Orations, Addresses and Club EssaysRand McNally & Company, 1895 - 400 páginas |
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... political preferment - Wrote under assumed names that his political aspirations might not be in- jured - Cecil acquainted with both declares Shakespeare incom- petent and Bacon most competent to produce the plays - Donnel- ley's ...
... political preferment - Wrote under assumed names that his political aspirations might not be in- jured - Cecil acquainted with both declares Shakespeare incom- petent and Bacon most competent to produce the plays - Donnel- ley's ...
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... official positions - Almost a disgrace to be a legislator or a congressman -The best citizens no longer in politics - A civil service based on intellectual , moral and physical qualifications , save for president 8 CONTENTS .
... official positions - Almost a disgrace to be a legislator or a congressman -The best citizens no longer in politics - A civil service based on intellectual , moral and physical qualifications , save for president 8 CONTENTS .
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... POLITICS . ... 184 An essay read before the Authors ' Club , Springfield , Illinois , December 17 , 1883 . Science in ... Political science feeds upon the aggregate wisdom of the race - Represents triumph of mind and soul over matter and ...
... POLITICS . ... 184 An essay read before the Authors ' Club , Springfield , Illinois , December 17 , 1883 . Science in ... Political science feeds upon the aggregate wisdom of the race - Represents triumph of mind and soul over matter and ...
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... political power of the townships and regulated industries of citizens and protected them from illegal and unjust exactions from kings and barons - Frith guild first composed of family , then blood rela- tives , then neighbors , then ...
... political power of the townships and regulated industries of citizens and protected them from illegal and unjust exactions from kings and barons - Frith guild first composed of family , then blood rela- tives , then neighbors , then ...
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... political rulers , members of the guilds became subjects -Parish system for the distributing charities and care of the poor -All classes had representatives in parliament - The laborers seldom - Conflicts were settled in the guilds ...
... political rulers , members of the guilds became subjects -Parish system for the distributing charities and care of the poor -All classes had representatives in parliament - The laborers seldom - Conflicts were settled in the guilds ...
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Aeschylus American Railway Union armies attainments Bacon says beauty believe Ben Jonson called century character Christian church civil claimed commenced court culture death divine doctrine dramatic Dutch Republics earth effort Elizabethan era England exalted experience expression faith father favorable forces form of government Francis Bacon friends genius Gray's Inn Greek guilds honor human individual influence intellectual interests king labor land language literary literature live London Lord matter ment military mind moral nation nature never noble patriotism philosopher plays political possession practice present priesthood priests principles Puritan Quakers race religion religious republic Richard Grant White Roman rule Russia Russian Saint Albans Shakespeare says soul spirit sympathy teacher theater theory thought Timon of Athens tion to-day trade true truth vast Victor Hugo wealth William Penn William Shakespeare wonderful words worship write
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Página 142 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 28 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Página 199 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory— when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption,— barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Página 139 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Página 150 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Página 150 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 154 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Página 139 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 152 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Página 154 - ... accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day...