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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A large brass telescope gave an air of style to a small cottage fronting the sea ; and , besides enabling any one who took an interest in mercantile transactions to observe the coming and going of ships at a distance , a gentleman could ...
A large brass telescope gave an air of style to a small cottage fronting the sea ; and , besides enabling any one who took an interest in mercantile transactions to observe the coming and going of ships at a distance , a gentleman could ...
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... nor Garrick Gallery will grow , no one that has watched the progress of a collection , will doubt the possibility of its increase , and the chance of gradual improvement , let once interest and emulation be engendered .
... nor Garrick Gallery will grow , no one that has watched the progress of a collection , will doubt the possibility of its increase , and the chance of gradual improvement , let once interest and emulation be engendered .
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But Jones , in Astronomy so acquiescent , is less easy to be persuaded in morals or politics : they touch him nearly , and truth becomes identified with his immediate interest . Jealous of all spiritual tyranny , Jones acquiesces in ...
But Jones , in Astronomy so acquiescent , is less easy to be persuaded in morals or politics : they touch him nearly , and truth becomes identified with his immediate interest . Jealous of all spiritual tyranny , Jones acquiesces in ...
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And then to hear my old friend -- the once - political Dilberry , straightway “ divaricating , ” with as keen an interest as that of Mrs. Dilberry the Third , or Miss Annette , or Miss Lucie , to the “ prices current ” of stalls in the ...
And then to hear my old friend -- the once - political Dilberry , straightway “ divaricating , ” with as keen an interest as that of Mrs. Dilberry the Third , or Miss Annette , or Miss Lucie , to the “ prices current ” of stalls in the ...
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... proveth the rule ) -- all this distribution and intercourse - I say — this division of interests and destruction of overgrown despotisms , may have an effect , for the moment , less agreeable than some of those just indicated .
... proveth the rule ) -- all this distribution and intercourse - I say — this division of interests and destruction of overgrown despotisms , may have an effect , for the moment , less agreeable than some of those just indicated .
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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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