Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6Douglas Jerrold Punch Office, 1847 - English periodicals Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... characters , who seem theoretically and practically resolved to carry out " the greatest misery principle . " " We live in a vale of tears , " they say , " and , there- fore , you shall wipe your eyes on clouts as coarse as sail ...
... characters , who seem theoretically and practically resolved to carry out " the greatest misery principle . " " We live in a vale of tears , " they say , " and , there- fore , you shall wipe your eyes on clouts as coarse as sail ...
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... character . I rejoice the honour of work is asserted in our highest classes , as more honourable than riding in a sedan chair , with a muff and a chapeau - bras , as the Younger Son was content to do in 1747 - to carry scandals from the ...
... character . I rejoice the honour of work is asserted in our highest classes , as more honourable than riding in a sedan chair , with a muff and a chapeau - bras , as the Younger Son was content to do in 1747 - to carry scandals from the ...
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... character and person of Young Watson - about whom so much was said , and of whose almost miraculous escapes nothing has been known . Dr. Watson - the father of this young man- n — resided at Lynn , in Norfolk , where for many years he ...
... character and person of Young Watson - about whom so much was said , and of whose almost miraculous escapes nothing has been known . Dr. Watson - the father of this young man- n — resided at Lynn , in Norfolk , where for many years he ...
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... character of Young Watson , written by the late Mr. Holl , the eminent engraver , who , wholly uncon- nected with politics , an entire stranger both to his family and person , and solely prompted by a feeling of humanity , gave him ...
... character of Young Watson , written by the late Mr. Holl , the eminent engraver , who , wholly uncon- nected with politics , an entire stranger both to his family and person , and solely prompted by a feeling of humanity , gave him ...
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... character so vain and frivolous as Herbert Symmington , he being altogether unsuitable and unworthy of a religious and well brought - up young lady . 66 nice I'm sure I don't encourage him , " said Emma , growing very red and restless ...
... character so vain and frivolous as Herbert Symmington , he being altogether unsuitable and unworthy of a religious and well brought - up young lady . 66 nice I'm sure I don't encourage him , " said Emma , growing very red and restless ...
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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...