Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume 1J. Murray, 1829 - 849 pages "His Colloquies of Society (1829) is a calm exposition of his 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" -ODNB. |
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... effect was more startling than electricity would have produced . hand had neither weight nor substance ; my fingers , when they would have closed upon it , found nothing that they could grasp it was intangible , though it had all the ...
... effect was more startling than electricity would have produced . hand had neither weight nor substance ; my fingers , when they would have closed upon it , found nothing that they could grasp it was intangible , though it had all the ...
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... effects of that restless spirit , which , like the Titaness Mutability described by your im- mortal master , insults ... effect , you are contented to cast your bread upon the waters . You are now acquainted with me and my intention ...
... effects of that restless spirit , which , like the Titaness Mutability described by your im- mortal master , insults ... effect , you are contented to cast your bread upon the waters . You are now acquainted with me and my intention ...
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... effect of the causes then in operation , and which were actu- ally close at hand . When the rain is gathering from the south or west , and those flowers and herbs which serve as natural hygrometers , close their leaves , men have no ...
... effect of the causes then in operation , and which were actu- ally close at hand . When the rain is gathering from the south or west , and those flowers and herbs which serve as natural hygrometers , close their leaves , men have no ...
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... effect . That notion never for a moment deluded me : not even in the ignorance and presumptuousness of youth , when first I perused Rousseau , and was unwilling to feel that a writer whose pas- sionate eloquence I felt and admired so ...
... effect . That notion never for a moment deluded me : not even in the ignorance and presumptuousness of youth , when first I perused Rousseau , and was unwilling to feel that a writer whose pas- sionate eloquence I felt and admired so ...
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... effect which this imminent danger appeared to produce upon those persons with whom I associated . The young , with that hilarity which belongs to thoughtless youth , used to converse about the places whither they should retire , and the ...
... effect which this imminent danger appeared to produce upon those persons with whom I associated . The young , with that hilarity which belongs to thoughtless youth , used to converse about the places whither they should retire , and the ...
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