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... thought . That the pariah class in our great cities is in the lowest abyss of misery may be conceded ; and it is probable that the working class generally has now and again had glimpses of a better life than it enjoys but the whole ...
... thought . That the pariah class in our great cities is in the lowest abyss of misery may be conceded ; and it is probable that the working class generally has now and again had glimpses of a better life than it enjoys but the whole ...
Page 75
... thought that the untitled landed gentry re- present a more permanent aristocracy , better blood , and longer connection with land than the peers . This is only the conceit of county notabilities . The late Mr. Evelyn Shirley made a list ...
... thought that the untitled landed gentry re- present a more permanent aristocracy , better blood , and longer connection with land than the peers . This is only the conceit of county notabilities . The late Mr. Evelyn Shirley made a list ...
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... thought a danger to the Empire . The Jews have spread into Russia from Poland , where they enjoyed exceptional privileges , and though they suffered in 1832 for their supposed complicity in the Polish War of Independence , they have ...
... thought a danger to the Empire . The Jews have spread into Russia from Poland , where they enjoyed exceptional privileges , and though they suffered in 1832 for their supposed complicity in the Polish War of Independence , they have ...
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... 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 . We shall wake to find ourselves elbowed and ...
... 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 . We shall wake to find ourselves elbowed and ...
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... thought , art , and style for centuries . Parallels may be found in the histories of Greece , of Peru , and of Cambodia . - The fortunes of Spain and Turkey are striking illustrations of the same law from modern times . - The supremacy ...
... thought , art , and style for centuries . Parallels may be found in the histories of Greece , of Peru , and of Cambodia . - The fortunes of Spain and Turkey are striking illustrations of the same law from modern times . - The supremacy ...
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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.