The English bourgeoisie had never been isolated long enough to frame, except ...
The English bourgeoisie had never been isolated long enough to frame, except in the spheres of comfort and carnal morality, ideals and standards of its own.
It was imitative.
A nation, hammered into unity by a strong crown, had ended by putting the power of the Crown into commission, and the great houses, in succeeding to the real authority, had acquired, and imparted to the lesser houses, something of the mysterious ascendancy of the royal symbol. For a hundred years they ruled, and almost reigned, over an England of villages and little towns.
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The new urban civilization was rapidly creating a tradition of civic benevolence ...
The new urban civilization was rapidly creating a tradition of civic benevolence and government, but it had no tradition of civic magnificence.
To be anything, to be
Parliaments in the eighteenth century and in the French wars were not ...
Parliaments in the eighteenth century and in the French wars were not in the first instance legislative bodies: they met to ventilate
IN the great peace of the fifties the lines of force released ...
IN the great peace of the fifties the lines of force released in the earlier decades, lines best remembered by the names of Arnold, Newman, and Carlyle, come round into pattern.