The Western, Volume 4Western Pub. Association, 1878 |
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... question must be sought from neither extreme of society . We can- not expect a satisfactory answer from the wealthiest , for the infirmities of our common nature too often betray these into regarding their privileges as abstracted from ...
... question must be sought from neither extreme of society . We can- not expect a satisfactory answer from the wealthiest , for the infirmities of our common nature too often betray these into regarding their privileges as abstracted from ...
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... appears from the exclamation he made in a later time , when listening to a history of Alexander the Great : " How happy was he that he did not know Italy . " Mixed up with this vexed question of so - called 36 The Western .
... appears from the exclamation he made in a later time , when listening to a history of Alexander the Great : " How happy was he that he did not know Italy . " Mixed up with this vexed question of so - called 36 The Western .
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Mixed up with this vexed question of so - called republi- can institutions in Lombardy on the one , and imperial rule of Germany on the other , hand , there is to be considered the by no means inferior question of the spiritual rule of ...
Mixed up with this vexed question of so - called republi- can institutions in Lombardy on the one , and imperial rule of Germany on the other , hand , there is to be considered the by no means inferior question of the spiritual rule of ...
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... question there appeared the same spirit of retrenchment which has so extensively manifested itself of late in the relations of the people and the government , for this idea had taken posses- sion of the popular mind , and had gotten ...
... question there appeared the same spirit of retrenchment which has so extensively manifested itself of late in the relations of the people and the government , for this idea had taken posses- sion of the popular mind , and had gotten ...
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... questions similar to them , have agitated all interested in their settlement , and will con- tinue so to do ; but , though a full and final answer to any one of them would involve an answer to all , yet the inquiry is not generally ...
... questions similar to them , have agitated all interested in their settlement , and will con- tinue so to do ; but , though a full and final answer to any one of them would involve an answer to all , yet the inquiry is not generally ...
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Page 182 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 600 - He hath disgraced me and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies! and what's his reason? I am a Jew ! Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Page 601 - If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 600 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? @if you prick us do we not bleed? if you tickle us do we not laugh? if you poison us do we not die? and if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Page 182 - Areopagitica, in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few illiterate and illiberal individuals, who refused their sanction to any work which contained views or sentiments at all above the level of the vulgar superstition.
Page 183 - When I was released from these engagements, and thought that I was about to enjoy an interval of uninterrupted ease, I turned my thoughts to a continued history of my country, from the earliest times to the present period. I had already finished four books, when after the subversion of the monarchy, and the establishment of a republic, I was surprised by an invitation from the council of state, who desired my services in the office for foreign affairs.
Page 177 - I had spoken too freely on religion; for it was a rule which I laid down to myself in those places, never to be the first to begin any conversation on religion; but if any questions were put to me concerning my faith, to declare it without any reserve or fear.
Page 243 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 601 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 771 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake To perish never, Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...