The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 45William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1882 |
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... coming to this place might be fraught with some danger ; and I deeply regret to say that they have been realised . As soon as Dr. Cooper saw him he expressed to me the gravest anxiety about his state of mind . There was only one thing ...
... coming to this place might be fraught with some danger ; and I deeply regret to say that they have been realised . As soon as Dr. Cooper saw him he expressed to me the gravest anxiety about his state of mind . There was only one thing ...
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... coming down . " " Matters connected with poor Mr. Aird , of course . Oh , Mr. Vernon , how that shocked us all ! " " I was afraid it would , but we thought it better to tell you the whole truth . " And then they fell to talking about ...
... coming down . " " Matters connected with poor Mr. Aird , of course . Oh , Mr. Vernon , how that shocked us all ! " " I was afraid it would , but we thought it better to tell you the whole truth . " And then they fell to talking about ...
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... coming round that poor old man in his dotage and getting all his money ! I think , considering all things , he might have remembered you . Mr. Felspar , too , seems by all accounts to have feathered his own nest , which from what I ...
... coming round that poor old man in his dotage and getting all his money ! I think , considering all things , he might have remembered you . Mr. Felspar , too , seems by all accounts to have feathered his own nest , which from what I ...
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... coming to- morrow . " " Percival ? Percival ? " repeated Mrs. Toogood vaguely . " Oh , do you mean the man with the red hair ? I am so sorry ! " The Toogoods are such extremely hospitable people that it is hardly possible to conceive ...
... coming to- morrow . " " Percival ? Percival ? " repeated Mrs. Toogood vaguely . " Oh , do you mean the man with the red hair ? I am so sorry ! " The Toogoods are such extremely hospitable people that it is hardly possible to conceive ...
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... coming forward in the bright moonlight , became clearly visible to us as Miss Neville and Lacy ; and this was an argu- mentum ad rem for which my philosopher had perhaps hardly bargained . I regret to say that Florry had clasped her ...
... coming forward in the bright moonlight , became clearly visible to us as Miss Neville and Lacy ; and this was an argu- mentum ad rem for which my philosopher had perhaps hardly bargained . I regret to say that Florry had clasped her ...
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Página 107 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Página 116 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 114 - Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another.
Página 259 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 240 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Página 282 - It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate.
Página 282 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may...
Página 43 - in the sense of the bright ones," had been applied by the Vedic poets to the stars in general, and more particularly to that constellation which in the northern parts of India was the most prominent. The etymological meaning, "the bright stars," was forgotten; the popular meaning of Riksha (bear) was known to every one.
Página 283 - ... of consciousness or volition, or even contrary to the latter. As actions of a certain degree of complexity are brought about by mere mechanism, why may not actions of still greater complexity be the result of a more refined mechanism? What proof is there that brutes are other than a superior race of marionettes, which eat without pleasure, cry without pain, desire nothing, know nothing, and only simulate intelligence as a bee simulates a mathematician?
Página 487 - The announcement of the comet of 1832 may produce similar effects, unless the authority of the Academy apply a prompt remedy ; and this salutary intervention is at this moment implored by many benevolent persons.