Passages from the Life of Charles KnightG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874 - 480 páginas |
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... close . I. From 1812 to the end of 1822 , my chief occu- pation was that of a journalist at Windsor . But my duties were not wholly limited to that narrow range , although in tracing my course as the editor of a local paper I may regard ...
... close . I. From 1812 to the end of 1822 , my chief occu- pation was that of a journalist at Windsor . But my duties were not wholly limited to that narrow range , although in tracing my course as the editor of a local paper I may regard ...
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... close attention to the principles and practical working of measures which have so materially improved the Condition of the People . III . My third epoch is one of comparative repose . I edited and published the extensive series of the ...
... close attention to the principles and practical working of measures which have so materially improved the Condition of the People . III . My third epoch is one of comparative repose . I edited and published the extensive series of the ...
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... of a new one . The subject of this lay close to his hand , and the research it involved was a congenial and pleasant labour . Various references in the Passages ' had 6 vividly recalled the images of one and another of the 6 INTRODUCTORY .
... of a new one . The subject of this lay close to his hand , and the research it involved was a congenial and pleasant labour . Various references in the Passages ' had 6 vividly recalled the images of one and another of the 6 INTRODUCTORY .
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... close by preparing during the last autumn days of 1868 , the volume of the ' Com- panion to the Almanac ' for 1869. This was the forty - second of the annual series , each volume of which had been produced under his direct super- vision ...
... close by preparing during the last autumn days of 1868 , the volume of the ' Com- panion to the Almanac ' for 1869. This was the forty - second of the annual series , each volume of which had been produced under his direct super- vision ...
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... close to the great entrance to the lower ward of Windsor Castle , called , after its builder , Henry the Eighth's gateway . I crept down in the dawning of that first day of the year to a sit- ting room which commanded a view of the ...
... close to the great entrance to the lower ward of Windsor Castle , called , after its builder , Henry the Eighth's gateway . I crept down in the dawning of that first day of the year to a sit- ting room which commanded a view of the ...
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Página 101 - ... without actual malice, and without gross negligence, and that before the commencement of the action, or at the earliest opportunity afterwards, he inserted in such newspaper or other periodical publication...
Página 115 - Our journal of this day presents to the public the practical result of the greatest improvement connected with printing, since the discovery of the art itself. The reader of this paragraph now holds in his hand one of the many thousand impressions of The Times Newspaper, which were taken off last night by a mechanical apparatus. A system of machinery, almost organic, has been devised and arranged, which, while it relieves the human frame of its most laborious...
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Página 100 - Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
Página 13 - For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 102 - Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany .old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Página 283 - THE OBJECT of the Society is strictly limited to what its title imports, namely, the imparting useful information to all classes of the community, particularly to such as are unable to avail themselves of experienced teachers, or may prefer learning by themselves.