Prince Albert's golden precepts: or, The opinions and maxims of ... the prince consort, selected from his addresses, etcSampson Low & Company, 1862 - 133 pages |
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... peculiar interest from the fact of their forming the first public address of Prince Albert in this country . They were spoken at a meeting of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade , held in London , on the 1st of June , 1840 ...
... peculiar interest from the fact of their forming the first public address of Prince Albert in this country . They were spoken at a meeting of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade , held in London , on the 1st of June , 1840 ...
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... peculiar to him , that in great things , as in small , all the difficulties and objections occurred to him at first ; he would anxiously consider them , pause , and warn against rash resolutions ; but having convinced himself , after a ...
... peculiar to him , that in great things , as in small , all the difficulties and objections occurred to him at first ; he would anxiously consider them , pause , and warn against rash resolutions ; but having convinced himself , after a ...
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... peculiar nature of its institutions . It is owing to these national qualities that England , whilst constantly progressing , has still preserved the integrity of her constitution from the earliest times , and has been protected from ...
... peculiar nature of its institutions . It is owing to these national qualities that England , whilst constantly progressing , has still preserved the integrity of her constitution from the earliest times , and has been protected from ...
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... peculiar to the enterprises of Englishmen , that strongly attached as they are to the institutions of their country , and gratefully * The Great Grimsby Docks . acknowledging the protection of those laws under which their enterprises ...
... peculiar to the enterprises of Englishmen , that strongly attached as they are to the institutions of their country , and gratefully * The Great Grimsby Docks . acknowledging the protection of those laws under which their enterprises ...
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... peculiar organization and mode of action , perhaps not unwisely ) , eliminated from its con- sideration and discussions those which come under the description of moral and political sciences . This has not been done from undervaluing ...
... peculiar organization and mode of action , perhaps not unwisely ) , eliminated from its con- sideration and discussions those which come under the description of moral and political sciences . This has not been done from undervaluing ...
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advantage agricultural ALBERT'S GOLDEN PRECEPTS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Almighty amongst April 18 attention become benevolent blessings British Association capital cause census character Christianity City of Aberdeen civilization collection common condition confidence CRADLE OF POLITICAL CREATE NEW SCIENCES direct discovery Divine Domestic Servants duty Edinburgh National Gallery efforts enable England established evil exertions Exhibition of 1851 existence feeling further give Government gratifying Grimsby happiness highest honour hope human important individual industry influence interest jubilee knowledge laws master means meeting ment Metropolitan Cattle Market mind moral nature noble object observations October 25 opinion peace peculiar political sciences position present PRINCE CONSORT principle production progress prosperity pulse pursuits recognise religious rendered require Royal sacred schools scientific SIR ROBERT PEEL Society Sovereign spirit STARTLING FACTS statistical science subjects tion truth unity vast whilst whole Windsor Castle
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Page 46 - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points— the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity, the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
Page 2 - ... person ; but it is more peculiarly the duty of those who, under the blessing of Divine Providence, enjoy station, wealth, and education.
Page 45 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives; and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.
Page 46 - ... placed within the reach of everybody ; thought is communicated with the rapidity, and even by the power, of lightning.
Page 46 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
Page 3 - Let them be careful, however, to avoid any dictatorial interference with labour and employment, which frightens away capital, destroys that freedom of thought and independence of action which must remain to every one if he is to work out his own happiness, and impairs that confidence under which alone engagements for mutual benefit are possible.
Page 58 - The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Page 96 - Please to recollect that this species of bore is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends for which Nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to the cause which he advocates, and obtains that hearing which is granted him at last for self-protection, as the minor evil compared to his importunity, but which is requisite to make his cause understood.
Page 107 - ... all, can only embrace a comparatively short space of time, and a small number of experiments. From none of these causes can we hope for much progress ; for the mind, however ingenious, has no materials to work with, and remains in presence of phenomena, the causes of which are hidden from it. But...
Page 12 - The products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition and capital.