The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Band 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 1412 Seiten The volumes include essays on aspects of English history and contain Buckle's commonplace books. |
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Seite 117 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Seite 490 - The Rev. Sydney Smith's Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
Seite 350 - The wealth and strength of a country are its population, and the best part of that population are the cultivators of the soil.
Seite xl - ... tendencies had predominated. The first volume — the only one then ready — contained his theory. The histories of Spain and of Scotland were to furnish a portion of the requisite illustrations of the theory, and the remainder were to be drawn from the social condition and intellectual development of Germany on the one hand, and of the United States on the other. For the portion relative to Spain and Scotland he was prepared ; but he held that he was not competent to work out the other without...
Seite 442 - ... every one, however rich he may be, sends away his children into the houses of others, whilst he, in return, receives those of strangers into his own.
Seite 581 - If a man have the misfortune, in the former place, to attach himself to letters, even if he succeeds, I know not with whom he is to live, nor how he is to pass his time in a suitable society. The little company there that is worth conversing with, are cold and unsociable ; or are warmed only by faction and cabal ; so that a man who plays no part in public affairs becomes altogether insignificant ; and, if he is not rich, he becomes even contemptible. Hence that nation are relapsing fast into the...
Seite 206 - But among many other marks of decline, the prevalence of superstition in England prognosticates the fall of philosophy and decay of taste ; and though nobody be more capable than you to revive them, you will probably find a struggle in your first advances.
Seite 575 - Of all the commercial advantages, however, which Scotland has derived from the union with England, this rise in the price of cattle is, perhaps, the greatest. It has not only raised the value of all highland estates, but it has, perhaps, been the principal cause of the improvement of the low country.
Seite 509 - ... and therefore, if a term of one thousand years be limited to A, to the use of (or in trust for) B, the statute does not execute this use, but leaves it as at common law.
Seite 245 - In the present state of knowledge, politics, so far from being a science, is one of the most backward of all the arts; and the only safe course for the legislator is, to look upon his craft as consisting in the adaptation of temporary contrivances to temporary emergencies.408 His business is to follow the age, and not at all to attempt to lead it.