The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 3; Volume 11

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George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray
Smith, Elder., 1861
 

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Page 310 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 634 - My dear ! I am going away for a few days to Brighton. Here are all the keys of the house. You may open every door and closet, except the one at the end of the oak-room opposite the fireplace, with the little bronze Shakspeare on the mantelpiece (or what not).
Page 184 - ... river, of delicious reading of novels, magazines, and saunterings in many studios ; a land where men call each other by their Christian names; where most are poor, where almost all are young, and where, if a few oldsters do enter, it is because they have preserved more tenderly and carefully than other folks their youthful spirits, and the delightful capacity to be idle. I have lost my way to Bohemia now, but it is certain that Prague is the most picturesque city in the world.
Page 306 - Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.
Page 489 - ... can it be that a man is made happy when a state of anticipation such as this is brought to a close ? No ; when the husband walks back from the altar, he has already swallowed the choicest dainties of his banquet. The beef and pudding of married life are then in store for him, — or perhaps only the bread and cheese. Let him take care lest hardly a crust remain, — or perhaps not a crust.
Page 86 - The Major-General, therefore, in gratitude for and admiration of the brilliant deeds in arms achieved by General Havelock and his gallant troops, will cheerfully waive his rank on the occasion, and will accompany the force to Lucknow in his civil capacity as Chief Commissioner of Oude, tendering his military services to General Havelock as a volunteer.
Page 61 - I publish the Banns of Marriage between M. of , and N. of . If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is the first [second or third] time of asking.
Page 303 - There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.

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