The Works of Lord Morley, Band 15Macmillan and Company, limited, 1921 |
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... observation , if what strikes him most in all these scenes of social activity is , not the devotion and the public spirit and the sacrifice of time and ease , but the play of sordid motives . In truth , this piece of disparagement , as ...
... observation , if what strikes him most in all these scenes of social activity is , not the devotion and the public spirit and the sacrifice of time and ease , but the play of sordid motives . In truth , this piece of disparagement , as ...
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... observations of originality and value to the stock of political thought . To set people thinking at all on the more general and abstract truths of the great subject that is commonly left to be handled lightly , unsystematically , frag ...
... observations of originality and value to the stock of political thought . To set people thinking at all on the more general and abstract truths of the great subject that is commonly left to be handled lightly , unsystematically , frag ...
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... observations , the author , a writer of highly approved competence , asks whether the ideals of the reforming era have lost their efficacy . Have its watchwords ceased to move , is it not true that even the old idols of theatre and ...
... observations , the author , a writer of highly approved competence , asks whether the ideals of the reforming era have lost their efficacy . Have its watchwords ceased to move , is it not true that even the old idols of theatre and ...
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... observation into a single saying . It is the very opposite of dissertation and declamation ; its distinction is not so much ingenuity , as good sense brought to a point ; it ought to be neither enigmatical nor flat , neither a truism on ...
... observation into a single saying . It is the very opposite of dissertation and declamation ; its distinction is not so much ingenuity , as good sense brought to a point ; it ought to be neither enigmatical nor flat , neither a truism on ...
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... observation . Then there is none of the ancient moralists to whom the modern , from Montaigne , Charron , Raleigh , Bacon , downwards , owe more than to Seneca . Seneca has no spark of the kindly warmth of Horace ; he has not the ...
... observation . Then there is none of the ancient moralists to whom the modern , from Montaigne , Charron , Raleigh , Bacon , downwards , owe more than to Seneca . Seneca has no spark of the kindly warmth of Horace ; he has not the ...
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Seite 191 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very * first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke, and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 20 - All the grand sources, in short, of human suffering are in a great degree, many of them almost entirely, conquerable by human care and effort; and though their removal is grievously slow— though a long succession of generations will perish in the breach before the conquest is completed, and this world becomes all that, if will and knowledge were not wanting, it might easily be...
Seite 20 - ... succession of generations will perish in the breach before the conquest is completed, and this world becomes all that, if will and knowledge were not wanting, it might easily be made — yet every mind sufficiently intelligent and generous to bear a part, however small and unconspicuous, in the endeavour, will draw a noble enjoyment from the contest itself, which he would not for any bribe in the form of selfish indulgence consent to be without.
Seite 218 - The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions, — each branch of our knowledge, — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
Seite 5 - My father's moral inculcations were at all times mainly those of the " Socratici viri;" justice, temperance (to which he gave a very extended application), veracity, perseverance, readiness to encounter pain and especially labour; regard for the public good; estimation of persons according to their merits, and of things according to their intrinsic usefulness; a life of exertion in contradiction to one of selfindulgent ease and sloth.
Seite 7 - In an improving state of the human mind, the influences are constantly on the increase, which tend to generate in each individual a feeling of unity with all the rest ; which feeling, if perfect, would make him never think of, or desire, any beneficial condition for himself, in the benefits of which they are not included.
Seite 192 - He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, what1 ever obstacles opposed.
Seite 47 - That in the opinion of this House it is the duty of the Government in all Government contracts to make provision against the evils recently disclosed before the Sweating Committee, to insert such conditions as may prevent the abuse arising from sub-letting, and to make every effort to secure the payment of such wages as are generally accepted as current in each trade for competent workmen.
Seite 7 - Not only does all strengthening of social ties, and all healthy growth of society, give to each individual a stronger personal interest in practically consulting the welfare of others; it also leads him to identify his feelings more and more with their good, or at least with an even greater degree of practical consideration for it.
Seite 188 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.