Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales: Lothair

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x. oldal - ... to establish a commercial code on the principles successfully negotiated by Lord Bolingbroke at Utrecht, and which, though baffled at the time by a Whig Parliament, were subsequently and triumphantly vindicated by his political pupil and heir, Mr.
137. oldal - Books are fatal ; they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
137. oldal - What I admire in the order to which you belong is that they do live in the air; that they excel in athletic sports; that they can only speak one language; and that they never read. This is not a complete education, but it is the highest education since the Greek.
xv. oldal - It cannot be denied that the aspect of the world and this country, to those who have faith in the spiritual nature of man, is at this time dark and distressful. They listen to doubts, and even denials, of an active Providence ; what is styled Materialism is in the ascendant. To those who believe that an atheistical society, though it may be polished and amiable, involves the seeds of anarchy, the prospect is full of gloom.
xiv. oldal - ... health and knowledge of the multitude as not the least precious part of the wealth of nations. In asserting the doctrine of race, they were entirely opposed to the equality of man, and similar abstract dogmas, which have destroyed ancient society without creating a satisfactory substitute. Eesting on popular sympathies and , popular privileges, they held that no society could be ' durable unless it was built upon the principles of loyalty and religious reverence.
429. oldal - Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves.
142. oldal - I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
xiii. oldal - ... people which had been the consequence of them ; the duties of the Church as a main remedial agency in our present state ; were the three principal topics which I intended to treat ; but I found they were too vast for the space I had allotted to myself." These were all launched in

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