The Living Age, Volume 263Living Age Company, 1909 |
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... seems odd that Mr. Müller does not see that it gives away the whole case for unrestricted and un- limited ... seem to me to contain the kernel 8 Darwinism and Politics .
... seems odd that Mr. Müller does not see that it gives away the whole case for unrestricted and un- limited ... seem to me to contain the kernel 8 Darwinism and Politics .
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some sentences which seem to me to contain the kernel of the argument . " Hard as it seems for modern phi- losophers to understand this , it was one of the first truths that dawned upon the incipient mind of man . Con- sciously or ...
some sentences which seem to me to contain the kernel of the argument . " Hard as it seems for modern phi- losophers to understand this , it was one of the first truths that dawned upon the incipient mind of man . Con- sciously or ...
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... seems to me to offer the strongest possible opposition to it . " All this tale of achievement , " says Mr. Müller , " is the result of a struggle . " Yes ; but it is the result of a struggle against the tryanny of ad- verse physical and ...
... seems to me to offer the strongest possible opposition to it . " All this tale of achievement , " says Mr. Müller , " is the result of a struggle . " Yes ; but it is the result of a struggle against the tryanny of ad- verse physical and ...
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... seems to have vanished . For the meantime , the throne seems safe , once more the dynasty ( that lost the colonies ) is saved , but without honor . It now remains upon proba- tion , and mostly by the fact that there are no Republicans ...
... seems to have vanished . For the meantime , the throne seems safe , once more the dynasty ( that lost the colonies ) is saved , but without honor . It now remains upon proba- tion , and mostly by the fact that there are no Republicans ...
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... seems I've fallen between two stools . You were away , but a man upon the spot , as I was , and with my tom - toe in a vice , and in such agony that I signed anything that that villain Stuart put before me- They acted without my ...
... seems I've fallen between two stools . You were away , but a man upon the spot , as I was , and with my tom - toe in a vice , and in such agony that I signed anything that that villain Stuart put before me- They acted without my ...
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Page 162 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 483 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Page 614 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 481 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 229 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Page 294 - They precisely suit my taste, - solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of.
Page 163 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
Page 530 - ... their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of longstanding facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning elements, not towards final causes, the greatness and littleness of man, his farreaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success...
Page 162 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Page 635 - Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!