Letters and Other Writings of the Late Edward Denison: M.P. for Newark

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R. Bentley, 1872 - 257 páginas
 

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Página 50 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company ; and faces are but a gallery of pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 203 - Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before ? Who calls the council, states the certain day, Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
Página ix - So here shall silence guard thy fame But somewhere, out of human view, Whate'er thy hands are set to do Is wrought with tumult of acclaim.
Página 235 - Wales, upon trust to the intent the same shall be used and employed for the keeping, correcting, and setting to work of the said rogues, vagabonds, sturdy beggars, and other idle and disorderly persons.
Página 45 - ... the tree ; but if it were of anything like common occurrence, the destitution and disease of this city would be kept within quite manageable limits. And this will take place. I may not live to see it, but it will be within two generations. For, unfortunately, this amount of change may be effected without the least improvement in the spiritual condition of the people. Good laws, energetically enforced, with compulsory education, supplemented by gratuitous individual exertion (which will then have...
Página 65 - The problems of the time are social, and to social problems must the mind of the Legislature be bent for some time to come. We are feeling the sort of discomfort which may afflict the crab whose shell has got too tight for him, and which he is about to split and cast off preparatory to clothing himself with a new one.
Página 58 - My wits are getting blunted by the monotony and ugliness of this place. I can almost imagine — difficult as it is — the awful effect upon a human mind of never seeing anything but the meanest and vilest of men and man's works, and of complete exclusion from the sight of God and his works...
Página 44 - The people," he elsewhere says, " create their destitution and their disease. Probably there are hardly any of the most needy who, if they had been only moderately frugal and provident, could not have placed themselves in a position to tide over the > occasional months of want of work, or of sickness, which there always must be...
Página 32 - He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn : # the Lord shall have them in derison. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, * and vex them in his sore displeasure : Yet have I set my King * upon my holy hill of Sion.
Página 228 - ... every person wandering abroad, or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, court, or passage, to beg or gather alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person...

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