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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... speak English , had studied it at the University in Ger- many , and could understand pretty well ; and he now shook his head . The audience was , as usual , miscellaneous : a few merchants and government officers with their families ...
... speak English , had studied it at the University in Ger- many , and could understand pretty well ; and he now shook his head . The audience was , as usual , miscellaneous : a few merchants and government officers with their families ...
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... once or twice this morning . " To commence our operations by using the designs of a half- mad German architect , who believes in magic , and cannot speak six words of English , will never do . But c 2 THE DREAMER AND THE WORKER . 19.
... once or twice this morning . " To commence our operations by using the designs of a half- mad German architect , who believes in magic , and cannot speak six words of English , will never do . But c 2 THE DREAMER AND THE WORKER . 19.
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... speak it seriously — is the belief of the Radicals ; and their belief they put forward as an argument . Institutions will come ! What misconception of the whole subject is betrayed by this vague hope ! Whence , I ask , are these ...
... speak it seriously — is the belief of the Radicals ; and their belief they put forward as an argument . Institutions will come ! What misconception of the whole subject is betrayed by this vague hope ! Whence , I ask , are these ...
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... speaking , no prin- ciples at all . ” * It once occurred to me that Comte's observation was not so strictly true as I had formerly fancied ; and as the same objection may present itself to you , I will here examine it . This it is : Men ...
... speaking , no prin- ciples at all . ” * It once occurred to me that Comte's observation was not so strictly true as I had formerly fancied ; and as the same objection may present itself to you , I will here examine it . This it is : Men ...
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... are perpetually being cited as examples of the tendency I speak of ; but how little have these examples prevented succeeding generations from adding 66 other examples to them ! We round sonorous periods THE COMING REFORMATION . 43.
... are perpetually being cited as examples of the tendency I speak of ; but how little have these examples prevented succeeding generations from adding 66 other examples to them ! We round sonorous periods THE COMING REFORMATION . 43.
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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...