Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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... Happy , indeed , is he - and whether he succeed or fail in his ambition abroad , proud should he be of an ambition crowned at home - he who has made you desire to know more of politics ! " The girl felt the blood surge to her temples ...
... Happy , indeed , is he - and whether he succeed or fail in his ambition abroad , proud should he be of an ambition crowned at home - he who has made you desire to know more of politics ! " The girl felt the blood surge to her temples ...
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... happy people . And so they are , if gaiety and cheeri- ness and mutual good - will can be taken as satisfactory and sufficient evidence on the point . No nation has more laughter ; neither Irish- men nor Negroes surpass them there ; and ...
... happy people . And so they are , if gaiety and cheeri- ness and mutual good - will can be taken as satisfactory and sufficient evidence on the point . No nation has more laughter ; neither Irish- men nor Negroes surpass them there ; and ...
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... happy nation , and that their marriages , as a whole , present enviable results . It may be as well , however , be- fore going further , to attempt to give a definition of married happi- ness as it is sometimes comprehend- ed and ...
... happy nation , and that their marriages , as a whole , present enviable results . It may be as well , however , be- fore going further , to attempt to give a definition of married happi- ness as it is sometimes comprehend- ed and ...
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... happy . The evidence which can be collected by listening te opinions , including ill - natured scandal in all its forms , tends certainly to show that , accord- ing to their impressions of each other , most Frenchmen are singu- larly ...
... happy . The evidence which can be collected by listening te opinions , including ill - natured scandal in all its forms , tends certainly to show that , accord- ing to their impressions of each other , most Frenchmen are singu- larly ...
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... happy men of middle age , happy in their circumstances , men sleek and well nourished , who think it high - minded and poetical to be querulous towards the tract of life they are passing through . The truth is , most people go by looks ...
... happy men of middle age , happy in their circumstances , men sleek and well nourished , who think it high - minded and poetical to be querulous towards the tract of life they are passing through . The truth is , most people go by looks ...
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Page 604 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 261 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 604 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Page 273 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Page 604 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 347 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 75 - Even be it so ; yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet, And part far from them : sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes, He is a slave; the meanest we can meet!
Page 604 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Page 80 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable: I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 359 - The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.