The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 17William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1868 - Electronic journals |
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... seem to notice this momentary ebullition . To me it seems that , of the two , my sympathy is with Miss Triquett . Let us be absurd , by all means , if that is the price which must be paid for something which is well worth its price ...
... seem to notice this momentary ebullition . To me it seems that , of the two , my sympathy is with Miss Triquett . Let us be absurd , by all means , if that is the price which must be paid for something which is well worth its price ...
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... seems a contradiction to write of this dull and unimpressionable woman now and then waking and experiencing some vague emotion and realization of experiences which had been slowly gathering , and apparently unnoticed , for a long time ...
... seems a contradiction to write of this dull and unimpressionable woman now and then waking and experiencing some vague emotion and realization of experiences which had been slowly gathering , and apparently unnoticed , for a long time ...
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... seems impossible that anybody should have seriously listened to a complaint so absurd and unlikely . But it must be remembered that many of the people present were already ill disposed , that some of them were weak , and others stupid ...
... seems impossible that anybody should have seriously listened to a complaint so absurd and unlikely . But it must be remembered that many of the people present were already ill disposed , that some of them were weak , and others stupid ...
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... seems to me to be exactly Jacobinical language , as I called it . Granted that Comte himself had even a " preposterous veneration for the past , " then the English Comtist should be grateful to me for recalling him to the benevolent ...
... seems to me to be exactly Jacobinical language , as I called it . Granted that Comte himself had even a " preposterous veneration for the past , " then the English Comtist should be grateful to me for recalling him to the benevolent ...
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... seems to be threatening us . But how to organize this authority , or to what hands to entrust the wielding of it ? How to get your State , summing up the right reason of the community , and giving effect to it , as circumstances may ...
... seems to be threatening us . But how to organize this authority , or to what hands to entrust the wielding of it ? How to get your State , summing up the right reason of the community , and giving effect to it , as circumstances may ...
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Page 652 - The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are ; the uppermost idea with Hebraism is conduct and obedience. Nothing can do away with this ineffaceable difference. The Greek quarrel with the body and its desires is, that they hinder right thinking, the Hebrew quarrel with them is, that they hinder right acting.
Page 535 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Page 543 - Sir, after making great professions, he had, for many years, taken no notice of me ; but when my Dictionary was coming out, he fell a scribbling in ' The World
Page 519 - His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft. Tom never from his word departed His virtues were so rare ; His friends were many and true-hearted, His Poll was kind and fair : And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly; Ah, many's the time and oft!
Page 24 - Violent indignation with the past, abstract systems of renovation applied wholesale, a new doctrine drawn up in black and white for elaborating down to the very smallest details a rational society for the future,— these are the ways of Jacobinism.
Page 137 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART., WITH THE FOREGOING POEM.
Page 654 - ... from the simplicity and charm of this ideal, Hellenism, and human life in the hands of Hellenism, is invested with a kind of aerial ease, clearness, and radiancy ; they are full of what we call sweetness and light. Difficulties are kept out of view, and the beauty and rationalness of the ideal have all our thoughts. " The best man is he who most tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting himself...
Page 514 - D'ye mind me, a sailor should be every inch All as one as a piece of the ship, And with her brave the world without offering to flinch From the moment the anchor's atrip.
Page 226 - ... expanded in this manner : it appeared sometimes Bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders.
Page 92 - It was a consuming vexation to my father, that my mother never asked the meaning of a thing she did not understand. — —That she is not a woman of science, my father would say — is her misfortune — but she might ask a question. — My mother never did. In short, she went out of the world at last without knowing whether it turned round, or stood still. My father had officiously told her above a thousand times which way it was, — but she always forgot.