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Pagina 265 - Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some beams of glory, but the British soldier conquered under the cold shade of aristocracy; no honours awaited his daring, no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his countrymen, his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed.
Pagina 265 - ... life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed. " Did his heart sink, therefore ? Did he not endure with surpassing fortitude the sorest of ills, sustain the most terrible assaults in battle unmoved, and with incredible energy overthrow every opponent, at all times proving that while no physical military qualification was wanting, the fount of honour was also full and fresh within him...
Pagina 314 - Everything which pertains to the human species, considered as a whole, belongs to the order of physical facts. The greater the number of individuals, the more does the influence of the individual will disappear, leaving predominance to a series of general facts dependent on causes by which society exists, and is preserved.
Pagina 222 - We are an excellent army on parade, an excellent one to fight ; but we are worse than an enemy in a country ; and take my word for it, that either defeat or . success would dissolve us.
Pagina 144 - ... consequent sacrifice and general bankruptcy, and, far more important than all, because more continuous, with what is called an excess of labor in the various labor markets of the world, by which thousands of men and women able to work and willing to work are deprived of the opportunity to do so. There is no reason in the nature of the case why there should not be as accurate a knowledge in the community of the statistics of supply and demand as there is of the rise and fall of the tides, nor...
Pagina 297 - England, it may be useful to state that it is now well established by extensive obseivation, that England is the healthiest country in Europe. France stands next to England in salubrity. In the continental cities the annual rate of mortality is seldom less than 30 in 1,000; and the rate frequently rises to 40 in 1,000. In London the rate of mortality is 25 in 1,000.
Pagina 163 - There is no limitation upon the number of partners of which a banking company may consist ; and, excepting in the case of the Bank of Scotland, and the two chartered banks, which have very considerable capitals, the partners of all banking companies...
Pagina 313 - Government, whenever the exigencies of the state may require it, to make an advantageous loan for the public. These objects, however, Sir, are in some degree inconsistent. In some degree they counteract each other. Whatever measure raises the funds, and thus enables Government to borrow on the best terms, prevents the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt from reducing that debt on the best terms. Now, Sir, the measure which I propose will combine both these objects ; it will naturally...
Pagina 314 - Stanley quoted what he labeled "the dictum of Quetelet": "All observation tends to confirm the truth of this proposition, that which concerns the human race, considered collectively, is of the order of physical facts: the greater the number of individuals, the more completely does the will of individuals disappear, and allow the series of general facts, which depend upon the causes by which society exists and is preserved, to predominate.