Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
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ISBN13: 9780217815499
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: partly to endeavor to cease But in regard to poor Sanspotato peasants, Trades-Union craftsmen, Chartist cotton-spinners, the time has come when it must either cease or a worse thing straightway begin, ? a thing of tinder-boxes, vitriol-bottles, second-hand pistols, a visibly insupportable thing in the eyes of all. CHAPTER VIIL msw Eras. For in very truth it is a new Era; a new Practice has become indispensable in it. One has heard so often of new eras, new and newest eras, that the world has grown rather empty of late. Yet new eras do come; there is no fact surer than that they have come more than once. And always with a change of era, with a change of intrinsic conditions, there had to be a change of practice and outward relations brought about, ? if not peaceably, then by violence; for brought about it had to be, there could no rest come till then. How many eras and epochs, not noted at the moment; ? which indeed is the blessedest condition of epochs, that they come quietly, making no proclamation of themselves, and are only visible long after: a Cromwell Rebellion, a French Revolution, striking on the Horologe of Time, to tell all mortals what o'clock it has become, are too expensive, if one could help it ? In a strange rhapsodic History of the Teuton Kindred (Geschichte der Teutschen Sippschaff), not yet translated into our language, we have found a Chapter on the Eras of England, which, were there room for it, would be instructive in this place. We shall crave leave to excerpt some pages; partly as a relief from the too near vexations of our own rather sorrowful Era; partly as calculated to throw, more or less obliquely, some degree of light on the meanings of that. The Author is anonymous: but we have heard him called the Herr Professoi Sauerteig, and i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217815499 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217815499 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $29.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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