New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 115Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Hood, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1859 |
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... force ; but if once their country , or their laws or religion were attacked , they would soon learn to place their military system upon a par with that of those who should venture to outrage their nationality . The moral superiority ...
... force ; but if once their country , or their laws or religion were attacked , they would soon learn to place their military system upon a par with that of those who should venture to outrage their nationality . The moral superiority ...
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... force its own dogmas upon other people and other nations . Truth will always prevail , if quietly and peaceably allowed to have its own way . We have one system . Under it we have poverty , rudeness , and vulgarity among the lower ...
... force its own dogmas upon other people and other nations . Truth will always prevail , if quietly and peaceably allowed to have its own way . We have one system . Under it we have poverty , rudeness , and vulgarity among the lower ...
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... force was in another agony , lest those four keen eyes should wander to his damaged surplice and the pins . Somebody else answered : " Aultane , my lord . " The judges passed on . Arkell would not look towards Aultane : he was too noble ...
... force was in another agony , lest those four keen eyes should wander to his damaged surplice and the pins . Somebody else answered : " Aultane , my lord . " The judges passed on . Arkell would not look towards Aultane : he was too noble ...
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... force and the nine choristers having re - entered the schoolroom , the dean and Mr. St. John walked into it . The master pushed his spectacles to the top of his brow , and rose in astonishment . " Have the goodness to call up Aultane ...
... force and the nine choristers having re - entered the schoolroom , the dean and Mr. St. John walked into it . The master pushed his spectacles to the top of his brow , and rose in astonishment . " Have the goodness to call up Aultane ...
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... force of ridi- cule after Richard Bentley had put in his final knock - down blow to the small wits who had teased him to the putting forth of his giant strength . ALEXANDER POPE , while the contest was yet young , was so rash as to ...
... force of ridi- cule after Richard Bentley had put in his final knock - down blow to the small wits who had teased him to the putting forth of his giant strength . ALEXANDER POPE , while the contest was yet young , was so rash as to ...
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Page 185 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 473 - But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Page 275 - I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Page 475 - It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Page 472 - The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 473 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Page 167 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
Page 346 - Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done, nor ought he to be lamented who died so full of honours and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr ; the most awful that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.
Page 473 - These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.
Page 477 - Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.