Fraser's Magazine, Volume 5Longmans, Green, 1872 |
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... believe . Such confidence may indicate a pious frame of mind , but like all beliefs in the invisible , is apt to turn the heads of those who sur- render themselves to ideas . So sure are we becoming that all old things were wrong , that ...
... believe . Such confidence may indicate a pious frame of mind , but like all beliefs in the invisible , is apt to turn the heads of those who sur- render themselves to ideas . So sure are we becoming that all old things were wrong , that ...
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... believe now that we grew somehow out of apes , and the apes originally out of jelly- fish ; that a future life is an illusion , and God Almighty a name for the universe . Minds slow to move may adhere to their old convictions ; but it ...
... believe now that we grew somehow out of apes , and the apes originally out of jelly- fish ; that a future life is an illusion , and God Almighty a name for the universe . Minds slow to move may adhere to their old convictions ; but it ...
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... believe that the franchise would open the gates of Paradise to them . So far the effect has been to make the constituencies one degree more corrupt than they were before . Those chiefly used their vote who could turn it to immediate ...
... believe that the franchise would open the gates of Paradise to them . So far the effect has been to make the constituencies one degree more corrupt than they were before . Those chiefly used their vote who could turn it to immediate ...
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... believe to be as childish as attempts to make water run uphill . The Prime Minister has more than once expressed a wish to see working - men in the House of Com- mons . With a natural affection for a trade of which he is himself a ...
... believe to be as childish as attempts to make water run uphill . The Prime Minister has more than once expressed a wish to see working - men in the House of Com- mons . With a natural affection for a trade of which he is himself a ...
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... believe . ' Is that the man ? ' ' It is , ' is the expression of absolute belief . I believe it is , ' is the ex- pression of qualified belief . ' Do you swear positively or only to the best of your belief ? ' is a question which I ...
... believe . ' Is that the man ? ' ' It is , ' is the expression of absolute belief . I believe it is , ' is the ex- pression of qualified belief . ' Do you swear positively or only to the best of your belief ? ' is a question which I ...
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Page 152 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 293 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 369 - A neutral government is bound— First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace...
Page 534 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Page 96 - ... a child of singular abilities: quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt, bodily or mentally — to suggest that something might have been spared, as certainly it might have been, to place me at any common school. Our friends, I take it, were tired out. No one made any sign. My father and mother were quite satisfied. They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school and going to Cambridge.
Page 96 - I could not resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastrycooks' doors, and spent in that the money I should have kept for my dinner. Then, I went without my dinner, or bought a roll or a slice of pudding.
Page 95 - But, in the ease of his temper, and the straitness of his means, he appeared to have utterly lost at this time the idea of educating me at all, and to have utterly put from him the notion that I had any claim upon him, in that regard, whatever. So I degenerated into cleaning his boots of a morning, and my own ; and making myself useful in the work of the little house; and looking after my younger brothers and sisters (we were now six in all) ; and going on such poor errands as arose out of our poor...
Page 367 - Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries and of making satisfactory provision for the future...
Page 648 - I've done my share as an ordinary man of business. Somebody has said it's a fine thing to make two ears of corn grow where only one grew before; but, sir...