The Cornhill Magazine

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Smith, Elder and Company, 1918
 

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Pagina 76 - Ham. Do you see yonder cloud, that's almost in shape of a camel? Pol. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Ham. Methinks, it is like a weasel. • Pol. It is backed like a weasel. Ham. Or, like a whale ? Pol. Very like a whale.
Pagina 560 - Fire!" is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting...
Pagina 452 - Ce style figuré dont on fait vanité Sort du bon caractère et de la vérité ; Ce n'est que jeu de mots, qu'affectation pure, Et ce n'est point ainsi que parle la nature.
Pagina 560 - Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out ; and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Pagina 560 - With other eyes, too, could I now look upon my fellow man ; ' with an infinite Love, an infinite Pity. Poor, wandering, ' wayward man ! Art thou not tried, and beaten with stripes, ' even as I am ? Ever, whether thou bear the royal mantle ' or the beggar's gabardine, art thou not so weary, so heavy' laden ; and thy Bed of Rest is but a grave.
Pagina 560 - ... miles, or say only to the South of Spain ; and fed there till wanted. And now to that same spot in the South of Spain, are thirty similar French...
Pagina 560 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war ? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain 'Natural Enemies' of the French, there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men; Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even...
Pagina 188 - America, which is beyond all other countries the country of a "career open to talents," a country, moreover, in which political life is unusually keen and political ambition widely diffused, it might be expected that the highest place would always be won by a man of brilliant gifts. But...
Pagina 567 - Truly, it has been said, emphatically in these days ought it to be repeated: A loving Heart is the beginning of all Knowledge. This it is that opens the whole mind, quickens every faculty of the intellect to do its fit work, that of knowing; and therefrom, by sure consequence, of vividly uttering-forth. Other secret for being "graphic" is there none, worth having: but this is an all-sufficient one.
Pagina 78 - I told her that language had been used which made change almost impossible. Well, then, would not the Cabinet change, when they knew the perils with which his loss would surround them? I was obliged to keep to iron facts. What a curious scene...

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