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... less than the " three weak monarchs . " Goldsmith , who seems instinctively to have apprehended the conditions of change in Europe , predicted also with perfect accuracy that Sweden was hastening on to despotism ; that the German Empire ...
... less than the " three weak monarchs . " Goldsmith , who seems instinctively to have apprehended the conditions of change in Europe , predicted also with perfect accuracy that Sweden was hastening on to despotism ; that the German Empire ...
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... less averted - by any sacrifice or statesmanship . One or two simple instances will explain why men should be indisposed to work for a distant object . The increase of the coloured population in the Southern States of the American Union ...
... less averted - by any sacrifice or statesmanship . One or two simple instances will explain why men should be indisposed to work for a distant object . The increase of the coloured population in the Southern States of the American Union ...
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... less , there does seem to be a natural antagonism between aristocracies of privilege or wealth and an industrial society . It is difficult to conceive that a hereditary House of Lords will long be maintained in England ) ; and though ...
... less , there does seem to be a natural antagonism between aristocracies of privilege or wealth and an industrial society . It is difficult to conceive that a hereditary House of Lords will long be maintained in England ) ; and though ...
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... less and less attempted as the State appears to be the best expression of the wishes of the majority ; and that some falling off in the energy and acquisitive- ness , which are fostered by individualism , will be compensated by the ...
... less and less attempted as the State appears to be the best expression of the wishes of the majority ; and that some falling off in the energy and acquisitive- ness , which are fostered by individualism , will be compensated by the ...
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... less enthusiasm in those days , because there will be less hope ; but it may be assumed that there will be less misery , more resignation , and it may even be more content . Life in itself is an inexhaustible delight to all but a few ...
... less enthusiasm in those days , because there will be less hope ; but it may be assumed that there will be less misery , more resignation , and it may even be more content . Life in itself is an inexhaustible delight to all but a few ...
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Page 43 - The day will come, and perhaps is not far distant, when the European observer will look round to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow races...
Page 41 - Ali, and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march, they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Page 233 - ... it is melancholy to say it, but the chief, perhaps the only, English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian, is the infidel Gibbon.
Page 1 - We know that coloured and white labour cannot exist side by side; we are well aware that China can swamp us with a single year's surplus of population; and we know that if national existence is sacrificed to the working of a few mines and sugar plantations, it is not the Englishman in Australia alone, but the whole civilised world, that will be the losers.
Page 33 - You know me very ill if you do not think that of all the letters I have ever wrote to You this one gives me the most pleasure, and I want no other return but...
Page 44 - We were struggling among ourselves for supremacy in a world which we thought of as destined to belong to the Aryan races and to the Christian faith; to the letters and arts and charm of social manners which we have inherited from the best times of the past.
Page 59 - He said that the ancient civilizations of the world had been undermined and destroyed by two causes, — the increase of standing armies, and the growth of great cities ; and that modern civilization had now added to these sources of decay a third, in the hypothecation of every nation's property to other nations.