The Dublin Review, Volume 100Nicholas Patrick Wiseman Tablet Publishing Company, 1887 |
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... person of our day must be , by means of a process of selection and arbitrary rejection . We may , no doubt- and many of us do - construct an ideal figure out of the sayings , the life , and the character of the great figure of the ...
... person of our day must be , by means of a process of selection and arbitrary rejection . We may , no doubt- and many of us do - construct an ideal figure out of the sayings , the life , and the character of the great figure of the ...
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... persons who " find joy in meditating upon the moral perfections of the Omnipotent Being , for whose diversion the dismal panorama of all the evil work done under the sun was bidden to unfold itself , and who sees that it is very good ...
... persons who " find joy in meditating upon the moral perfections of the Omnipotent Being , for whose diversion the dismal panorama of all the evil work done under the sun was bidden to unfold itself , and who sees that it is very good ...
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... persons agree that it is the first con- dition of the attainment of scientific truth . Nobody denies that men of action find in it the first law of successful achievement in the material order . Its varied but always superlative power ...
... persons agree that it is the first con- dition of the attainment of scientific truth . Nobody denies that men of action find in it the first law of successful achievement in the material order . Its varied but always superlative power ...
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... persons who believe it he opposes " sensible people who accept the scientific account of human action . " " Sapientes qui sentiunt mecum . " Still , those of us who are thus under sentence of intellectual reprobation may find some ...
... persons who believe it he opposes " sensible people who accept the scientific account of human action . " " Sapientes qui sentiunt mecum . " Still , those of us who are thus under sentence of intellectual reprobation may find some ...
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... persons and pockets ; for we are the numerical majority , we can appeal to the ultima ratio of force , if to nothing higher . It is no fancy picture which I am now drawing . Fifty years ago Balzac wrote : " Crime has been made poetical ...
... persons and pockets ; for we are the numerical majority , we can appeal to the ultima ratio of force , if to nothing higher . It is no fancy picture which I am now drawing . Fifty years ago Balzac wrote : " Crime has been made poetical ...
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Page 62 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 63 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or ou : No occupation ; all men idle, all, — And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 58 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 71 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 71 - The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man ? Some say, the bee stings ; but I say, 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.
Page 131 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 69 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Page 63 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foizon, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 69 - God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 70 - What this, you gods? Why this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench...