The Cornhill Magazine, Band 16;Band 20George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1867 |
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... young men at opposite sides of an ample fireplace . One sat , or rather reclined , on a small leather sofa , his bandaged leg resting on a pillow , and his pale and somewhat shrunken face evidencing the results of pain and confine- ment ...
... young men at opposite sides of an ample fireplace . One sat , or rather reclined , on a small leather sofa , his bandaged leg resting on a pillow , and his pale and somewhat shrunken face evidencing the results of pain and confine- ment ...
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... young men may be the establishment of a better and sounder physical type for the future to work with . Culture does not get itself against the games and sports ; it congratulates the future , and hopes it will make a good use of its ...
... young men may be the establishment of a better and sounder physical type for the future to work with . Culture does not get itself against the games and sports ; it congratulates the future , and hopes it will make a good use of its ...
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... young lions of the Daily Telegraph in the meanwhile are sacrificed . A voice for every man in his country's government is necessary for the society of the future , but meanwhile Mr. Beales and Mr. Bradlaugh are sacrificed . We in Oxford ...
... young lions of the Daily Telegraph in the meanwhile are sacrificed . A voice for every man in his country's government is necessary for the society of the future , but meanwhile Mr. Beales and Mr. Bradlaugh are sacrificed . We in Oxford ...
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... ended the old man , sadly , " and it says , — All you young men as passes by , Throw a look and cast an eye ; As you is now , so once was I , Prepare to live , as you must die.- THE DRUID'S STONES " for to learn um how they're. 54.
... ended the old man , sadly , " and it says , — All you young men as passes by , Throw a look and cast an eye ; As you is now , so once was I , Prepare to live , as you must die.- THE DRUID'S STONES " for to learn um how they're. 54.
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... young uns is wonderful soon took up wi ' a pretty face , -and they fa's into love and out again like as if it were a pond .-- And ' tain't allus such a clean one either , " moralized Nathan ; " a lot o ' muck they picks up whiles ...
... young uns is wonderful soon took up wi ' a pretty face , -and they fa's into love and out again like as if it were a pond .-- And ' tain't allus such a clean one either , " moralized Nathan ; " a lot o ' muck they picks up whiles ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 338 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
Seite 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.