Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures, Delivered in 1864-1868,Millar, 1884 - 158 páginas |
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... England , so far as my poor words might have any power with them , to take some thought of the purposes of the life into which they are entering , and the nature of the world they have to conquer . These two lectures are fragmentary and ...
... England , so far as my poor words might have any power with them , to take some thought of the purposes of the life into which they are entering , and the nature of the world they have to conquer . These two lectures are fragmentary and ...
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... England signs of our besetting sins appearing also . Paint and chignons , slang and vaudevilles , knowing Anonymas ' by name , and reading doubtfully moral novels , are in themselves small offences , although not many years ago they ...
... England signs of our besetting sins appearing also . Paint and chignons , slang and vaudevilles , knowing Anonymas ' by name , and reading doubtfully moral novels , are in themselves small offences , although not many years ago they ...
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... England at this day ; -sensation which spends itself in bouquets and speeches ; in revellings and junketings ; in sham fights and gay puppet shows , while you can look on and see noble nations murdered , man by man , woman by woman ...
... England at this day ; -sensation which spends itself in bouquets and speeches ; in revellings and junketings ; in sham fights and gay puppet shows , while you can look on and see noble nations murdered , man by man , woman by woman ...
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... England , if it could be carried , that maximum limits should be assigned to in- comes , according to classes ; and that every nobleman's income should be paid to him as a fixed salary or pension by the nation and not squeezed by him in ...
... England , if it could be carried , that maximum limits should be assigned to in- comes , according to classes ; and that every nobleman's income should be paid to him as a fixed salary or pension by the nation and not squeezed by him in ...
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... England that you have not filled with bellowing fire ; there is no particle left of English land which you have not trampled coal ashes into -- nor any foreign city in which the spread of your presence is not marked among its fair old ...
... England that you have not filled with bellowing fire ; there is no particle left of English land which you have not trampled coal ashes into -- nor any foreign city in which the spread of your presence is not marked among its fair old ...
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Página 16 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Página 103 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
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Página 57 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Página 11 - And, therefore, first of all, I tell you earnestly and authoritatively (I know I am right in this), you must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter.
Página 39 - Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the ONLY morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, 'What do you like?' Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.
Página 12 - ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly 'illiterate...
Página 38 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Página 58 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle - and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision.
Página 60 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.