The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 97Chapman and Hall (Adams and Francis; E.W. Allen), 1853 |
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... believe . Men ne- glect their wives — after a time , at least ; and women console themselves as best they can some in one way , some in another . All women try to govern their husbands , and most succeed in the attempt . " : " You've ...
... believe . Men ne- glect their wives — after a time , at least ; and women console themselves as best they can some in one way , some in another . All women try to govern their husbands , and most succeed in the attempt . " : " You've ...
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... believe , " he added , with a certain significance , " that he has been disappointed by some person from whom he expected money . I don't think you could do wrong in assisting him , sir . " “ I must first see his wife , " the old ...
... believe , " he added , with a certain significance , " that he has been disappointed by some person from whom he expected money . I don't think you could do wrong in assisting him , sir . " “ I must first see his wife , " the old ...
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... believe his eyes . Are his wife and Frank going up - stairs ? Yes , and very quickly too . They are laughing loudly all the time . And everybody else laughs too ; except Jonas - and the bailiffs . The latter laugh on the wrong side of ...
... believe his eyes . Are his wife and Frank going up - stairs ? Yes , and very quickly too . They are laughing loudly all the time . And everybody else laughs too ; except Jonas - and the bailiffs . The latter laugh on the wrong side of ...
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... believe he hardly knows himself . He then did something on the Stock - exchange ; perhaps you know what it is , I don't , when people don't make their own as other folks ' fortunes ? Oh , lame duck , ' very well , he was one . After ...
... believe he hardly knows himself . He then did something on the Stock - exchange ; perhaps you know what it is , I don't , when people don't make their own as other folks ' fortunes ? Oh , lame duck , ' very well , he was one . After ...
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... believe - used to supply the bon - bons at the city companies ' dinners ; this Irishman married her , spent her money - she helping - and then disappeared . His hat and greatcoat , card - case and empty pocket - book were found on the ...
... believe - used to supply the bon - bons at the city companies ' dinners ; this Irishman married her , spent her money - she helping - and then disappeared . His hat and greatcoat , card - case and empty pocket - book were found on the ...
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Page 350 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 468 - Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way.
Page 232 - THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must go forth into the country; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wander through parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about country churches; attend wakes...
Page 362 - And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2.
Page 355 - Among ourselves, the Philosophy of Mind, after a rickety infancy, which never reached the vigour of manhood, fell suddenly into decay, languished and finally died out, with its last amiable cultivator, Professor Stewart. In no nation but Germany has any decisive effort been made in psychological science ; not to speak of any decisive result.
Page 119 - I know not : one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and...
Page 469 - A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault ; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt ; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet. Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.
Page 5 - You shall swear by custom of confession, That you ne.er made nuptial transgression ; Nor since you were married man and wife, By household brawls or contentious strife, Or otherwise at bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or in word ; Or since the parish clerk said Amen...
Page 406 - ... of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all. On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woollen stockings ; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say yah Mynheer, or yah ya Vrouw, to any question that was asked them ; behaving, in all things, like decent welleducated damsels.
Page 119 - The sanction; till, demanding formal proof, And seeking it in everything, I lost All feeling of conviction, and, in fine, Sick, wearied out with contrarieties, Yielded up moral questions in despair.