The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and ArtLeavitt, Trow, & Company, 1904 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 16
... common talk and in partisan speeches , " says Mr. Morley , " the Prime Minister was regarded as dictatorial The and imperious . complaint of some , at least , among his colleagues in the Cabinet of 1880 was rather that Almost he was not ...
... common talk and in partisan speeches , " says Mr. Morley , " the Prime Minister was regarded as dictatorial The and imperious . complaint of some , at least , among his colleagues in the Cabinet of 1880 was rather that Almost he was not ...
Page 29
... common standard . At his doorstep , though , lay the frontier of little things ; he was something beyond us all , and therefore greater or less than we . The mere pictorial value of his tall figure , the dignity of his long , forked ...
... common standard . At his doorstep , though , lay the frontier of little things ; he was something beyond us all , and therefore greater or less than we . The mere pictorial value of his tall figure , the dignity of his long , forked ...
Page 47
... common law , which is still our best inheritance , and ( what is left of it ) our noblest contribution to the civilization of the West , was sound as a bell on the subject of education - sound , that is to say , so far as it went . By ...
... common law , which is still our best inheritance , and ( what is left of it ) our noblest contribution to the civilization of the West , was sound as a bell on the subject of education - sound , that is to say , so far as it went . By ...
Page 48
... common law which we have seen destroyed by stat- ute , was more apparent than real . As soon as the Lollards , our first Dissent- ers , appeared , toleration disappeared . To have expected Queen Elizabeth to allow a Popish recusant to ...
... common law which we have seen destroyed by stat- ute , was more apparent than real . As soon as the Lollards , our first Dissent- ers , appeared , toleration disappeared . To have expected Queen Elizabeth to allow a Popish recusant to ...
Page 49
... common law made for free- dom rather than for what is now called culture . Whilst allowing anybody to teach , it did not require anybody to be taught . There was no duty on a parent , at common law , to educate his offspring in either ...
... common law made for free- dom rather than for what is now called culture . Whilst allowing anybody to teach , it did not require anybody to be taught . There was no duty on a parent , at common law , to educate his offspring in either ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American beautiful believe better British called century character Charles Dickens China Christian Church Colombia course death Dickens doubt election Elizabeth Elstob England English Eugène Sue eyes fact feel foreign French George Gissing give Gladstone Government hand Hookby human idea interest Japan Japanese labor lady land least less literary lived look Lord Lord Salisbury magpie Manchuria Mario matter ment mind modern moral nation nature ness never Non Expedit novel once Panama party passed perhaps political Pope Leo XIII Port Arthur present question race round Russia seems sense side sion Slav social society spirit stand story street tain Tammany Thackeray things thought tion to-day took town trade ture turn village Voltaire Whistler whole words write Yellow Peril
Popular passages
Page 336 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 336 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 335 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 734 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Page 429 - The government of New Granada guarantees to the government of the United States that, the right of way or transit across the Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the government and citizens of the United States...
Page 48 - Stout Skippon hath a wound ; the centre hath given ground : Hark ! hark ! — What means the trampling of horsemen on our rear ? Whose banner do I see, boys ? Tis he, thank God, 'tis he, boys. Bear up another minute : brave Oliver is here.
Page 172 - with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!' 'Yes, we have fallen off deplorably,
Page 251 - ... rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity, — as long as these endure so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together ; the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity ; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be, Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet ; imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Page 177 - Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only - spontaneous combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
Page 47 - Provided always, that every man or woman, of what estate or condition that he be, shall be free to set their son or daughter to take learning at any manner school that pleaseth them within the Realm.