The Cornhill Magazine, Bind 36George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1877 |
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... Castlewood . Not that she could be an " old woman " yet , but she might look old , either by disguise , or through her own wickedness ; and everybody knows how suddenly those southern beauties fall off , alike in face and figure . Mrs ...
... Castlewood . Not that she could be an " old woman " yet , but she might look old , either by disguise , or through her own wickedness ; and everybody knows how suddenly those southern beauties fall off , alike in face and figure . Mrs ...
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... Castlewood had crossed my mind , because the initials were his own - those of Herbert William Castlewood . This strange coincidence - if it were , indeed , an accident - once more set me thinking . Might not this letter be from his ...
... Castlewood had crossed my mind , because the initials were his own - those of Herbert William Castlewood . This strange coincidence - if it were , indeed , an accident - once more set me thinking . Might not this letter be from his ...
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... Castlewood , or to Major Hockin ; but further considera- tion kept me from doing anything of the kind . In the first place , neither of them would do much good ; for my cousin's ill - health would prevent him from helping me , even if ...
... Castlewood , or to Major Hockin ; but further considera- tion kept me from doing anything of the kind . In the first place , neither of them would do much good ; for my cousin's ill - health would prevent him from helping me , even if ...
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... Castlewood ? Nothing ; all his desire was to do exactly what my father would have done : and my father had never done anything more than rove and roam his life out . To my mind this was dreadful now , when every new thing , rising round ...
... Castlewood ? Nothing ; all his desire was to do exactly what my father would have done : and my father had never done anything more than rove and roam his life out . To my mind this was dreadful now , when every new thing , rising round ...
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... Castlewood , was pricked in his conscience , and afraid of having his vile behaviour to my cousin disclosed . However , that idea of mine was wrong , and a faulty conception of simple youth . The wicked forgive themselves so quickly ...
... Castlewood , was pricked in his conscience , and afraid of having his vile behaviour to my cousin disclosed . However , that idea of mine was wrong , and a faulty conception of simple youth . The wicked forgive themselves so quickly ...
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Side 81 - There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
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Side 81 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a fivepound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Side 439 - Or I might have poured forth poetic strains which would have anticipated theory and seemed a voice from " the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming of things to come.
Side 450 - Yes, as rocks are, When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs; or as the moon is moved When wolves, with hunger pined, howl at her brightness.
Side 421 - They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars ; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five ; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half...