| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...solemn reverence the habit of our lives, power and property should acknowledge that labour is their twin brother, and that the essence of all tenure is the performance of duty." Even for the defence of a country by military measures, men of the monastic state, compelled by the... | |
| 1863 - 394 pages
...to erect a superstructure of greatness, such as can only be raised when ' Property shall acknowledge as in the old days of Faith, that Labour is his twin brother, and that the essence of tenure is the performance of duty.' Let us lay aside our selfishness and learn to care for one another... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1866 - 730 pages
...property acknowledging, as in ] the old days of faith, that labour is his twin brother, and that the f essence of all tenure is the performance of duty ; let results such f as these be brought about, and let me participate, however feebly, / in the great fulfilment, and... | |
| 1868 - 970 pages
...prefer fame to life ; and yet the consciousness of heroic deeds to the most widespread celebrity." " Let me see authority once more honoured ; a solemn...essence of all tenure is the performance of duty ; let reforms such as these be brought about, and let me participate, however feebly, in the great fulfilment,... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 498 pages
...have turned out the Whigs, what then ? You may get your ducal coronet, sir. But a duke now is not so great a man as a baron was but a century back. We...participate, however feebly, in the great fulfilment, aiid public life then indeed becomes a noble career, and a seat in Parliament an enviable distinction.'... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 590 pages
...look upon the termination of its abeyance in my favour as the act of my political extinction. W, hat we want, sir, is not to fashion new dukes and furbish...public life then indeed becomes a noble career, and a scat in Parliament an enviable distinction.' 'I tell you what it is, Harry,' said Lord Monmonth, very... | |
| David Oedipus (pseud.) - 1881 - 222 pages
...by paying tribute ? " ' —P. 297. This reads . like a passage from Bolingbroke or old Hobbes. ' " Let me see authority once more honoured ; a solemn...and a seat in Parliament an enviable distinction." ' —P. 299. This is a very pretty and all but perfect sketch of Absolutism and Sacerdotalism combined.... | |
| Moritz Kaufmann - Authors, English - 1892 - 268 pages
..." Let me see property acknowledging, as in the old time of faith, that labour is its twin-brother, and that the essence of all tenure is the performance of duty," says Coningsby. That duty consists in paying better wages, giving better homes, and holding out better... | |
| E. T. Raymond - Great Britain - 1925 - 370 pages
...solemn reverence again the habit of our lives ; let me see property acknowledging, as in the days of old faith, that labour is his twin brother, and that the...essence of all tenure is the performance of duty. Like the early French Romantics the Young Englanders placed their faith in Throne and Altar. But the... | |
| Paul Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 266 pages
...Disraeli and Young England have educated the higher classes to their social responsibilities and they find 'property acknowledging as in the old days of faith,...essence of all tenure is the performance of duty', as Coningsby puts it, to Lord Monmouth's signal distaste. Then they can be winched up the scale of... | |
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