An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1872 - 379 páginas |
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... a manner . It is true that I do think that this terrible cata- clysm , if I may be allowed to use a fine word which does not express my meaning or any meaning at many all - I say , for it is necessary 2 TO MY READERS .
... a manner . It is true that I do think that this terrible cata- clysm , if I may be allowed to use a fine word which does not express my meaning or any meaning at many all - I say , for it is necessary 2 TO MY READERS .
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... true facts put in a false light . I might go on to mention various books of this kind , and I might even tell their names , if I were spiteful enough and if I did not think more of doing good myself than exposing those who do harm . But ...
... true facts put in a false light . I might go on to mention various books of this kind , and I might even tell their names , if I were spiteful enough and if I did not think more of doing good myself than exposing those who do harm . But ...
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... way as will never be done again . My little book is not a novel , though it is as true as the best novel . It contains a little about a great many things , and C therein differs from those books which contain a great deal TO MY READERS .
... way as will never be done again . My little book is not a novel , though it is as true as the best novel . It contains a little about a great many things , and C therein differs from those books which contain a great deal TO MY READERS .
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... true causes are followed by effects , then the . publishers would have an easy time of it and all authors would be as rich as some are . As this is not so , writing is not a true cause nor reading a true effect of writing , but they ...
... true causes are followed by effects , then the . publishers would have an easy time of it and all authors would be as rich as some are . As this is not so , writing is not a true cause nor reading a true effect of writing , but they ...
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... true , and the same remark applies to all general rules about human life . Perhaps the world is not growing better at the same time that it is growing richer , for in my own experience I never yet knew a man who had raised himself in ...
... true , and the same remark applies to all general rules about human life . Perhaps the world is not growing better at the same time that it is growing richer , for in my own experience I never yet knew a man who had raised himself in ...
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Página 348 - subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.
Página 348 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 302 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the...
Página 208 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?
Página 379 - The author is a shrewd, clever old gentleman, well informed, and one who has certainly not spent his long life to disadvantage. The range of subjects about which he thinks is very large, and what he does say is of sterling quality.
Página 277 - That the National Religion of the country should be made the foundation of national education, which should be the first and chief thing taught to the Poor, according to the excellent Liturgy and Catechism provided by our Church for that purpose.
Página 349 - While the demand for labour and the price of provisions, therefore, remain the same, a direct tax upon the wages of labour can have no other effect than to raise them somewhat higher than the tax.
Página 324 - Your breakfast is prepared by a cook or a goodwife who is clad from the soles of her feet to the top of her head in taxed clothing.
Página 264 - But when things are matter of public concern, the discipline pertaining to them must also be matter of public concern ; and we must not consider any citizen as belonging to himself, but all as belonging to the state ; for each is a part of the state, and the superintendence of each part has naturally a reference to the superintendence of the whole.
Página 90 - ... Paul's, there will be an enormous quantity of old stone to dispose of, which is now in the shape of generals, captains, admirals, lions and other animals. "It is singular, or it is not singular, I can't say which, that we who box, wrestle, run and in many ways work our bodies, more than any other nation, have not employed our sculptors to immortalize our athletic heroes. Some of them would make good subjects for the artist. He might strip the boxer or runner naked, if he liked, and exhibit his...