The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The history of PendennisSmith Elder & Company, 1905 |
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... remember once being with him and meeting a middle - aged man crossing a street , and his saying , " That man was at school with me ; I used to think him one of the greatest men in the whole world ; " and we watched the great man as he ...
... remember once being with him and meeting a middle - aged man crossing a street , and his saying , " That man was at school with me ; I used to think him one of the greatest men in the whole world ; " and we watched the great man as he ...
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... remember hearing my grandfather say that Euclid was like child's play to my father , who went through the first books with absolute ease and facility . Algebra , on the contrary , he always dis- liked , and there were other subjects he ...
... remember hearing my grandfather say that Euclid was like child's play to my father , who went through the first books with absolute ease and facility . Algebra , on the contrary , he always dis- liked , and there were other subjects he ...
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... remember with pleasure a long time hence . Chaudfontaine looked very sad and bankrupt as we passed it on Sunday . They have got a Sunday service here in an extinct gambling - house , and a clerical professor to perform , whom you have ...
... remember with pleasure a long time hence . Chaudfontaine looked very sad and bankrupt as we passed it on Sunday . They have got a Sunday service here in an extinct gambling - house , and a clerical professor to perform , whom you have ...
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... remember , when we were driving through the town , the bells were tolling , and the people , dressed in black , were streaming into the churches . It was a day of prayer and solemn humiliation , which had been appointed for the cholera ...
... remember , when we were driving through the town , the bells were tolling , and the people , dressed in black , were streaming into the churches . It was a day of prayer and solemn humiliation , which had been appointed for the cholera ...
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... remembering well when I was myself juvenis , and all too glad of my elders ' charitie . I salute your Lady- ship ... remember the morning Helen died . My father was in his study in Young Street , sitting at the table at which he ...
... remembering well when I was myself juvenis , and all too glad of my elders ' charitie . I salute your Lady- ship ... remember the morning Helen died . My father was in his study in Young Street , sitting at the table at which he ...
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acquaintance admiration ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet Baymouth beautiful began Bingley Blanche blushed Bows Bungay called Captain Costigan carriage Chatteris Clavering's cried daughter dear delighted dine dinner Doctor Portman door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny father Foker girl give Glanders Grosvenor Place hand happy heard heart Helen honest honour Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Larkbeare laughed letters live London looked Lord Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Miss Amory Miss Costigan Miss Fotheringay Morgan morning mother never night Oxbridge Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's perhaps play Pontypool poor pretty Pynsent remember round Saint Boniface sate seen Shandon Sir Francis Clavering smile Smirke sure talk tell thought told took uncle voice Wagg walked Warrington widow woman wonder word young fellow young gentleman young lady
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Seite 302 - There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world, her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Yonder journal has an agent at this minute giving bribes at Madrid, and another inspecting the price of potatoes in Covent Garden.
Seite 62 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite 615 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest...
Seite 399 - If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Seite 616 - ... position of a leader, and passes over, truth-impelled, to the enemy, in whose ranks he is ready to serve henceforth as a nameless private soldier : — I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to Heaven, his revolt and recantation.
Seite 1 - At a quarter past ten the Major invariably made his appearance in the best blacked boots in all London, with a checked morning cravat that never was rumpled until dinner-time, a buff waistcoat which bore the crown of his sovereign on the buttons, and linen so spotless that Mr.
Seite xvi - your idleness is incorrigible and your stupidity beyond example. You are a disgrace to your school, and to your family, and I have no doubt will prove so in after-life to your country. If that vice, sir, which is described to us as the root of all evil, be really what moralists have represented...
Seite xlvii - Ladies and gentlemen, you were to have been treated, and the writer's and the publishers' pocket benefited, by the recital of the most active horrors. What more exciting than a ruffian (with many admirable virtues) in St. Giles's visited constantly by a young lady from Belgravia ? What more stirring than the contrasts of society ? the mixture of slang and fashionable language...