The Childishness and Brutality of the Time: Some Plain Truths in Plain Language. Supplemented by Sundry Discursive Essays and NarrativesVizetelly & Company, 1883 - 339 стор. |
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Сторінка 79 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Сторінка 329 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Сторінка 68 - ... to issue in petroleum one day, unless some other gospel than that of the ' dismal science ' come to illuminate it. Two things are pretty sure to me : the first is, that 'Capital and Labour' never can or will agree together till they both first of all decide on doing their work faithfully throughout, and like men of conscience and honour, whose highest aim is to behave like faithful citizens of this universe and obey the Eternal Commandment of Almighty God who made them.
Сторінка 339 - Mr. Vizetelly's tale has all the interest of a romance which is too strange not to be true. . . . His summing up of the evidence, both negative and positive, which exculpates Marie-Antoinette from any complicity whatever with the scandalous intrigue in which she was represented as bearing a part, is admirable.— Saturday Review. We can without fear of contradiction describe Mr. Henry Vizetelly's " Story of the Diamond Necklace" as a bnok of thrilling interest.
Сторінка 43 - The last boat was about to push off, when a young midshipman went back to see if any one was still on board. To his surprise there sat a man on deck with a hatchet in his hand, with which he had broken open several...
Сторінка 64 - Jungle swallowed up the walls,' said Hathi. 'And what more?' said Mowgli. 'As much good ground as I can walk over in two nights from the east to the west, and from the north to the south as much as I can walk over in three nights, the Jungle took.
Сторінка 38 - There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. The Old Bachelor was written for amusement in the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant ambition of wit.
Сторінка 43 - I have lived a poor wretch all my life, and I am determined to die rich." His remonstrances were answered only by another flourish of the hatchet; and he was left to his fate.
Сторінка 68 - What a contrast between now and say only a hundred years ago! At that latter date, or still more conspicuously for ages before that, all England awoke to its work with an invocation to the Eternal Maker to bless them in their day's labour and help them to do it well. Now, all England — shopkeepers, workmen, all manner of competing labourers — awaken as with...
Сторінка 339 - It was like your imperence to come smouchin' round here, looking after de white folks' washin." In One Volume, demy 8ro, 560 pages, price 12s., the FIFTH EDITION of AMERICA REVISITED, FROM THE BAY OF NEW YORK TO THE GULF OF MEXICO, & FROM LAKE MICHIGAN TO THE PACIFIC, INCLUDING A SOJOURN AMONG THE MORMONS IN SALT LAKE CITY.