The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: Essays and miscellany. 1890

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History Company, 1890

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Сторінка 285 - It is the most transcendent privilege which any subject can enjoy or wish for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, his liberty, or his person, but by the unanimous consent of twelve of his neighbors and equals.
Сторінка 147 - tis the best you get at all; For God, in curaing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says " Sweat For foreheads;" men say "crowns "; and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel Which snaps with a secret spring. Get work; get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
Сторінка 79 - The thing I want to see is not Redbook Lists, and Court Calendars, and Parliamentary Registers, but the LIFE OF MAN in England: what men did, thought, suffered, enjoyed; the form, especially the spirit, of their terrestrial existence, its outward environment, its inward principle; how and what it was; whence it proceeded, whither it was tending. Mournful, in truth, is it to behold what the business called ' History,' in these so enlightened and illuminated times, still continues to be.
Сторінка 675 - Mind, the ruling power, persuaded necessity to bring the greater part of created things to perfection, and thus and after this manner in the beginning, when the influence of reason got the better of necessity, the universe was created.
Сторінка 682 - Who knows exactly, and who shall in this world declare, whence and why this creation took place ? The gods are subsequent to the production of this world: then who can know whence it proceeded ? or whence this varied world arose ? or whether it uphold [itself], or not ? He who, in the highest heaven, is the ruler of this universe, does indeed know; but not another can possess that knowledge.
Сторінка 174 - O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner...
Сторінка 113 - Concerning the Gods) with the words, ' Respecting the gods, I am unable to know whether they exist or do not exist.
Сторінка 692 - Gods, children of gods, who are my works, and of whom I am the artificer and father, my creations are indissoluble, if so I will. All that is bound may be undone, but only an evil being would wish to undo that which is harmonious and happy.
Сторінка 711 - God, he must devise some explanation of them such as we are seeking; he must say that God did what was just and right, and they were the better for being punished...
Сторінка 470 - ... people and productions a warm sympathy has always existed, and whose language found ready learners from its similarity to the Spanish. The backward condition of literature can be readily understood when it is learned that the printing press was not introduced at Guatemala until 1660, when Joseph do Pineda Ibarra figures as the first printer.' The first publication is said to have been a letter by President Caldas to the king concerning the conquest of the Lacandon country ; but the claim to be...

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