 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 446 pagine
...AngloSaxon 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 be... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 pagine
...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 pagine
...happiness, on which I have so often commented : "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 tho world over, or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 pagine
...happiness, on which I have so often commented : " I look around me and ask what is the state of England? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask...have already seen to have been convenient enough so f long as there were only the Barbarians and the Philistines to do what they liked, but to be getting... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 - 404 pagine
...Anglo-Saxon ra.ce, the best breed in the whole world ! I pray that o\ar unrivalled happiness may last ! I ask you whether the world over or in past history, there is anythinlike it ? And so long as criticism answers this dithyramb by msisting that the old Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 172 pagine
...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 be... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pagine
...to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history,...there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our 30 unrivalled happiness may last." Now obviously there is a peril for poor human nature in words and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pagine
...AngloSaxon 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 Anglo-Saxon race would be still more superior to all others if it had no church-rates, or that our... | |
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I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it? 
