The National Review, Volume 10W.H. Allen, 1887 - English literature |
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Page 38
... seems to me , indeed , almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of allotments to townspeople , who have not usually the same means as country - people of cultivating simple habits and pleasures , and who , for want of amusement ...
... seems to me , indeed , almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of allotments to townspeople , who have not usually the same means as country - people of cultivating simple habits and pleasures , and who , for want of amusement ...
Page 39
... seems to me extremely inconsistent that Birmingham should have been made the centre of an agrarian agitation , and head - quarters of an association for the extension . of allotments , having the late Mayor as its president , when ...
... seems to me extremely inconsistent that Birmingham should have been made the centre of an agrarian agitation , and head - quarters of an association for the extension . of allotments , having the late Mayor as its president , when ...
Page 43
... seems and wondrous near , And by some nameless difference born anew . V. Peace - peace and rest ! Ah , how the lyre is loth , Or powerless now , to give what all men seek ! Either it deadens with ignoble sloth Or deafens with shrill ...
... seems and wondrous near , And by some nameless difference born anew . V. Peace - peace and rest ! Ah , how the lyre is loth , Or powerless now , to give what all men seek ! Either it deadens with ignoble sloth Or deafens with shrill ...
Page 55
... seems over - sanguine to expect that more than a very small minority of the highest and most unselfish natures will , for a long time , be capable of that perfect altruism , that sympathy for others , at once emotional and rational ...
... seems over - sanguine to expect that more than a very small minority of the highest and most unselfish natures will , for a long time , be capable of that perfect altruism , that sympathy for others , at once emotional and rational ...
Page 56
... seems to have been unknown to the ancients - is no more a sufficient motive to good conduct , than the " mildly bad conscience , " which , as Mr. Morrison says , is aroused by the denun- ciations of their sins , heard by a Christian ...
... seems to have been unknown to the ancients - is no more a sufficient motive to good conduct , than the " mildly bad conscience , " which , as Mr. Morrison says , is aroused by the denun- ciations of their sins , heard by a Christian ...
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