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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... tion that the moral relationship between them is dissolved . Epaminondas can have no sym- pathy at this time with Thebes , nor Cicero with Rome , nor Belisarius with the imperial city of the East . But the worthies of England retain ...
... tion that the moral relationship between them is dissolved . Epaminondas can have no sym- pathy at this time with Thebes , nor Cicero with Rome , nor Belisarius with the imperial city of the East . But the worthies of England retain ...
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... tion of a light , for that is either succeeded by darkness , or leaves a different hue upon the surrounding objects . In the same indivisible point of time when I beheld the distinct , indi- vidual , and , to all sense of sight ...
... tion of a light , for that is either succeeded by darkness , or leaves a different hue upon the surrounding objects . In the same indivisible point of time when I beheld the distinct , indi- vidual , and , to all sense of sight ...
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... , would be unerringly indicated by an habitual disposi- tion for it , and that if exercise were as needful In this as food for the preservation of the animal eco- nomy COLLOQUY III THE DRUIDICAL STONES -VISITATIONS OF PESTILENCE.
... , would be unerringly indicated by an habitual disposi- tion for it , and that if exercise were as needful In this as food for the preservation of the animal eco- nomy COLLOQUY III THE DRUIDICAL STONES -VISITATIONS OF PESTILENCE.
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... the last hundred and fifty years ; a por- tion of time , which long as it may seem when compared with the brief term of mortal exist- VOL . I. E ence , is as nothing in the physical history of VISITATIONS OF PESTILENCE . 49.
... the last hundred and fifty years ; a por- tion of time , which long as it may seem when compared with the brief term of mortal exist- VOL . I. E ence , is as nothing in the physical history of VISITATIONS OF PESTILENCE . 49.
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... tion that heavily overweighs the benefit of im- proved therapeutics . For as the intercourse between nations has become greater , the evils of one have been communicated to another . Pigs , Spanish dollars , and Norway rats are not the ...
... tion that heavily overweighs the benefit of im- proved therapeutics . For as the intercourse between nations has become greater , the evils of one have been communicated to another . Pigs , Spanish dollars , and Norway rats are not the ...
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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.