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Página 118 - Freedom of discussion is, then, in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury, consisting of twelve shopkeepers, think it expedient should be said or written.
Página 345 - of the many inconveniences which the French have to suffer from that worship of the great goddess Lubricity to which they are at present vowed. Wealth excites the most savage enmity there, because it is conceived as a means for gratifying appetites of the most selfish and vile kind.
Página 277 - God himself would interfere in the battle by protecting the combatant whose quarrel was rightful against the power and malice of his assailant. So long as this belief prevailed, a duel was...
Página 303 - I even then felt, though without stating it clearly to myself, /the contrast between the frank sociability and amiability of French personal intercourse, and the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else £with few, or no exceptions) was either an enemy or a...
Página 324 - Even to the imaginative, whom Lord John Manners thinks its sure friend, it is more a hindrance than a help. Johnson says well : ' Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 241 - Twill amply suffice for the maid ; Meanwhile I will smoke my canaster, And tipple my ale in the shade.
Página 192 - a Church chooses to have the advantage of an establishment and to hold those privileges which the law confers — that Church, whether it be the Church of Rome, or the Church of England, or the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, must conform to the law.
Página 195 - Mr. Matthew Arnold has told us that in contemporary France, which seems doomed to try every theory of enlightenment by which the fingers may be burned or the house set on fire, the children of the public schools are taught in answer to the question, " Who gives you all these fine things ? " to say, "The State." Ill fares the State in which the parental image is replaced by an abstraction. The answer of the boy of whom I have been speaking would have been in a spirit better for the State and for the...
Página 3 - Keats are sorry for the ill-health that spoiled the latter years of his short life, but they remember with satisfaction that the ethereal poet was once muscular enough to administer " a severe drubbing to a butcher whom he caught beating a little boy, to the enthusiastic admiration of a crowd of bystanders.
Página 350 - the peasants will say of the squire, or, if they include his family, " Ce sont de braves gens,.c'est du bon monde." I know an honest French gentleman and his wife who are always ready with kindness and money when there is any case of real distress, and I do not believe that there is any country in the world where they would be more esteemed than they are in their own neighbourhood. Absence of I have never known, in France, anything like the in France.