The Cornhill Magazine, Volumen 45William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1882 |
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... thought it better he should be at Clover Cottage with ourselves and not at the hotel , which , as it turns out , was perhaps so far fortunate . Yesterday morning , when , as we thought , he was in his room , the doctor called and had a ...
... thought it better he should be at Clover Cottage with ourselves and not at the hotel , which , as it turns out , was perhaps so far fortunate . Yesterday morning , when , as we thought , he was in his room , the doctor called and had a ...
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... thought to become stars of greater or less brightness , according to the number of their victims slain in fight . " It would be easy to multiply examples of this stage of thought , and to show that star - stories existed on the banks of ...
... thought to become stars of greater or less brightness , according to the number of their victims slain in fight . " It would be easy to multiply examples of this stage of thought , and to show that star - stories existed on the banks of ...
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... thought it as well to lose no occasion of convincing him that my relations with Florry were of a most correct and cousinly kind . But when I proceeded to open the second I was obliged to be seized with a terrific fit of coughing , for ...
... thought it as well to lose no occasion of convincing him that my relations with Florry were of a most correct and cousinly kind . But when I proceeded to open the second I was obliged to be seized with a terrific fit of coughing , for ...
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... thought Pierre had told us , and Pierre thought Jean had spoken , and Jean - Pierre had not considered it his business to interfere ; and so there was a good all - round wrangle , in the midst of which Percival worked himself up into ...
... thought Pierre had told us , and Pierre thought Jean had spoken , and Jean - Pierre had not considered it his business to interfere ; and so there was a good all - round wrangle , in the midst of which Percival worked himself up into ...
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... thought you'd have been satisfied with spoiling my sport , and not wanted to spoil my dinner into the bargain . Deuce take it all , man ; you don't suppose I'm going to let you tell me what I'm to drink , do you ? " The upshot of it was ...
... thought you'd have been satisfied with spoiling my sport , and not wanted to spoil my dinner into the bargain . Deuce take it all , man ; you don't suppose I'm going to let you tell me what I'm to drink , do you ? " The upshot of it was ...
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Página 116 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 114 - Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another.
Página 259 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 240 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Página 282 - It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate.
Página 282 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may...
Página 43 - in the sense of the bright ones," had been applied by the Vedic poets to the stars in general, and more particularly to that constellation which in the northern parts of India was the most prominent. The etymological meaning, "the bright stars," was forgotten; the popular meaning of Riksha (bear) was known to every one.
Página 283 - ... of consciousness or volition, or even contrary to the latter. As actions of a certain degree of complexity are brought about by mere mechanism, why may not actions of still greater complexity be the result of a more refined mechanism? What proof is there that brutes are other than a superior race of marionettes, which eat without pleasure, cry without pain, desire nothing, know nothing, and only simulate intelligence as a bee simulates a mathematician?
Página 487 - The announcement of the comet of 1832 may produce similar effects, unless the authority of the Academy apply a prompt remedy ; and this salutary intervention is at this moment implored by many benevolent persons.