The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 16; Volume 20George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1867 - Electronic journals |
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... thought of such a liberty , even for a disguise , but he was now engaged with the note , and read on without speaking . " Nothing could be more courteous , certainly , " said he , folding it up , and laying it beside him on the table ...
... thought of such a liberty , even for a disguise , but he was now engaged with the note , and read on without speaking . " Nothing could be more courteous , certainly , " said he , folding it up , and laying it beside him on the table ...
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... thought on reading his curious remi- niscences was to make them the basis of a memoir for publication . Of course they were fearfully indiscreet , and involved reputations that no one had ever thought of assailing ; but they were ...
... thought on reading his curious remi- niscences was to make them the basis of a memoir for publication . Of course they were fearfully indiscreet , and involved reputations that no one had ever thought of assailing ; but they were ...
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... thought it ; and indeed his advice to me was rather to address myself seriously to some means of livelihood , or to try and make some compromise with the Bramleighs , with whom he deemed a mere penniless pretender would not have the ...
... thought it ; and indeed his advice to me was rather to address myself seriously to some means of livelihood , or to try and make some compromise with the Bramleighs , with whom he deemed a mere penniless pretender would not have the ...
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... thought it . " A long silence ensued between them , then Longworth , looking at his watch , exclaimed , " Who'd believe it ? It wants only a few minutes to two o'clock . Good - night . " The Love of the Alps . Of all the joys THE ...
... thought it . " A long silence ensued between them , then Longworth , looking at his watch , exclaimed , " Who'd believe it ? It wants only a few minutes to two o'clock . Good - night . " The Love of the Alps . Of all the joys THE ...
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... thought in this respect . Our travellers in search of the adventurous and picturesque , our Alpine Club , have made of Switzerland an English playground . The greatest period in our history was but a foreshadowing 26 THE LOVE OF THE ALPS .
... thought in this respect . Our travellers in search of the adventurous and picturesque , our Alpine Club , have made of Switzerland an English playground . The greatest period in our history was but a foreshadowing 26 THE LOVE OF THE ALPS .
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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.