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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... reason and in conscience to submit to them and acknowledge my conviction ac- cordingly ... Of the wrongs and sufferings of the Irish people , ( which is altogether a different question , ) of the condition to which their landlords ...
... reason and in conscience to submit to them and acknowledge my conviction ac- cordingly ... Of the wrongs and sufferings of the Irish people , ( which is altogether a different question , ) of the condition to which their landlords ...
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... reason , and during the last hundred and fifty years , men have been reasoning themselves out of every thing that they ought to believe and feel . Among a certain miserable class who are more numerous than is commonly supposed , he who ...
... reason , and during the last hundred and fifty years , men have been reasoning themselves out of every thing that they ought to believe and feel . Among a certain miserable class who are more numerous than is commonly supposed , he who ...
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... reason , and possess a firm and assured faith , feel that I have in this opinion a strong hold , .. I cannot but perceive that they who have endeavoured to dispossess the people of their old instinctive belief in such things , have done ...
... reason , and possess a firm and assured faith , feel that I have in this opinion a strong hold , .. I cannot but perceive that they who have endeavoured to dispossess the people of their old instinctive belief in such things , have done ...
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... , and wherefore are you come ? Be not alarmed , he replied . Your reason , which has shown you the possibility of such an appearance as you now witness , must have con- vinced you also that it would never be permit- ted 14 INTRODUCTION .
... , and wherefore are you come ? Be not alarmed , he replied . Your reason , which has shown you the possibility of such an appearance as you now witness , must have con- vinced you also that it would never be permit- ted 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... uncertain as to you ; except , only , that having a clearer and more comprehensive knowledge of the past , we are enabled to reason better from causes to VOL . I. с consequences , and by what has been , to judge INTRODUCTION . 17.
... uncertain as to you ; except , only , that having a clearer and more comprehensive knowledge of the past , we are enabled to reason better from causes to VOL . I. с consequences , and by what has been , to judge INTRODUCTION . 17.
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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.