The Reflector, Volume 1James Stephen, 1888 |
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Page 2 - Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime ? There among the glooming alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, Crime and hunger cast our maidens by the thousand on the street.
Page 107 - Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it.
Page 107 - Malthus on Population' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long continued observation of the habits of animals and plants...
Page 187 - ... to the ashes, which they had denied to the spirit Let it not displease them that they are bidden, amidst the tumult and the dazzle of their busy life, to listen for the few voices, and watch for the few lamps, which God has toned and lighted to charm and to guide them, that they may not learn their sweetness by their silence, nor their light by their decay...
Page 26 - She had loved society, affecting a somewhat liberal role, and professing an emotional dislike to tyrants, which sprung from the wrongs of would-be regicides and the poverty of patriot exiles. An Italian marquis who had escaped with only a second shirt from the clutches of some archduke whom he had wished to exterminate, or a French...
Page 86 - God has given sentiments of honour — if you accept that the country should groan under the yoke of Bengali rule and its people lick the Bengali shoes, then, in the name of God! jump into the train, sit down, and be off to Madras,* be off to Madras!
Page 2 - O yes, if yonder hill be level with the flat. Charm us, Orator, till the Lion look no larger than the Cat, Till the Cat thro' that mirage of overheated language loom Larger than the Lion, — Demos end in working its own doom.
Page 142 - He is a man so sui generis, that I do not wonder at his not being apprehended till he is seen. His influence is of a curious sort. There is a vague nobleness and thorough sweetness about him, which move people to their very depths, without their being able to explain why. The logicians have an incessant triumph over him, but their triumph is of no avail. He conquers minds, as well as hearts, wherever he goes; and without convincing anybody's reason of any one thing, exalts their reason, and makes...
Page 104 - The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of Charge, the custody of Deeds, Writings, and other Securities and Valuables ; the collection of Bills of Exchange, Dividends and Coupons, and the Purchase and Sale of Stocks, Shares and Annuities.
Page 148 - I think the reason is easy to be assigned; for there is a peculiar string in the harmony of human understanding which, in several individuals, is exactly of the same tuning. This, if you can dextrously screw up to its right key, and then strike gently upon it, whenever you have the good fortune to light among those of the same pitch, they will, by a secret necessary sympathy, strike exactly at the same time.