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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... means of electricity . What is electricity ? Nobody knows . What is magnetism ? Nobody knows . It is said to be a fluid . It may be so . It may be a new sense - one that receives and transmits without the in- tervention of any known ...
... means of electricity . What is electricity ? Nobody knows . What is magnetism ? Nobody knows . It is said to be a fluid . It may be so . It may be a new sense - one that receives and transmits without the in- tervention of any known ...
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... means by which these things are effected , - and because none of those most learned in the world's best know- ledge ... mean to say , sir , that I am myself ignorant of what I have so long given up my life to study and comprehend in all ...
... means by which these things are effected , - and because none of those most learned in the world's best know- ledge ... mean to say , sir , that I am myself ignorant of what I have so long given up my life to study and comprehend in all ...
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... means that such glories as these are upon an inclined plane - eh , Bainton ! -ready to slide down into the water . Here's a ship ! How many guns do you say , Harding ? " " A hundred and ten . " " And tonnage ? " " Three thousand and ...
... means that such glories as these are upon an inclined plane - eh , Bainton ! -ready to slide down into the water . Here's a ship ! How many guns do you say , Harding ? " " A hundred and ten . " " And tonnage ? " " Three thousand and ...
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... means follows that their walls should go bare , and their windows dingy for lack of adorn- ment - if they please . Give them a pride in their house : and things are more impossible than that some should take pleasure in its garniture ...
... means follows that their walls should go bare , and their windows dingy for lack of adorn- ment - if they please . Give them a pride in their house : and things are more impossible than that some should take pleasure in its garniture ...
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... means of existing Institutions slightly modified . They could not do the first , simply because they have no accepted theory of society upon which to found their Institu- tions . Their efforts expend themselves in eloquence . They have ...
... means of existing Institutions slightly modified . They could not do the first , simply because they have no accepted theory of society upon which to found their Institu- tions . Their efforts expend themselves in eloquence . They have ...
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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...