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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Page 41
... leave a large margin for differences of opinion with respect to details — I see in the principle of private judgment , so loudly extolled , a potent source of anarchy , and I wish therefore to see it discredited , but discredited solely ...
... leave a large margin for differences of opinion with respect to details — I see in the principle of private judgment , so loudly extolled , a potent source of anarchy , and I wish therefore to see it discredited , but discredited solely ...
Page 44
... leaves the rudder in his hand . Theory is a distinct province , and should never attempt to usurp that of practice . To attempt such an usurpation would only end in crippling the efforts of pure specu- lation , and in confusing those of ...
... leaves the rudder in his hand . Theory is a distinct province , and should never attempt to usurp that of practice . To attempt such an usurpation would only end in crippling the efforts of pure specu- lation , and in confusing those of ...
Page 57
... leaves of the statute - book . It will do its work , and there will be men to work it . Nobody can either drive a coach - and - six , or steer a steam - boat through it - the mesh of its clauses will catch little fish , and will not ...
... leaves of the statute - book . It will do its work , and there will be men to work it . Nobody can either drive a coach - and - six , or steer a steam - boat through it - the mesh of its clauses will catch little fish , and will not ...
Page 58
... leaving the City statute - book a tabula rasa for the inscription of the same farce at the com- mencement of the next mayoralty . And yet , Heaven knows , if the nuisance be still uncorrected , it is not for want of nuisance - mongers ...
... leaving the City statute - book a tabula rasa for the inscription of the same farce at the com- mencement of the next mayoralty . And yet , Heaven knows , if the nuisance be still uncorrected , it is not for want of nuisance - mongers ...
Page 68
... leaving London that night — since , all being engaged in the riot , they were equally in danger of arrest . It is rather a curious fact , that the knock which caused them so much alarm , and which induced them to leave the house in ...
... leaving London that night — since , all being engaged in the riot , they were equally in danger of arrest . It is rather a curious fact , that the knock which caused them so much alarm , and which induced them to leave the house in ...
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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...