Joseph Jenkins; or, Leaves from the life of a literary man, by the author of 'Random recollections of the Lords and Commons'.1843 |
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... answer the question in as few words as possible . Well , then , the truth was , that so eager were the Cogers to give vent to their Ra- dicalism at so momentous a national crisis , that they endeavoured to speak by the dozen at a time ...
... answer the question in as few words as possible . Well , then , the truth was , that so eager were the Cogers to give vent to their Ra- dicalism at so momentous a national crisis , that they endeavoured to speak by the dozen at a time ...
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... answered Mr. Figure , advancing to his desk , and snatching up his ledger . " Oh , don't trouble yourself to refer to your book ; I only want a rough guess , " said Mr. Jenkins . " Why , it will , perhaps , be more satisfactory to see ...
... answered Mr. Figure , advancing to his desk , and snatching up his ledger . " Oh , don't trouble yourself to refer to your book ; I only want a rough guess , " said Mr. Jenkins . " Why , it will , perhaps , be more satisfactory to see ...
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... answered Mr. Jenkins , with considerable indignation . " Not at all ; by no means ; only a business question , sir , " remarked the bibliopole , with the most perfect nonchalance . " We can settle at some other time . You don't mean to ...
... answered Mr. Jenkins , with considerable indignation . " Not at all ; by no means ; only a business question , sir , " remarked the bibliopole , with the most perfect nonchalance . " We can settle at some other time . You don't mean to ...
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... answered the biblio- pole . " I have called for the purpose of consult- ing you about the publication of a volume of poems . " " Mr. Jenkins , would you do me the favour to call upon me any time to - morrow ? " said the bibliopole ...
... answered the biblio- pole . " I have called for the purpose of consult- ing you about the publication of a volume of poems . " " Mr. Jenkins , would you do me the favour to call upon me any time to - morrow ? " said the bibliopole ...
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... answered Joseph , " that great mechanical dexterity , as well as superior literary taste , is necessary to constitute an efficient re- porter ; but I think that , if I possess the latter qualification , I shall not be found wanting in ...
... answered Joseph , " that great mechanical dexterity , as well as superior literary taste , is necessary to constitute an efficient re- porter ; but I think that , if I possess the latter qualification , I shall not be found wanting in ...
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Page 85 - And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 86 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,...
Page 86 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 203 - And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song: And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.
Page 252 - If he does not know absolutely every agent in the universe, the one that he does not know may be God. If he is not himself the chief agent in the universe, and does not know what is so, that which is so may be God. If he is not in absolute possession of all the propositions that constitute universal truth, the one which he wants may be, that there is a God. If he cannot with certainty assign the cause of all that he perceives to exist, that cause may be a God.
Page 86 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know...
Page 251 - The wonder, then, turn* on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence that can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment! This intelligence involves the very attributes of Divinity, while a God is denied: for unless this man is omnipresent, unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe, he cannot know but there may be in some place manifestations of a Deity by which even he would be overpowered.
Page 84 - To be, or not to be, that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them...
Page 250 - If you were so unacquainted with mankind, that this character might be announced to you as a rare or singular phenomenon, your conjectures, till you saw and heard the man, at the nature and the extent of the discipline through which he must have advanced, would be led toward something extraordinary. And you might think that the term of that discipline must have been very long ; since a quick train of impressions, a short series of mental gradations, within the little space of a few months and years,...
Page 250 - ... of God, who explodes his laws by denying his existence. If you were so unacquainted with mankind, that this character might be announced to you as a rare or singular phenomenon, your conjectures, till you saw and heard the man, at the nature and the extent of the discipline through which he must have advanced, would be led toward something extraordinary. And you might think that the term of that discipline...