The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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... mind you , at the price of swearing fealty to the Republic of Genoa - this and the repayment of a beggarly thousand piastres which the Republic had advanced to pay the captain of the ship which brought them , and to buy food and ...
... mind you , at the price of swearing fealty to the Republic of Genoa - this and the repayment of a beggarly thousand piastres which the Republic had advanced to pay the captain of the ship which brought them , and to buy food and ...
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... mind many a story was told . When inquiring after Lord Lansdowne of Mr. James Howard , he called him back and said , ' I mean the present Lord Lansdowne . ' Lord Dudley , Foreign Secretary in Canning's Administration , was commonly ...
... mind many a story was told . When inquiring after Lord Lansdowne of Mr. James Howard , he called him back and said , ' I mean the present Lord Lansdowne . ' Lord Dudley , Foreign Secretary in Canning's Administration , was commonly ...
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... having obtained the entrée into Lady Agnes Foker's house in Grosvenor Street , he must mind and never neglect to leave his card there when he came to town . The Major's famous valet , Morgan , was not content 30 MAYFAIR AND THACKERAY .
... having obtained the entrée into Lady Agnes Foker's house in Grosvenor Street , he must mind and never neglect to leave his card there when he came to town . The Major's famous valet , Morgan , was not content 30 MAYFAIR AND THACKERAY .
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... mind , is to be heard in this Court every hour in the day . The lawyer who has just been vilifying me would do the same to you , gentlemen , if he were paid for it . These fellows in wigs are always at the service of the highest bidder ...
... mind , is to be heard in this Court every hour in the day . The lawyer who has just been vilifying me would do the same to you , gentlemen , if he were paid for it . These fellows in wigs are always at the service of the highest bidder ...
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... mind it as some would have minded ; and he never spoke words that frightened her ( she was not of the kind that is frightened easily ) except once , and never was really angry with her except about one matter , and that a matter in ...
... mind it as some would have minded ; and he never spoke words that frightened her ( she was not of the kind that is frightened easily ) except once , and never was really angry with her except about one matter , and that a matter in ...
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Página 546 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Página 411 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 316 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Página 728 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, And the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves.
Página 42 - Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.
Página 318 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 41 - Mr. Leach Made a speech, Angry, neat, but wrong : Mr. Hart, On the other part, Was heavy, dull, and long; Mr. Parker Made the case darker, Which was dark enough without : Mr. Cooke Cited his book, And the Chancellor said — I doubt.
Página 319 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 318 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Página 737 - And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. As 'twixt two equal armies fate Suspends uncertain victory, Our souls (which to advance their state Were gone out) hung 'twixt her and me. And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day the same our postures were, And we said nothing all the day.