The Cornhill Magazine, Band 39William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1879 |
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... present day ; that is to say , that a modern villa , plain , tile - roofed , and uncompromising , had been tacked , without rhyme or reason , or any sense of the fitness of things , on to one end of it ; whereby it had gained much in ...
... present day ; that is to say , that a modern villa , plain , tile - roofed , and uncompromising , had been tacked , without rhyme or reason , or any sense of the fitness of things , on to one end of it ; whereby it had gained much in ...
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... become a prosperous farmer , which is a rare phenomenon in Algeria even at the present day . For this result he was indebted partly , no doubt , to his possession of a moderate amount of capital , but in a much MADEMOISELLE DE MERSAC . 5.
... become a prosperous farmer , which is a rare phenomenon in Algeria even at the present day . For this result he was indebted partly , no doubt , to his possession of a moderate amount of capital , but in a much MADEMOISELLE DE MERSAC . 5.
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... present ; no doubt you are better informed than I. Where did this battle take place , Charles ? " " I was speaking of the battle of Trafalgar , sir , where , as you say , the French fleet has received a crushing blow . The army , I ...
... present ; no doubt you are better informed than I. Where did this battle take place , Charles ? " " I was speaking of the battle of Trafalgar , sir , where , as you say , the French fleet has received a crushing blow . The army , I ...
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... present Marquis ; and at the back of it , under the velvet of the frame , still remains a scrap of paper , on which is written , in faded ink , " Toujours fidèle : Coblence , 1806 , " an inscription of which the irony may have often ...
... present Marquis ; and at the back of it , under the velvet of the frame , still remains a scrap of paper , on which is written , in faded ink , " Toujours fidèle : Coblence , 1806 , " an inscription of which the irony may have often ...
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... present , the most speculative venture adopted . Formerly quine was allowed , the speculator having five numbers , and , if all five were drawn , receiving a million times the value of his stake . He should have received 43,949,268 ...
... present , the most speculative venture adopted . Formerly quine was allowed , the speculator having five numbers , and , if all five were drawn , receiving a million times the value of his stake . He should have received 43,949,268 ...
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Seite 303 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear ; Torturing th...
Seite 507 - Fame! — if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
Seite 427 - I endeavoured to recall the ideas, they were feeble and indistinct; one collection of terms, however, presented itself: and with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, " Nothing exists but thoughts! — -the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains...
Seite 304 - Through strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
Seite 55 - Highgate, where one might have seen 200,000 people of all ranks and degrees dispersed and lying along by their heaps of what they could save from the fire, deploring their loss, and though ready to perish for hunger and destitution, yet not asking one penny for relief, which to me appeared a stranger sight than any I had yet beheld.
Seite 291 - No work in our time gave such a blow to the philosophical mind of~ the country as the celebrated Enquiry concerning Political Justice. Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him; Paley an old woman; Edmund Burke a flashy sophist. Truth, moral truth, it was supposed, had here taken up its abode; and these were the oracles of thought. 'Throw aside your books of chemistry,' said Wordsworth to a young man, a student in the Temple, 'and read Godwin on Necessity*).
Seite 59 - York, or further west than Exeter. The ordinary day's journey of a flying coach was about fifty miles in the summer ; but in winter, when the ways were bad and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine season, but at Christmas not till the sixth day.
Seite 47 - Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life. I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead Nature.
Seite 296 - And women, too, frank, beautiful, and kind As the free heaven which rains fresh light and dew On the wide earth, past ; gentle radiant forms. From custom's evil taint exempt and pure; Speaking the wisdom once they could not think. Looking emotions once they feared to feel, And changed to all which once they dared not be.
Seite 58 - His coach was, with much difficulty, and by the help of many hands, brought after him entire. In general, carriages were taken to pieces at Conway, and borne, on the shoulders of stout Welsh peasants, to the Menai Straits.