The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on HistorySwan Sonnenschein, 1895 - 302 стор. |
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Сторінка 36 - And Elijah came unto all the people, and said. How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Сторінка 206 - I had a very worthy friend then ; and he was a very noble person, and I know his memory is very grateful to all — Mr. John Hampden.
Сторінка 221 - Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement: but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself, Elizabeth.
Сторінка 256 - Bengal, the misgovernment of the English was carried to a point such as seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul who, in a year or two, squeezed out of a province the means of rearing marble palaces and baths on the shores of...
Сторінка 202 - He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse; while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Сторінка 252 - As to Clive, there was no limit to his acquisitions but his own moderation. The treasury of Bengal was thrown open to him. There were piled up, after the usage of Indian princes, immense masses of coin, among which might not seldom be detected the florins and byzants with which, before any European ship had turned 10 the Cape of Good Hope, the Venetians purchased the stuffs and spices of the East.
Сторінка 206 - You must get men of a spirit ; and take it not ill what I say, — I know you will not, — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go : — or else you will be beaten still.
Сторінка 260 - But though these machines served as outlets for the accelerating movement of the time, they did not cause that acceleration. In themselves inventions are passive, many of the most important having lain dormant for centuries, waiting for a sufficient store of force to have accumulated to set them working. That store must always take the shape of money, and money not hoarded, but in motion.
Сторінка 185 - According to this system, as expounded by Cranmer, the King was the spiritual as well as the temporal chief of the nation. In both capacities His Highness must have lieutenants. As he appointed civil officers to keep his seal, to collect his revenues, and to dispense justice in his name, so he appointed divines of various ranks to 50 History of England preach the gospel, and to administer the sacraments.
Сторінка 37 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.