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... REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL ( June 1829 ) 152 UTILITARIAN THEORY OF GOVERNMENT ( October 1829 ) 191 SADLER'S LAW OF POPULATION ( July 1830 ) - 229 SADLER'S REFUTATION REFUTED ( January 1831 ) · - 263 MIRABEAU ( July 1832 ) 300 BARÈRE ...
... REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL ( June 1829 ) 152 UTILITARIAN THEORY OF GOVERNMENT ( October 1829 ) 191 SADLER'S LAW OF POPULATION ( July 1830 ) - 229 SADLER'S REFUTATION REFUTED ( January 1831 ) · - 263 MIRABEAU ( July 1832 ) 300 BARÈRE ...
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... and the fortune less than high play ; it is not much more laughable than phrenology , and is immeasurably more humane than cock - fighting . 152 WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL . ( JUNE 1829. MILL'S ESSAY ON GOVERNMENT . 151.
... and the fortune less than high play ; it is not much more laughable than phrenology , and is immeasurably more humane than cock - fighting . 152 WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL . ( JUNE 1829. MILL'S ESSAY ON GOVERNMENT . 151.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. 152 WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL . ( JUNE 1829. ) The Westminster Review , No. XXI . , Article XVI . , Edin- burgh Review , No. XCVII . , Article ... REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL (June 1829)
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. 152 WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL . ( JUNE 1829. ) The Westminster Review , No. XXI . , Article XVI . , Edin- burgh Review , No. XCVII . , Article ... REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL (June 1829)
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... limited . The advantage is personal and incommunicable . A nobleman can now no longer cover with his protection every lackey who follows his heels , or every bully who draws in his WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL . 153.
... limited . The advantage is personal and incommunicable . A nobleman can now no longer cover with his protection every lackey who follows his heels , or every bully who draws in his WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL . 153.
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... problem , or a series of sophisms and blunders ; and whether the sect which , while it glories in the precision of its logic , extols this Essay as a masterpiece of demon- 154 WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL .
... problem , or a series of sophisms and blunders ; and whether the sect which , while it glories in the precision of its logic , extols this Essay as a masterpiece of demon- 154 WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S DEFENCE OF MILL .
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Página 15 - I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 265 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 304 - Let them be even as the grass growing upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be plucked up ; 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom. 8 So that they who go by say not so much as, The LORD prosper you, we wish you good luck in the name of the LORD.
Página 104 - More than one illustrious stranger has landed on our island amidst the shouts of a mob, has dined with the King, has hunted with the master of the stag-hounds, has seen the Guards reviewed, and a Knight of the Garter installed, has cantered along Regent Street, has visited St. Paul's, and noted down its dimensions; and has then departed, thinking that he has seen England.
Página 58 - It is under the jurisdiction of two hostile powers ; and, like other districts similarly situated, it is ill defined, ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being* equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the sole and absolute dominion of each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory.
Página 101 - They have imposed on themselves a code of conventional decencies as absurd as that which has been the bane of the French drama. The most characteristic and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, because, as we are told, they are too trivial for the majesty of history.
Página 109 - The instruction derived from history thus written would be of a vivid and practical character. It would be received by the imagination as well as by the reason. It would be not merely traced on the mind, but branded into it. Many truths, too, would be learned, which can be learned in no other manner. As the history of states is generally written, the greatest and most momentous revolutions seem to come upon them like supernatural inflictions, without warning or cause. But the fact is, that such revolutions...
Página 106 - But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the government, and the history of the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which alone they can be exhibited justly, in inseparable conjunction and intermixture. We should not then have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology in Old Mortality ; for one-half of King James in Hume and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel.
Página 39 - twill not be your best advice: 'Twill only give me pains of writing twice. You know you must obey me, soon or late: Why should you vainly struggle with your fate?
Página 100 - While our historians are practising all the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect the art of narration, the art of interesting the affections and presenting pictures to the imagination.