Macmillan's Magazine, 17. köideMacmillan and Company, 1868 |
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... person - Mr . Milverton . He told me that the simplicity and directness of my advertisement had caught his attention , and that if I were anything like what I represented myself to be , I should suit him very well . It was agreed that I ...
... person - Mr . Milverton . He told me that the simplicity and directness of my advertisement had caught his attention , and that if I were anything like what I represented myself to be , I should suit him very well . It was agreed that I ...
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... persons , hard upon very He was authors , " who never say or do anything but what is sure to meet with general acceptation . He used to quote that saying of Benjamin Constant's about some " safe " person : " Il vient toujours au secours ...
... persons , hard upon very He was authors , " who never say or do anything but what is sure to meet with general acceptation . He used to quote that saying of Benjamin Constant's about some " safe " person : " Il vient toujours au secours ...
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... person . ( Here I must remark that it is impossible not to love this man , Sir John Ellesmere . I always feel I do not do him justice . His sayings seem so hard sometimes , so satirical , so perverse ; but the manner of saying them ...
... person . ( Here I must remark that it is impossible not to love this man , Sir John Ellesmere . I always feel I do not do him justice . His sayings seem so hard sometimes , so satirical , so perverse ; but the manner of saying them ...
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... person , Lady Ellesmere ! You see , from that respectful stooping of the shoulders , though they have their backs turned to us , how she is drink- ing in discourse about the " true " and the beautiful , " and the " absolute , " and the ...
... person , Lady Ellesmere ! You see , from that respectful stooping of the shoulders , though they have their backs turned to us , how she is drink- ing in discourse about the " true " and the beautiful , " and the " absolute , " and the ...
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... person or recognising the voice , you heard the words , " She is my sister , " you knew if it was a man that was speaking ,, because a man's sister was represented by a different word from that of a woman's sister . But perhaps the ...
... person or recognising the voice , you heard the words , " She is my sister , " you knew if it was a man that was speaking ,, because a man's sister was represented by a different word from that of a woman's sister . But perhaps the ...
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Page 17 - Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary, that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 67 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 197 - The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!" to all the house: "Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Page 157 - GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea— Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong— Nay, but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she: Give her the glory of going on, and still to be.
Page 197 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek...
Page 202 - To the man who plays well the highest stakes are paid with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without haste, but without remorse. My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which, Eetzsch has depicted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul.
Page 259 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 202 - The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without haste, but without remorse.
Page 197 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Page 196 - Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? DoCT. Do you mark that? LADY M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.