Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life, Том 1

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T. F. Unwin, 1893
 

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Стр. 137 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Стр. 259 - Thus in the faiths old Heathendom that shook Were different powers of strife; Mohammed's truth lay in a holy Book, Christ's in a sacred Life. So, while the world rolls on from change to change And realms of thought expand, The Letter stands without expanse or range, Stiff as a dead man's hand...
Стр. 5 - the worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Стр. 37 - And as I thought rose the sonorous swell, As from some church-tower swings the silvery bell. Aloft and clear, from airy tide to tide, It glided, easy as a bird may glide ; To the last verge of that vast audience...
Стр. 264 - Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds : You can't do that way when you're flying words. " Careful with fire," is good advice, we know : " Careful with words,
Стр. 225 - Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, KINDNESS in another's trouble, COURAGE in your own.
Стр. 37 - E'en to the centre of the hosts around ; And, as I thought, rose the sonorous swell, As from some church-tower swings the silvery bell ; Aloft and clear from airy tide to tide It glided easy, as a bird may glide. To the last verge of that vast audience sent, It played with each wild passion as it went : Now stirred the uproar — now the murmurs stilled, And sobs or laughter answered as it willed.
Стр. 49 - Theirs is not that twilight of political knowledge which gives us just light enough to place one foot before the other; as they advance the scene still opens upon them, and they press right onward with a vast and various landscape of existence around them.
Стр. 114 - ... political dispute, and the circles in which it is indulged. To the utmost of the little ability I have, it is my desire to inform, with the hopes of benefiting mankind ; and this end cannot be attained by making them angry. In action, heart, and principle, I am, or would become, the friend of man. The only enemy I encounter is error ; and that with no weapon but words : my constant theme has been, let it be taught, not whipped.
Стр. 83 - ... persons to desist from participating in torch-light meetings. The chasm between the workingmen and the middle class became ever wider. If a workingman failed to abuse the middle class, he was himself vilified and denounced. The bearing of arms became more general. Holyoake witnessed in Birmingham that those who had no better weapons " sharpened an old file and stuck it in a...

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