SELECTED LITERARY AND POLITICAL PAPERS AND ADDRESSES OF WOODROW WILSON |
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Strana 4
Masters bent Masters bent upon instructing and inspiring -- and there were many
such - had to penetrate that central secret of literature and spoken utterance —
the secret of style . Their only instrument of conquest was the sword of
penetrating ...
Masters bent Masters bent upon instructing and inspiring -- and there were many
such - had to penetrate that central secret of literature and spoken utterance —
the secret of style . Their only instrument of conquest was the sword of
penetrating ...
Strana 6
There was no suitable place amid the formal spaces of his palatial style for small
illuminating details . Even from Dugald Stewart , however , we get a picture of
Adam Smith which must please every one who 6 AN OLD MASTER.
There was no suitable place amid the formal spaces of his palatial style for small
illuminating details . Even from Dugald Stewart , however , we get a picture of
Adam Smith which must please every one who 6 AN OLD MASTER.
Strana 9
It appears clear that his success was due to two things : the broad outlook of his
treatment and the fine art of his style . His chair was Moral Philosophy ; and '
moral philosophy ' seems to have been the most inclusive of general terms in the
...
It appears clear that his success was due to two things : the broad outlook of his
treatment and the fine art of his style . His chair was Moral Philosophy ; and '
moral philosophy ' seems to have been the most inclusive of general terms in the
...
Strana 17
It has revealed the extent of his outlook . There yet remains something to be said
of his literary method , so that we may discern the qualities of that style which ,
after proving so effectual in imparting power to his spoken discourses , has since
...
It has revealed the extent of his outlook . There yet remains something to be said
of his literary method , so that we may discern the qualities of that style which ,
after proving so effectual in imparting power to his spoken discourses , has since
...
Strana 18
Dugald Stewart speaks of “ that flowing and apparently artless style , which he
had studiously cultivated , but which , after all his experience in composition , he
adjusted , with extreme difficulty , to his own taste . " The results were such as to ...
Dugald Stewart speaks of “ that flowing and apparently artless style , which he
had studiously cultivated , but which , after all his experience in composition , he
adjusted , with extreme difficulty , to his own taste . " The results were such as to ...
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Strana 83 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name...
Strana 100 - Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd...
Strana 19 - If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse.
Strana 10 - In the last part of his lectures, he examined those political regulations which are founded, not upon the principle of justice, but that of expediency, and which are calculated to increase the riches, the power, and the prosperity of a State.
Strana 18 - The principal materials of the works which he had announced, had been long collected ; and little probably was wanting, but a few years of health and retirement, to bestow on them that systematical arrangement in which he delighted ; and the ornaments of that flowing, and apparently artless style, which he had studiously cultivated, but which, after all his experience in composition, he adjusted, with extreme difficulty, to his own taste...
Strana 82 - Europe.' as Sydney Smith said, ' he safely brought the curates' salaries improvement bill to a hearing'; and it still more shows the horror of all innovation which the recent events of French history had impressed on our wealthy and comfortable classes. They were afraid of catching revolution, as old women of catching cold. Sir Archibald Alison to this day holds that revolution is an infectious disease, beginning no one knows how, and going on no one knows where. There is but one rule of escape,...
Strana 81 - Hardly any fact in history is so incredible as that forty and a few years ago England was ruled by Mr. Perceval: it seems almost the same as being ruled by the Record newspaper, — he had the same poorness of thought, the same petty Conservatism, the same dark and narrow superstition. His quibbling mode of oratory seems to have been scarcely agreeable to his friends; his impotence in political speculation moves the wrath, destroys the patience of the quietest reader now. Other ministers have had...
Strana 91 - We manifested one hundred years ago what Europe lost, namely, self-command, self-possession. Democracy in Europe, outside of closeted Switzerland, has acted always in rebellion, as a destructive force: it can scarcely be said to have had, even yet, any period of organic development. It has built such temporary governments as it has had opportunity to erect on the old foundations and out of the discredited materials of centralized rule, elevating the people's representatives for a season to the throne,...
Strana 93 - When practised, not by small communities, but by wide nations, democracy, far from being a crude form of government, is possible only amongst peoples of the highest and steadiest political habit. It is the heritage of races purged alike of hasty barbaric passions and of patient servility to rulers, and schooled in temperate common counsel. It is an institution of political noonday, not of the half-light of political dawn. It can never be made to sit easily or safely on first generations, but strengthens...
Strana 11 - And he destroyed before his death the remains of the book, Lectures on Justice, "in which," we are told by a student who heard them, "he followed Montesquieu in...