Macmillan's Magazine, 36. köideMacmillan and Company, 1877 |
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name . He rose hastily and stood leaning upon his writing - table to see who it was that followed Eastwood into the room after a minute's interval . It seemed scarcely possible to him that it could be his son . " Randolph ! " he said ...
name . He rose hastily and stood leaning upon his writing - table to see who it was that followed Eastwood into the room after a minute's interval . It seemed scarcely possible to him that it could be his son . " Randolph ! " he said ...
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... write a book , has tact , style , taste , considerateness , senses of proportion , and a good eye for the beginnings and ends of things . The third volume , then , tells us little about the person to whom they relate . The two volumes ...
... write a book , has tact , style , taste , considerateness , senses of proportion , and a good eye for the beginnings and ends of things . The third volume , then , tells us little about the person to whom they relate . The two volumes ...
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... write , and that money , although welcome when it came , was never her motive . This perhaps a little savours of affectation . Nobody would dream of suspecting Miss Martineau of writing anything that she did not believe to be true or ...
... write , and that money , although welcome when it came , was never her motive . This perhaps a little savours of affectation . Nobody would dream of suspecting Miss Martineau of writing anything that she did not believe to be true or ...
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... writer of this character . They are far from being wanting - many of them - in the genuine interest of good story - telling . They are rapid , definite , and without a trace of either slovenli- ness or fatigue . We are amazed as we ...
... writer of this character . They are far from being wanting - many of them - in the genuine interest of good story - telling . They are rapid , definite , and without a trace of either slovenli- ness or fatigue . We are amazed as we ...
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... write such an account of that country as she had written of the United States . And we wish at this very hour that ... writing almost entirely about fact and the constraint of the effort to be always correct , and to bear with- out ...
... write such an account of that country as she had written of the United States . And we wish at this very hour that ... writing almost entirely about fact and the constraint of the effort to be always correct , and to bear with- out ...
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Page 380 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 295 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 4 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 296 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 296 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 216 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire.
Page 493 - M'ôter, pour faire bien, du grenier de céans Cette longue lunette à faire peur aux gens, Et cent brimborions dont l'aspect importune; Ne point aller chercher ce qu'on fait dans la lune, Et vous mêler un peu de ce qu'on fait chez vous, Où nous voyons aller tout sens dessus dessous.
Page 493 - Saturne, et Mars, dont je n'ai point affaire; Et dans ce vain savoir, qu'on va chercher si loin, On ne sait comme va mon pot, dont j'ai besoin. Mes gens à la science aspirent pour vous plaire , Et tous ne font rien moins que ce qu'ils ont à faire; Raisonner est l'emploi de toute ma maison; Et le raisonnement en bannit la raison.
Page 4 - Christian charity's sake, to admonish us of the same in writing ; and we, upon our honour and fidelity, do promise unto him satisfaction from the mouth of God, that is, from his holy scriptures, or else reformation of that which he shall prove to be amiss.
Page 375 - But see, his face is black and full of blood, His eye-balls further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man; His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued...