New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 115Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Hood, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1859 |
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... asking himself , all college time , why he should not be , for once , and so relieve the pressure at home . He possessed a fine gold watch , the gift of a friend : it was worth , at his own calculation , twenty pounds , and he thought ...
... asking himself , all college time , why he should not be , for once , and so relieve the pressure at home . He possessed a fine gold watch , the gift of a friend : it was worth , at his own calculation , twenty pounds , and he thought ...
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... asked Henry , coming in , and not suspecting that anybody was so near . " Ten pounds ! " uttered Rutterley , after examining the watch . " You college gentlemen have got a conscience ! I could not give more than half . " " That would be ...
... asked Henry , coming in , and not suspecting that anybody was so near . " Ten pounds ! " uttered Rutterley , after examining the watch . " You college gentlemen have got a conscience ! I could not give more than half . " " That would be ...
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... asked he , sharply , alluding to the other bass . " I don't know , " replied Henry . " He is not at service . " The organist took up one of the anthem books , with a jerk , and turned over its leaves . He came to the anthem , " I know ...
... asked he , sharply , alluding to the other bass . " I don't know , " replied Henry . " He is not at service . " The organist took up one of the anthem books , with a jerk , and turned over its leaves . He came to the anthem , " I know ...
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... asked Mrs. Beauclerc . " What was the matter with him the second time ? " " He fainted . But we soon brought him to , in the vestry . Young Wilberforce ran and got some water . They are walking home with him now . " " What caused him to ...
... asked Mrs. Beauclerc . " What was the matter with him the second time ? " " He fainted . But we soon brought him to , in the vestry . Young Wilberforce ran and got some water . They are walking home with him now . " " What caused him to ...
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... asked Henry . " How dull you are ! " cried Mr. St. John . " I am trying to be genteel , aud you won't let me . The ticket . Let me see it . " 66 They are in my jacket - pocket . Two . " He languidly reached forth the pieces , and Mr. St ...
... asked Henry . " How dull you are ! " cried Mr. St. John . " I am trying to be genteel , aud you won't let me . The ticket . Let me see it . " 66 They are in my jacket - pocket . Two . " He languidly reached forth the pieces , and Mr. St ...
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Page 185 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 473 - But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Page 275 - I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Page 475 - It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Page 472 - 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 473 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Page 167 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
Page 346 - Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done, nor ought he to be lamented who died so full of honours and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr ; the most awful that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.
Page 473 - These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.
Page 477 - Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.