Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volum 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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Pàgina 4
... become unnecessary , they cast about for occupation . The new order of things has none to give them of a noble kind , and in despair they fling themselves into the past . They see in the old world what the modern world fails to provide ...
... become unnecessary , they cast about for occupation . The new order of things has none to give them of a noble kind , and in despair they fling themselves into the past . They see in the old world what the modern world fails to provide ...
Pàgina 8
... become one . Offa was no sooner in the saddle than he began to extend his borders at the expense of his neighbours , fell into cor- respondence with Charlemagne - aspired , perhaps , to imi- tate Charlemagne on a smaller scale , and become ...
... become one . Offa was no sooner in the saddle than he began to extend his borders at the expense of his neighbours , fell into cor- respondence with Charlemagne - aspired , perhaps , to imi- tate Charlemagne on a smaller scale , and become ...
Pàgina 16
... become Danish , and other fleets of Danes were going and coming . The abbot had reason to expect that a troop of them were about to visit St. Alban's , and , in resentment at the trick which had been played upon their country- men ...
... become Danish , and other fleets of Danes were going and coming . The abbot had reason to expect that a troop of them were about to visit St. Alban's , and , in resentment at the trick which had been played upon their country- men ...
Pàgina 20
... become strong , has thriven only because it had life in it -- and the question which we ought to ask of any organised sytsem , political or spiritual , is not whether it is good or evil , but whether it is alive or dead . If it is alive ...
... become strong , has thriven only because it had life in it -- and the question which we ought to ask of any organised sytsem , political or spiritual , is not whether it is good or evil , but whether it is alive or dead . If it is alive ...
Pàgina 22
... become a second nature was at an end . No pleasant lying in bed was allowed any longer in the mornings ; no meat dinners upon fasting days ; no retirement under pretence of sickness to the in- dulgence of the infirmary ; no agreeable ...
... become a second nature was at an end . No pleasant lying in bed was allowed any longer in the mornings ; no meat dinners upon fasting days ; no retirement under pretence of sickness to the in- dulgence of the infirmary ; no agreeable ...
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