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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This important personage advanced with a slow and formal pace ; ascended to the platform , and placing himself behind the desk , looked with a vaguely courageous eye over the crowd of beads around him . The Lecturer was a sedate ...
This important personage advanced with a slow and formal pace ; ascended to the platform , and placing himself behind the desk , looked with a vaguely courageous eye over the crowd of beads around him . The Lecturer was a sedate ...
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In modern times the resistance to all new and important things is managed in a less violent way - by laughter chiefly , by denunciation , nicknames , contempt , or utter neglect . Yet the very same deriders will denounce those who acted ...
In modern times the resistance to all new and important things is managed in a less violent way - by laughter chiefly , by denunciation , nicknames , contempt , or utter neglect . Yet the very same deriders will denounce those who acted ...
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... they were at present mismanaged , or neglected , —the whole of which discourse he particularly addressed to Mary , as if NO . XXXI .-- VOL . VI . C he were anxious to impress her with the importance of THE DREAMER AND THE WORKER .
... they were at present mismanaged , or neglected , —the whole of which discourse he particularly addressed to Mary , as if NO . XXXI .-- VOL . VI . C he were anxious to impress her with the importance of THE DREAMER AND THE WORKER .
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There is another important matter , partly involved in the question of wear and tear ; to wit , freshness . Our great - grandfathers and great - grandmothers furnished their houses as they dressed themselves for life .
There is another important matter , partly involved in the question of wear and tear ; to wit , freshness . Our great - grandfathers and great - grandmothers furnished their houses as they dressed themselves for life .
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Hence the injustice - often times neglect-which meets every great discovery , which strives to gag the utterance of every new important truth . It is not many years since Sir W. Scott ridiculed the idea of steam being used to propel ...
Hence the injustice - often times neglect-which meets every great discovery , which strives to gag the utterance of every new important truth . It is not many years since Sir W. Scott ridiculed the idea of steam being used to propel ...
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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...
Bibliographic information
| 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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