'While the 'boy' waits'.Hardwicke, 1879 - 340 pages |
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Page 50
... authority outside the power which requires direction . This question is not one of essential superiority as between the several parts of the body -each is good and respectable in proportion as it discharges the functions of its own ...
... authority outside the power which requires direction . This question is not one of essential superiority as between the several parts of the body -each is good and respectable in proportion as it discharges the functions of its own ...
Page 64
... authority ; and the great mass of the people of this country cherish a reverence for Religion which would make them most unwilling to endan- ger or impair its stability as an element of the State constitution and of Society . But the ...
... authority ; and the great mass of the people of this country cherish a reverence for Religion which would make them most unwilling to endan- ger or impair its stability as an element of the State constitution and of Society . But the ...
Page 79
Joseph Mortimer Granville. XI . CHANGE OF MIND . REFUSAL to bow to the authority of facts is treason to truth . To cling to an idea after it has been shown to be a fallacy is to cherish false- hood . But the man who is asked or expected ...
Joseph Mortimer Granville. XI . CHANGE OF MIND . REFUSAL to bow to the authority of facts is treason to truth . To cling to an idea after it has been shown to be a fallacy is to cherish false- hood . But the man who is asked or expected ...
Page 112
... authority and the overthrow of rule . Instead of governing , they merely echo the pass- ing whim of the governed . In place of playing the part of parents , they are children all over ; and it is very easy to foretell what must happen ...
... authority and the overthrow of rule . Instead of governing , they merely echo the pass- ing whim of the governed . In place of playing the part of parents , they are children all over ; and it is very easy to foretell what must happen ...
Page 113
... authority , end in ruin- ous humiliation . When it comes to be known to the community at large , or to any special class of society , that the persons it has chosen as its leaders are mere children , not only will all con- I 66 fidence ...
... authority , end in ruin- ous humiliation . When it comes to be known to the community at large , or to any special class of society , that the persons it has chosen as its leaders are mere children , not only will all con- I 66 fidence ...
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