The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 16; Volume 20George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1867 - Electronic journals |
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... picture before me . " " Wealth , my lord , like heat , has its latent conditions . " " Condescend to a more commonplace tone , sir , in consideration of my ignorance , and tell me frankly , is the mine as far from reality , as that reef ...
... picture before me . " " Wealth , my lord , like heat , has its latent conditions . " " Condescend to a more commonplace tone , sir , in consideration of my ignorance , and tell me frankly , is the mine as far from reality , as that reef ...
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... picture of the pier , with its busy crowds , and its bustling porters . " There it is ! " " I should say , Cutbill , there it is not ! observed the other bitterly . " Anything more unlike the reality is hard to conceive . " " Few things ...
... picture of the pier , with its busy crowds , and its bustling porters . " There it is ! " " I should say , Cutbill , there it is not ! observed the other bitterly . " Anything more unlike the reality is hard to conceive . " " Few things ...
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... - tains we have seen , the sound of innumerable waterfalls , and the scent of countless flowers . A photograph of Bisson's , the name of some well- known valley , the picture of some Alpine plant , 28 THE LOVE OF THE ALPS .
... - tains we have seen , the sound of innumerable waterfalls , and the scent of countless flowers . A photograph of Bisson's , the name of some well- known valley , the picture of some Alpine plant , 28 THE LOVE OF THE ALPS .
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George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray. known valley , the picture of some Alpine plant , rouses the sacred hunger in our souls , and stirs again the faith in beauty and in rest beyond our- selves which no man can take from us . We ...
George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray. known valley , the picture of some Alpine plant , rouses the sacred hunger in our souls , and stirs again the faith in beauty and in rest beyond our- selves which no man can take from us . We ...
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... picture in the centre , set round with rays of the sun , and a man standing beneath it in point of art much like the forked radishes in Quarles ' Emblems . Not a particle of furniture remained in the room . An old pillion lay in one ...
... picture in the centre , set round with rays of the sun , and a man standing beneath it in point of art much like the forked radishes in Quarles ' Emblems . Not a particle of furniture remained in the room . An old pillion lay in one ...
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Page 51 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 41 - Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger ; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery, if it is to do any good at all, is to serve ; but always in machinery, as if it had a value in and for itself.
Page 52 - Again and again I have insisted how those are the happy moments of humanity how those are the marking epochs of a people's life, how those are the flowering times for literature and art and all the creative power of genius, when there is a national glow of life and thought, when the whole of society is in the fullest measure permeated by thought, sensible to beauty, intelligent and alive.
Page 53 - ... who have laboured to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive ; to humanise it, to make it efficient outside the clique of the cultivated and learned, yet still remaining the best knowledge and thought of the time, and a true source, therefore, of sweetness and light.
Page 38 - And knowing that no action or institution can be salutary and stable which is not based on reason and the will of God, it is not so bent on acting and instituting, even with the great aim of diminishing human error and misery ever before its thoughts, but that it can remember that acting and instituting are of little use, unless we know how and what we ought to act and to institute.
Page 370 - This is the curse of life ! that not A nobler, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will.
Page 50 - Engineer, will agree that the idea which culture sets before us of perfection, — an increased spiritual activity, having for its characters increased sweetness, increased light, increased life, increased sympathy, — is an idea which the new democracy needs far more than the idea of the blessedness of the franchise, or the wonderfulness of its own industrial performances.
Page 52 - Harrison wants to be doing business, and he complains that the man of culture stops him with a "turn for small faultfinding, love of selfish ease, and indecision in action." Of what use is culture, he asks, except for " a critic of new books or a professor of...
Page 338 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
Page 38 - For as there is a curiosity about intellectual matters which is futile, and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are, — which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable.