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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It was too late for Mary to repair her omission , as they were now in the middle of November ; and , in truth , it was not the kind of thing to give her much uneasiness . She was therefore surprised THE DREAMER AND THE WORKER . 5.
It was too late for Mary to repair her omission , as they were now in the middle of November ; and , in truth , it was not the kind of thing to give her much uneasiness . She was therefore surprised THE DREAMER AND THE WORKER . 5.
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Mr. Walton's meditations were often made up of writing - copy maxims , though they dawned upon his mind like new truths to a philosopher . He thought of a motto for his carriage -- the carriage he intended to “ set up ; ” and the first ...
Mr. Walton's meditations were often made up of writing - copy maxims , though they dawned upon his mind like new truths to a philosopher . He thought of a motto for his carriage -- the carriage he intended to “ set up ; ” and the first ...
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We may do great wrong to truth , without knowing it . We may sometimes be too hasty in thinking ourselves wise ; and too ready to deny the existence or good of a thing , merely because we do not understand it .
We may do great wrong to truth , without knowing it . We may sometimes be too hasty in thinking ourselves wise ; and too ready to deny the existence or good of a thing , merely because we do not understand it .
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Let us be cautious , then , how we attempt to crush any new principle of science or philosophy , which displays any signs of comprising some wonderful reality or truth , merely because the world knows nothing of the means by which these ...
Let us be cautious , then , how we attempt to crush any new principle of science or philosophy , which displays any signs of comprising some wonderful reality or truth , merely because the world knows nothing of the means by which these ...
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he were anxious to impress her with the importance of the subject more than anybody else , -and , to say the truth , his attentions to her were of rather a marked kind , at times , when Archer's back happened to be turned .
he were anxious to impress her with the importance of the subject more than anybody else , -and , to say the truth , his attentions to her were of rather a marked kind , at times , when Archer's back happened to be turned .
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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...