in my days , three centuries ago , when the leper was separated from general society ...
... political , are allowed their free range . As relates to infectious diseases , for example , this kingdom is now in a less civilized state than it was in my days , three centuries ago , when the leper was separated from general society ...
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... politics as in ethics , and you will not have lived in vain ! Scatter that seed upon the waters , and doubt not of the harvest ! Vindicate always the system of nature , .. in other and sounder words , the ways of God , .. while you ...
... politics as in ethics , and you will not have lived in vain ! Scatter that seed upon the waters , and doubt not of the harvest ! Vindicate always the system of nature , .. in other and sounder words , the ways of God , .. while you ...
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Robert Southey. SIR THOMAS MORE . And not less frightful when the political evils are contemplated ! To the dangers of an op- pressive and iniquitous order , such for example as exists where negro slavery is established , you are fully ...
Robert Southey. SIR THOMAS MORE . And not less frightful when the political evils are contemplated ! To the dangers of an op- pressive and iniquitous order , such for example as exists where negro slavery is established , you are fully ...
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Page 384 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 329 - Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Page 103 - ... rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 83 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 241 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 308 - I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can; their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science.
Page 198 - For he that once hath missed the right way, The further he doth goe, the further he doth stray. 44 Then do no further goe, no further stray; But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake, Th' ill to prevent, that life ensewen may.
Page 12 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Page 51 - From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us...
Page 325 - Sir, quoth he, and I may remember the building of Tenterton steeple, and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that Tenterton steeple was in building, there was no manner of speaking of any flats or sands that stopped the haven ; and therefore I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of the destroying and decay of Sandwich haven.