The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1847 |
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... persons of his peculiar degree of capacity , and Tommy Hicks was by no means an innocent . The person to whom his shouts were addressed had reason to feel that such was the case , for following incautiously the directions he received ...
... persons of his peculiar degree of capacity , and Tommy Hicks was by no means an innocent . The person to whom his shouts were addressed had reason to feel that such was the case , for following incautiously the directions he received ...
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... person who followed . The stranger stood and gazed around him for a moment or two , mur- muring , " This is very pleasant . Well , it can't be helped ; I have passed worse nights than this may be , let it rain as hard as it will , and ...
... person who followed . The stranger stood and gazed around him for a moment or two , mur- muring , " This is very pleasant . Well , it can't be helped ; I have passed worse nights than this may be , let it rain as hard as it will , and ...
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... person and the dress , and it was this discrepancy which , as I have said , puzzled the family of Ben Halliday . As the moments passed by , however , their doubts ceased . There was no mistaking the station of their guest after a ...
... person and the dress , and it was this discrepancy which , as I have said , puzzled the family of Ben Halliday . As the moments passed by , however , their doubts ceased . There was no mistaking the station of their guest after a ...
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... person to be his steward in Ireland , the Irish being so disposed to hang those sort of gentry . " " Oh , " replied his lordship , " I always take care to send one who deserves to be hanged . " What think you of 300,000l . as a ...
... person to be his steward in Ireland , the Irish being so disposed to hang those sort of gentry . " " Oh , " replied his lordship , " I always take care to send one who deserves to be hanged . " What think you of 300,000l . as a ...
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... person connected with Carlton House . The " shrug " seemed to convey much . A part of the Naval Club refuses , I ... persons , and seldom comes to town . The proceedings against the St. James's Chronicle alluded to are said to be " an ...
... person connected with Carlton House . The " shrug " seemed to convey much . A part of the Naval Club refuses , I ... persons , and seldom comes to town . The proceedings against the St. James's Chronicle alluded to are said to be " an ...
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Página 112 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Página 306 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke ; Care no more to clothe, and eat ; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 512 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Página 117 - When years, perhaps, of care and toil have matured an improvement ; when the husbandman sees new crops ripening to his skill and industry; the moment he is ready to put his sickle to the grain, he finds himself compelled to divide his harvest with a stranger. Tithes are a tax not only upon industry, but upon that industry which feeds mankind ; upon that species of exertion which it is the aim of all wise laws to cherish and promote...
Página 335 - A further instance of economy was announced by the chancellor of the exchequer in the House of Commons last night, namely, the discontinuance of the officers
Página 520 - When I remember that the Creator, since light sprang out of darkness, has deigned to reveal Himself to His creature only in one land, that in that land He assumed a manly form, and met a human death, I feel persuaded that the country sanctified by such intercourse and such events must be endowed with marvellous and peculiar qualities, which man may not in all ages be competent to penetrate, but which, nevertheless, at all times exercise an irresistible influence upon his destiny. It is these qualities...
Página 160 - Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw.
Página 124 - I hold that the greatest friend to man is labour; that knowledge without toil, if possible, were worthless; that toil in pursuit of knowledge is the best knowledge we can attain; that the continuous effort for fame is nobler than fame itself; that it is not wealth suddenly acquired which is deserving of homage, but the virtues which a man exercises in the slow pursuit of wealth, — the abilities so called forth, the self-denials so imposed ; in a word, that Labour and Patience are the true schoolmasters...
Página 500 - Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine: A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Página 117 - Lastly, amongst the negative qualities of our religion, as it came out of the hands of its Founder and his apostles, we may reckon its complete abstraction from all views either of ecclesiastical or civil policy ; or, to meet a language much in fashion with some men, from the politics either of priests or statesmen. Christ's declaration, that " his kingdom was not of this world...