Blackwood's Magazine, Volum 206W. Blackwood, 1919 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 687 - England logically is in the odious position of being the cause of all the misery of Ireland. What, then, is the duty of an English Minister ? To effect by his policy all those changes which a revolution would do by force. That is the Irish question in its integrity.* These were statesmanlike words, but they were never followed by statesmanlike deeds.
Pàgina 358 - Now, we have shown, that although most revolutions of government in Greece and Rome began with the Tyranny of the People, yet they generally concluded in that of a single person ; so that a usurping populace is its own dupe, a mere underworker, and a purchaser in trust for some single tyrant, whose state and power they advance to their own ruin, with as blind an instinct as those worms that die with weaving magnificent habits for beings of a superior nature to their own.
Pàgina 687 - A dense population in extreme distress inhabit an island where there is an established Church which is not their Church ; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom live in a distant capital. Thus they have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. "Well, what then would honorable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position ? They would say at once, 'The remedy is revolution.
Pàgina 134 - College of St. Elizabeth Convent Station, New Jersey 45 Minutes from New York Catholic College for Women Registered by Regents Standard College Preparatory Courses Academy of St.
Pàgina 566 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
Pàgina 597 - Above all things let no unwary reader do me the injustice of believing in me. In that I write at all I am among the damned. If he must believe in anything, let him believe in the music of Handel, the painting of Giovanni Bellini, and in the thirteenth chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians.
Pàgina 148 - ... window into the Eastern evening, and speculated on what the god of chance might do for us. To be effective he would have to do a lot. There was, for example, the Austrian sentry whom I could see below, leaning against a motor-lorry. If he were active on whatever night we fixed for our escape, how could we climb down to the ground unobserved? The window itself offered no difficulties, for it was above the street and on the first floor, so that a few bedclothes tied together would suffice to lower...
Pàgina 355 - From this time forth till I come to the state of Buddha, let me not be born in a frontier-land." He remained accordingly in India, and did not return to the land of Han. Fa-hien, however, whose original purpose had been to secure the introduction of the complete Vinaya rules into the land of Han, returned there alone. Mahasanghika simply means "the Great Assembly...
Pàgina 687 - But the Irish could not have a revolution, and why? Because Ireland is connected with another and a more powerful country.