The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 16; Volume 20George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1867 - Electronic journals |
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... passed muster for five - and - thirty ; nor was the round vulgar figure of the engineer , awkward and familiar alternately , a bad foil for the very graceful attractions of his lordship's manner . " We should have been here two hours ...
... passed muster for five - and - thirty ; nor was the round vulgar figure of the engineer , awkward and familiar alternately , a bad foil for the very graceful attractions of his lordship's manner . " We should have been here two hours ...
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... passed across the earth , and we must lift our eyes to heaven . " The heaven to which they have to lift their eyes is very shadowy , far off , and problematical . The temple of their worship is the Alps ; their oracles are voices of the ...
... passed across the earth , and we must lift our eyes to heaven . " The heaven to which they have to lift their eyes is very shadowy , far off , and problematical . The temple of their worship is the Alps ; their oracles are voices of the ...
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... passed from them , and they stood pale and garish against the darkened sky . The stars came out , the moon shone , but not a cloud sailed over the untroubled heavens . Thus day after day for several weeks there was no change , till I ...
... passed from them , and they stood pale and garish against the darkened sky . The stars came out , the moon shone , but not a cloud sailed over the untroubled heavens . Thus day after day for several weeks there was no change , till I ...
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... passing many weeks among the high Alps it is a great pleasure to descend into the plains . The sunset , and sunrise , and the stars of Lombardy , its level horizons and vague misty distances , are a source of absolute relief after the ...
... passing many weeks among the high Alps it is a great pleasure to descend into the plains . The sunset , and sunrise , and the stars of Lombardy , its level horizons and vague misty distances , are a source of absolute relief after the ...
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... passing generations of industrialists - forming , for the most part , the stout main body of Philistinism - are sacrificed to it . In the same way , the result of all the games and sports which occupy the passing generation of boys and ...
... passing generations of industrialists - forming , for the most part , the stout main body of Philistinism - are sacrificed to it . In the same way , the result of all the games and sports which occupy the passing generation of boys and ...
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Page 51 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 546 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie ; His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 39 - And religion, the greatest and most important of the efforts by which the human race has manifested its impulse to perfect itself, — religion, that voice of the deepest human experience,— does not only enjoin and sanction the aim which is the great aim of culture, the aim of setting ourselves to ascertain what perfection is and to make it prevail...
Page 22 - The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, the engineers tell us," said Longworth, •' and it is the same with evidence.
Page 44 - But the idea of beauty and of a human nature perfect on all its sides, which is the dominant idea of poetry, is a true and invaluable idea, though it has not yet had the success that the idea of conquering the obvious faults of our animality, and of a human nature perfect on the moral side,— which is the dominant idea of religion,— has been enabled to have...
Page 53 - Plenty of people will try to give the masses, as they call them, an intellectual food prepared and adapted in the way they think proper for the actual condition of the masses. The ordinary popular literature is an example of this way of working on the masses.
Page 38 - The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence .of our nature, and to render an intelligent being yet more intelligent.
Page 553 - Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings; That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
Page 53 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely,— nourished and not bound by them.
Page 38 - ... worthy of blame and not of praise. For as there is a curiosity about intellectual matters which is futile, and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are, — which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable.