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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... Humanity — it is weak , vacillating , vague and contradictory in construction . Once suppose its destructive office at an end , and what remains for it ? To be eloquent over the misery of millions , to expose the injustice of class ...
... Humanity — it is weak , vacillating , vague and contradictory in construction . Once suppose its destructive office at an end , and what remains for it ? To be eloquent over the misery of millions , to expose the injustice of class ...
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... human flesh . The boats then appear huge clusters of humanity clinging together like swarming bees round the smok- ing funnel . Away they go , rolling and careening from starboard to port - nothing but the resistance offered on either ...
... human flesh . The boats then appear huge clusters of humanity clinging together like swarming bees round the smok- ing funnel . Away they go , rolling and careening from starboard to port - nothing but the resistance offered on either ...
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... human flesh - let him see all this , and let him remember , that all this is perpetrated in defiance of the magnates of the City - and their solemnly recorded regulations - let him observe that the interpretation put upon the City bye ...
... human flesh - let him see all this , and let him remember , that all this is perpetrated in defiance of the magnates of the City - and their solemnly recorded regulations - let him observe that the interpretation put upon the City bye ...
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... humanity , gave him shelter and protection for the space of nearly three months , at a time when thousands were set upon his head , as well as a heavy reward offered for the discovery of his concealer , and death for his punishment ...
... humanity , gave him shelter and protection for the space of nearly three months , at a time when thousands were set upon his head , as well as a heavy reward offered for the discovery of his concealer , and death for his punishment ...
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... human beings more uninterrupt- edly tranquil , and confident in the results of their own exertions , than the inhabitants of Great Britain during the last ten years . Their contentment is mainly owing to the rapidity and freedom of ...
... human beings more uninterrupt- edly tranquil , and confident in the results of their own exertions , than the inhabitants of Great Britain during the last ten years . Their contentment is mainly owing to the rapidity and freedom of ...
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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...