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... directions in regard to the disposal of their affairs , or fail to conduct themselves with resignation . . . . A gallant officer said to me , ' You see I am posting to the other world , and you cannot prevent it , but I am as easy as if ...
... directions in regard to the disposal of their affairs , or fail to conduct themselves with resignation . . . . A gallant officer said to me , ' You see I am posting to the other world , and you cannot prevent it , but I am as easy as if ...
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... directions , and capriciously ignored or denied in others . Most people believe in the expediency of train- ing up a child in the way he should go , and no one doubts that a better result will arise from this process than from the ...
... directions , and capriciously ignored or denied in others . Most people believe in the expediency of train- ing up a child in the way he should go , and no one doubts that a better result will arise from this process than from the ...
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... directions , and according to its simple impulse ; but it acted forcibly and immediately on mankind and on societies . " No society can be governed by ideas that are foreign to it , or which it is wholly unable to understand ; hence a ...
... directions , and according to its simple impulse ; but it acted forcibly and immediately on mankind and on societies . " No society can be governed by ideas that are foreign to it , or which it is wholly unable to understand ; hence a ...
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... directions that are good . The man of one habit or of few habits is a slave to them : freedom demands variety , and all the institutions and arrangements of society should be brought to this test , and questioned whether they permit ...
... directions that are good . The man of one habit or of few habits is a slave to them : freedom demands variety , and all the institutions and arrangements of society should be brought to this test , and questioned whether they permit ...
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... directions bounded by law , and the great object of a rational community is to set up or tolerate as few of these boundaries as pos- sible , and only where they can be plainly proved to prevent a considerable amount less evil than they ...
... directions bounded by law , and the great object of a rational community is to set up or tolerate as few of these boundaries as pos- sible , and only where they can be plainly proved to prevent a considerable amount less evil than they ...
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Page 87 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Page 109 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 74 - ... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 157 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 4 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 238 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 165 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 47 - In the final, the positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after Absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, — that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance.
Page 22 - Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Page 46 - ... who had merely adopted the commonplaces of received opinion, that he did not understand the subject — that he as yet attached no definite meaning to the doctrines he professed ; in order that, becoming aware of his ignorance, he might be put in the way to attain a stable belief, resting on a clear apprehension both of the meaning of doctrines and of their evidence.