 | Martti Koskenniemi - 2001 - 587 ページ
...the peculiar features of our present era will doubt for a moment that we are living a period of the most wonderful transition which tends rapidly to accomplish...great end to which indeed all history points - the realization of the unity of mankind.""' And in a tone of unmitigated Victorian nostalgia: "How 2 Lauterpacht,... | |
 | Ann M. Woodall - 2005 - 256 ページ
...paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which...great end, to which, indeed, all history points - the realization of the unity of mankind.26 At the same time Macaulay wrote in his diary: 'There is just... | |
 | Judit Borbély - 2005 - 180 ページ
...believed that the spectacular material progress would put an end to all the tormenting problems, would "accomplish that great end to which indeed all history...points - the realisation of the unity of mankind" (Watt, 151), as the Prince Consort optimistically verbalised it in connection with the Great Exhibition... | |
 | R. Angus Buchanan - 2006 - 338 ページ
...attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living in a period of most wonderful transition, which tends...great end - to which indeed all history points - the realization of the unity of mankind; not a unity that breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar... | |
 | Steven Johnson - 2006 - 332 ページ
...living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends 41 rapidly to accomplish that great era to which, indeed, all history points: the realisation of the unity of mankind." Mankind was no doubt becoming more unified, but the results were often far from wonderful. The sanitary... | |
 | Richard Reeves - 2008 - 232 ページ
...order. In announcing his sponsorship of the big show as construction began, the prince said, We are living at a period of most wonderful transition which tends rapidly to the accomplishment of that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1850 - 870 ページ
...paid any attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which...end — to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar... | |
 | 1867 - 570 ページ
...paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish the great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realisation of the unity of mankind ! Not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1863 - 860 ページ
...present era, will doubt, fur a moment that we are living at a period of wonderful transition, which tenda rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar... | |
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... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind. 
