Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... was the avowed friend and champion of witches that had been burned at the stake , and who publicly professed to believe and to have seen impossibilities . As for the address made by Archer to the audience , it was not much better ...
... was the avowed friend and champion of witches that had been burned at the stake , and who publicly professed to believe and to have seen impossibilities . As for the address made by Archer to the audience , it was not much better ...
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Let us not fall into the debauchery of a cynical acquiescence with what is coarse and second - rate , after we have tasted of better things . But that such an anti - climax may not happen — a misery to those wbo feel it , a degradation ...
Let us not fall into the debauchery of a cynical acquiescence with what is coarse and second - rate , after we have tasted of better things . But that such an anti - climax may not happen — a misery to those wbo feel it , a degradation ...
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There are certain items , then , in furnishing which it is better should be owned to be perishable , than chosen with an eye to posterity . While wood - work cannot be too strong , or too thoroughly seasoned — while Committees are ...
There are certain items , then , in furnishing which it is better should be owned to be perishable , than chosen with an eye to posterity . While wood - work cannot be too strong , or too thoroughly seasoned — while Committees are ...
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It will be obvious in the above , that I have taken for granted that a better spirit will generally prevail than merely that hard determination to get the utmost penny's worth for a Member's penny , which makes some of our more august ...
It will be obvious in the above , that I have taken for granted that a better spirit will generally prevail than merely that hard determination to get the utmost penny's worth for a Member's penny , which makes some of our more august ...
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... who , my boy hopes , is not come to be its Bore : too late to repeat what -and- and and said to me with regard to my poor productions — or to tabulate the state of the better classes during this strange time of scarcity ; beyond the ...
... who , my boy hopes , is not come to be its Bore : too late to repeat what -and- and and said to me with regard to my poor productions — or to tabulate the state of the better classes during this strange time of scarcity ; beyond the ...
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Page 169 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 169 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 169 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 548 - in which the conversation turned on the civil war, what could be conceived more impertinent than for a person to ask abruptly, What was the value of a Roman denarius ? On a little reflection, however, I was easily able to trace the train of thought which suggested the question : for, the original subject of discourse naturally introduced the history of the king, and of the treachery of those who surrendered his person to his enemies ; this again introduced the treachery of Judas Iscariot, and the...
Page 169 - Thus by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Page 170 - ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe.
Page 226 - Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, And fevers into false creation ; — where, Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized ? In him alone. Can Nature show so fair...
Page 168 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
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| Title | Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6 |
| Editor | Douglas Jerrold |
| Publisher | Punch Office, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2007 |
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