The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, 10. köideLongmans, Green, 1915 |
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... Government ; and that accordingly a single stereotyped Government is to make the tour of the world ; that you have no more right to deprive a Dyak of his vote in a ' possible ' Polynesian Parlia- ment than you have to steal his mat ...
... Government ; and that accordingly a single stereotyped Government is to make the tour of the world ; that you have no more right to deprive a Dyak of his vote in a ' possible ' Polynesian Parlia- ment than you have to steal his mat ...
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... Government by devising a new form of security which enabled the Treasury to borrow quickly and on favourable terms . " The National Debt is divided into two sections , ( 1 ) the Funded Debt ; ( 2 ) the Unfunded or Floating Debt . The ...
... Government by devising a new form of security which enabled the Treasury to borrow quickly and on favourable terms . " The National Debt is divided into two sections , ( 1 ) the Funded Debt ; ( 2 ) the Unfunded or Floating Debt . The ...
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... Governments often invest in them , and they have been imitated in different quarters . At the present moment Japan is meditating the issue of a security on the lines of our Bills . They have not only met ordinary emergency demands , but ...
... Governments often invest in them , and they have been imitated in different quarters . At the present moment Japan is meditating the issue of a security on the lines of our Bills . They have not only met ordinary emergency demands , but ...
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... Government is only possible for " deferential nations " : men who can delegate power to " superior persons " . Bagehot delighted in his Somerset clown , who regarded the Crimean War " as a personal struggle between Queen Victoria and ...
... Government is only possible for " deferential nations " : men who can delegate power to " superior persons " . Bagehot delighted in his Somerset clown , who regarded the Crimean War " as a personal struggle between Queen Victoria and ...
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... Government approached him on the subject of his undertaking the then most important office of Finance Minister in the Supreme Council of India , he did not hesitate before refusing ( few even of his own family knew of the trans- action ) ...
... Government approached him on the subject of his undertaking the then most important office of Finance Minister in the Supreme Council of India , he did not hesitate before refusing ( few even of his own family knew of the trans- action ) ...
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Page 57 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 160 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Page 205 - Has shone within me, that serenely now And moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre Suspended in the solitary dome Of some mysterious and deserted fane, I wait thy breath, great Parent, that my strain May modulate with murmurs of the air, And motions of the forests and the sea. And voice of living beings, and woven hymns Of night and day, and the deep heart of man.
Page 246 - THE Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more ; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.
Page 253 - And only thro' the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground; Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold; Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main; Calm and deep peace in this wide air, These leaves that redden to the fall, And in my heart, if calm...
Page 210 - The misfortune is that mysticism is true. There are certainly kinds of truths, borne in, as it were, instinctively on the human intellect, most influential on the character and the heart, yet hardly capable of stringent statement, difficult to limit by an elaborate definition. Their course is shadowy ; the mind seems rather to have seen than to see them, more to feel after than definitely apprehend them. They commonly involve an infinite element, which, of course, cannot be stated precisely, or else...
Page 444 - O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.
Page 93 - Sir, it is that man may be dependent upon man. It is that the exchange of commodities may be accompanied by the extension and diffusion of knowledge - by the interchange of mutual benefits engendering mutual kind feelings - multiplying and confirming friendly relations. It is, that commerce may freely go forth, leading civilisation with one hand, and peace with the other, to render mankind happier, wiser, better.
Page 212 - — it was well for them to be told at once that this was not so. Nature ingeniously prepared a shrill artificial voice, which spoke in season and out of season, enough and more than enough, what will ever be the idea of the cities of the plain concerning those who live alone among the mountains ; of the frivolous concerning the grave ; of the gregarious...
Page 363 - ... to a soft, limp mind tend to perish, except some hard extrinsic force keep them alive. Thus Epicureanism never prospered at Rome, but Stoicism did; the stiff, serious character of the great prevailing nation was attracted by what seemed a confirming creed, and deterred by what looked like a relaxing creed. The inspiriting doctrines fell upon the ardent character, and so confirmed its energy. Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. Such is no doubt one cause why monotheism...