 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 796 oldal
...look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 446 oldal
...seen them will remember ;- — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child ! " I ask you whether the world over, or in past history, there is anything like it?" It may be so, one is inclined to answer ; but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much to... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 oldal
...It tortures him when, in similar mood, Mr. Roebuck, wondering at the state of England, exclaims, ' I ask you whether, the world ' over or in past history,...' I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.' O the fatuity of the average member of Parliament, addressing his constituents ! Does he road the newspapers,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 928 oldal
...ask what is the state of England? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether tho world over, or in past history, there is anything...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as ho likes, which wo have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 oldal
...I look around me and ask what is the state of England? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 oldal
...look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 oldal
...Anglo-Saxon race, the best breed in the whole world ! I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last! I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ! ' And so long as criticism answers this dithyramb by insisting that the old Anglo-Saxon race would... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 oldal
...talk to the Sheffield cutlers about " our unrivalled happiness." " I ask you," said Mr. Roebuck, " whether the world over, or in past history, there...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." Writing at a date before the repeal of the Corn Laws, it is assuredly not our unrivalled happiness... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 420 oldal
..."I look around me and ask what is the state of England 1 Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1891 - 438 oldal
..."I look around me and ask what is the state of England 1 Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
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I ask you whether the world over, or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last. 
