Liberty Review: A Magazine of Politics, Economics, and Sociology..., Volume 181905 |
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Page 187 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods...
Page 88 - The easiest thing in nature ! — nothing easier ! Stick to your present practice : follow it up In your new calling. Mangle, mince and mash, Confound and hack, and jumble things together ! And interlard your rhetoric with lumps Of mawkish sweet, and greasy flattery.
Page 135 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave! For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave...
Page 221 - I ever suffer any of that family, or of any other whatsoever, to be king in Rome. Ye Gods, I call you to witness this my oath...
Page 135 - Name and deed alike are lost: Not a pillar nor a post In his Croisic keeps alive the feat as it befell; Not a head in white and black On a single...
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Page 268 - George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second ; And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third ? When from earth the Fourth descended God be praised, the Georges ended ! WS Landor.
Page 34 - I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative!
Page 158 - Yet the assistance of law may be needed to give effect to this opinion, because, — in the words of the great man who was now preparing the exposition of political economy that was to reign all through the next generation, — only law can afford to every individual a guarantee that his competitors will pursue the same course as to hours of labour and so forth, without which he cannot safely adopt it himself.
Page 232 - The fate of nations is still decided by their wars. You may talk of orderly tribunals and learned referees; you may sing in your schools the gentle praises of the quiet life ; you may strike from your books the last note of every martial anthem, and yet out in the smoke and thunder will always be the tramp of horses and the silent, rigid, upturned face. Men may prophesy and women pray, but peace will come here to...