The English PeopleT.F. Unwin, 1904 - 332 стор. |
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abstract action activity Anglicanism Anglo-Saxon Auguste Comte authority become believe Boutmy British causes century character characteristic Church civilisation common common law conscious considered constitution crofter customs desire doctrine effect electoral ÉMILE BOUTMY England English Englishman fact faith favour feeling force Ford Madox Brown foreign France French Frenchman generalisation habits hand House House of Commons human idea imagination immense impressions individual instincts interest Ireland John Stuart Mill justice labour land latifundia legislation less liberty limited Lord Lord Durham Lord Salisbury matter ment method mind moral nation natural necessity never opinion organisation Parliament Parliamentary party passions political position possession present principle proprietors question race reason recognised reform regard religion religious rendered result rich Scotland sentiment social society sort spirit statutes Taine things tion United Kingdom unity upper classes Whig whole word
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Сторінка 17 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Сторінка 121 - total stagnation of trade,' alas ! is not that a painful enough 'lying in bed to consider himself?' Poor Bull ! Bull is a born Conservative; for this too I inexpressibly honour him.
Сторінка 282 - Whenever, in any country, the proprietor, generally speaking, ceases to be the improver, political economy has nothing to say in defence of landed property, as there established.
Сторінка 179 - My Lords, if we suffer this Bill to pass we shall not know where to stand, — we shall not know whether we are on our heads or on our feet.
Сторінка 153 - You go with your family, sir, like a gentleman; you are not to consider your opinions, like a philosopher or a political adventurer.' 'Yes, sir,' said Coningsby, with animation, 'but men going with their families like gentlemen, and losing sight of every principle on which the society of this country ought to be established produced the Reform Bill.
Сторінка 67 - My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with rude strength. I will not grudge a competition of the roughest males. Let buffalo gore buffalo, and the pasture to the strongest; for I have work that will require the best will and sinew.
Сторінка 17 - First there was the consciousness of silent endurance, so dear to every Englishman, — of standing out against something, and not giving in. Then there was the music of the rattling harness, and the ring of the horses...
Сторінка 5 - November, a temperature which makes no exhausting demand on human strength, but allows the attainment of the largest stature. Charles the Second said, " It invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.