The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 7

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George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray
Smith, Elder., 1863 - Electronic journals

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Page 796 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Page 578 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which, is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them, and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Page 575 - The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too. It flashed upon her mind that the problem before her was essentially the same as that which had lain before Savonarola — the problem where the sacredness of obedience ended and where the sacredness of rebellion began. To her, as to him, there had come one of those moments in life when the soul must dare to act on its own warrant, not only without external law to appeal to, but in the face of a law which is not unarmed with Divine lightnings...
Page 745 - ... little black spots that are apt to break out in their faces, and sometimes rise in very odd figures. I have observed that those little blemishes wear off very soon ; but, when they disappear in one part of the face, they are very apt to break out in another, insomuch that I have seen a spot upon the forehead in the afternoon, which was upon the chin in the morning.
Page 238 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 168 - And you think nothing of the sorrow and the wrong that are within the walls of the city where you dwell : you would leave your place empty, when it ought to be filled with your pity and your labour. If there is wickedness in the streets, your steps should shine with the light of purity ; if there is a cry of anguish, you, my daughter, because you know the meaning of the cry, should be there to still it. My beloved daughter, sorrow has come to teach you a new worship : the sign of it hangs before...
Page 144 - Eta (11) is a very singular oval vacuity, quite devoid of nebula, of a shape somewhat resembling the figure 8, only with its two compartments communicating ; and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval were then (1835-1838) completely closed, the southern especially, being bounded...
Page 23 - ... It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound. But there was a passionate voice speaking within her that presently nullified all such muffled murmurs. " It cannot be ! I cannot be subject to him. He is false. I shrink from him. I despise him ! " She snatched the ring from her finger, and laid it on the table against the pen with which she meant to write. Again she felt that there could be no law for her...
Page 695 - ... the struggle of a mind possessed by a never-silent hunger after purity and simplicity, yet caught in a tangle of egoistic demands, false ideas, and difficult outward conditions that made simplicity impossible.
Page 156 - Yes," said Giannozzo Pucci, laying his hand on Tito's shoulder, " the fact is, Tito mio, you can help us better than if you were Ulysses himself, for I am convinced that Ulysses often made himself disagreeable. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. And there is not a soul in Florence who could undertake a business like this journey to Rome, for example, with the same safety that you can.

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