The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 165A. Constable, 1887 |
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... give it . ' The peasant proprietor is the spoilt child of theorists ; his artificial creation by the stroke of a pen is the favourite panacea of a large section of land reformers . Towards this end , in one shape or another , all ...
... give it . ' The peasant proprietor is the spoilt child of theorists ; his artificial creation by the stroke of a pen is the favourite panacea of a large section of land reformers . Towards this end , in one shape or another , all ...
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... give land a fancy value . In Cheshire , during the French war , agricultural land fetched as much as forty years ' purchase . It was manifestly the interest of small freeholders to sell their properties , the size of which prevented ...
... give land a fancy value . In Cheshire , during the French war , agricultural land fetched as much as forty years ' purchase . It was manifestly the interest of small freeholders to sell their properties , the size of which prevented ...
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... gives no security whatever to sitting tenants against a rise of rent based upon their improvements . If they refuse the rise ... give tenants every necessary security and inducement for skilful and liberal farm management . But , even if ...
... gives no security whatever to sitting tenants against a rise of rent based upon their improvements . If they refuse the rise ... give tenants every necessary security and inducement for skilful and liberal farm management . But , even if ...
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... give that stimulus to farming on which regular employment depends . But the ' wet and dry ' man is always on the verge of pauperism . No remedy can secure him those permanent wages which , as a rule , he is not sufficiently skilful to ...
... give that stimulus to farming on which regular employment depends . But the ' wet and dry ' man is always on the verge of pauperism . No remedy can secure him those permanent wages which , as a rule , he is not sufficiently skilful to ...
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... give one a glimpse of the iniquities of the Upper Ten , told in thirty- two pages of small print , and adorned with two grim , but startling woodcuts . Of this dainty production a brief sketch * Many of these command , it is said , a ...
... give one a glimpse of the iniquities of the Upper Ten , told in thirty- two pages of small print , and adorned with two grim , but startling woodcuts . Of this dainty production a brief sketch * Many of these command , it is said , a ...
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Page 118 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Page 97 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable.
Page 530 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which •would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...
Page 524 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Page 101 - ... how absolutely universal is the extent and at the same time how completely subordinate the significance, of the mission which mechanism has to fulfil in the structure of the world.
Page 248 - It was an age of valetudinarians, in many instances of imaginary ones ; but below its various crazes concerning health and disease, largely multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief that all the maladies of the soul might be reached through the subtle gateways of the body.
Page 363 - I have only zeal and good intentions to bring to this work ; I can have no merit in it, that must all belong to Mr Sadler. It seems no one else will undertake it, so I will ; and, without cant or hypocrisy, which I hate, I assure you I dare not refuse the request you have so earnestly pressed. I believe it is my duty to God and to the poor, and I trust He will support me. Talk of trouble! what do we come to parliament for?
Page 522 - God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at, is happiness in union with himself.
Page 139 - Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld.
Page 92 - He was 40 yeares old before he looked on Geometry ; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's Library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri i. He read the Proposition. By G — , sayd he (he would now and then sweare an emphaticall Oath by way of emphasis) this is impossible...