Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 páginas |
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... Bagehot could have written that . Does a wittily turned verse make you hesi- tate between laughter at its hit and grave thought because of its deeper , covert meaning ? Do you not know that only Lowell could do that ? you catch a strain ...
... Bagehot could have written that . Does a wittily turned verse make you hesi- tate between laughter at its hit and grave thought because of its deeper , covert meaning ? Do you not know that only Lowell could do that ? you catch a strain ...
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... Bagehot , " for no one expects that they will go out and act on them . They are a kind of ticket - of- leave lunatics , from whom no harm is for the mo- ment expected ; who seem quiet , but on whose vagaries a practical public must have ...
... Bagehot , " for no one expects that they will go out and act on them . They are a kind of ticket - of- leave lunatics , from whom no harm is for the mo- ment expected ; who seem quiet , but on whose vagaries a practical public must have ...
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... Bagehot is a name known to not a few of those who have a zest for the juiciest things of literature , for the wit ... Bagehot to men who have not read him ! To ask your friend to know Bagehot is like inviting him to seek pleasure ...
... Bagehot is a name known to not a few of those who have a zest for the juiciest things of literature , for the wit ... Bagehot to men who have not read him ! To ask your friend to know Bagehot is like inviting him to seek pleasure ...
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... Bagehot died he " carried away into the next world more originality of thought than is now to be found in the three Estates of the Realm . " An epitome of Bagehot's life can be given very briefly . He was born in February , 1826 , and ...
... Bagehot died he " carried away into the next world more originality of thought than is now to be found in the three Estates of the Realm . " An epitome of Bagehot's life can be given very briefly . He was born in February , 1826 , and ...
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... Bagehot did , to make them give forth light and wholesome heat . He set the minds of a few fortunate friends aglow with the delights of the very wonderful tongue which nature had given him through his mother . And then he died , while ...
... Bagehot did , to make them give forth light and wholesome heat . He set the minds of a few fortunate friends aglow with the delights of the very wonderful tongue which nature had given him through his mother . And then he died , while ...
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Página 143 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 238 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Página 145 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 147 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Página 148 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Página 153 - We see that the parts of the system do not clash. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. One advantage is as little as possible sacrificed to another. We compensate, we reconcile, we balance. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. From hence arises, not an excellence in simplicity, but, one far superior, an excellence in composition.
Página 106 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 147 - Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire by a unity of spirit, though in a diversity of operations, that, if I were sure the colonists had, at their leaving this country, sealed a regular compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their posterity to all generations, yet I should hold myself obliged to conform to the temper I found...
Página 146 - I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict; and still less in the midst of it. I may escape ; but I can make no insurance against such an event. Let me add, that I do not choose wholly to break the American spirit; because it is the spirit that has made the country.
Página 133 - Now we who know Mr. Burke, know, that he will be one of the first men in the country.