New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 115Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1859 |
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... better built , better and more salubriously situated , and is considered as the paradise of Japan , and the beauty of its women is said to be not the least of its titles to pre - eminence . An attempt has been made by Siebold to show ...
... better built , better and more salubriously situated , and is considered as the paradise of Japan , and the beauty of its women is said to be not the least of its titles to pre - eminence . An attempt has been made by Siebold to show ...
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... better , thank you , sir . I am so very pleased to see you , " he continued : " but I cannot stop now . The bell has been going ten minutes . " " In the choir still ? Are you the senior boy ? " " Senior chorister , but not senior boy ...
... better , thank you , sir . I am so very pleased to see you , " he continued : " but I cannot stop now . The bell has been going ten minutes . " " In the choir still ? Are you the senior boy ? " " Senior chorister , but not senior boy ...
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... better to send for you , sir , than to have a disturbance here , " cried Henry Arkell . " A disturbance here ! You had better not attempt it . " " Don't the king's scholars take precedence of the quiresters , sir ? " demanded Prattleton ...
... better to send for you , sir , than to have a disturbance here , " cried Henry Arkell . " A disturbance here ! You had better not attempt it . " " Don't the king's scholars take precedence of the quiresters , sir ? " demanded Prattleton ...
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... better ? " 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 ...
... better ? " 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 ...
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... better s for that's what you are likely to do . As to falling in Georgina Be clerc's opinion , which you seem to estimate so highly ( it's more tha do ) , if you pledged all you possess in a lump , and yourself into bargain , she would ...
... better s for that's what you are likely to do . As to falling in Georgina Be clerc's opinion , which you seem to estimate so highly ( it's more tha do ) , if you pledged all you possess in a lump , and yourself into bargain , she would ...
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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.