The Twentieth Century, Volume 21Nineteenth Century and After, 1887 |
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American argument Aurangzeb authority become beer believe Bill body Britain British called Catholic cause century character Church colonies colour constitutional deer forests Demeter Dicey doctrine doubt duty Empire England English existence fact favour feeling force foreign France French German give Gladstone Gladstone's hand Home Rule House of Lords idea Imperial important interest Ireland Irish labour land landlords legislation less living London Lord Hartington Lord Penzance Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Salisbury malt matter means ment millions mind Ministers moral nation natural selection nature never object opinion Parliament party peasant persons photographs political population Poseidon possible present produced question reason reform regard remarkable Russia Scotland Sir George Trevelyan species spirit supposed things thought tion Union whole words XXI.-No Zeus Zululand
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Page 3 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 3 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 3 - With the standards of the people plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Page 30 - It is an inherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. Still more obviously true is it that by their own hands only can any positive and durable improvement of their circumstances in life be worked out.
Page 424 - For doating on her beauty, though her death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute?
Page 4 - 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. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 672 - The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together, dwarf 'd or godlike, bond or free...
Page 672 - Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words...
Page 3 - Every gate is thronged with suitors, all the markets overflow. I have but an angry fancy: what is that which I should do?
Page 292 - The eager spirit has darted from my hold, And, with the intemperate energy of love, Flies to the dear feet of Emmanuel; But, ere it reach them, the keen sanctity, Which with its effluence, like a glory, clothes And circles round the Crucified, has seized, And scorch'd, and shrivell'd it; and now it lies Passive and still before the awful Throne.