History of Civilization in England, Том 2

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J. W. Parker and son, 1861
 

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Сторінка 42 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress, built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war ; This precious stone set in the silver sea, This happy breed of men, this little world, Which serves it in the office of
Сторінка 446 - By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Сторінка 42 - Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry For Christian service and true chivalry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son : This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear
Сторінка 445 - But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition ; a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.
Сторінка 436 - Were it possible that a human creature could grow up to manhood in some solitary place, without any communication with his own species, he could no more think of his own character, of the propriety or demerit of his own sentiments and conduct, of the
Сторінка 438 - analytic mind ; and, at present, there is not even any tolerably good work on the mental characteristics which distinguish the sexes, and there never will be one until physiology is united with biography. 50 " Sympathy, therefore, does not arise so much from the view of the passion, as from that of the situation which excites it.
Сторінка 453 - The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour.
Сторінка 452 - it is the usual, and, one may say, the natural state of things which nobody ever hears of. Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate.
Сторінка 436 - As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Сторінка 179 - upper part only; the lower have two wooden shuts or folds to open at pleasure and admit the fresh air." . . . . " The ordinary country-houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes and not glazed.

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