November 1, 2009
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‘Qui refute, muse !’ says a French adage. I do not remember ever refusing anything, except the Consulship of Sierra-Leone, and a proffered journey in my friend Archdeacon P.’s carriage, which was going down to Yorkshire at the tail of … Weiterlesen
Dezember 30, 2008
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Si quis nunc quœrat, quo res hœc pertinet? ¡lluc: Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt. Malthinus tunicis demissis ambulat — —-Uter est insanior horum? Hor. What in the name of Phaeton is this vehicle rolling quickly along St. James’s … Weiterlesen
Dezember 26, 2008
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AN EXAMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR A DEGREE. We understand from very excellent authority, that an University is about to be instituted in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, where the old-fashioned qualifications of classical and scientific learning are to be … Weiterlesen
Dezember 22, 2008
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It is amusing to walk down Regent street in the height of the London season, and see the changes that each year produces in the costume of the promenaders; to speculate on the impression the fashions of the day would … Weiterlesen
Mai 22, 2008
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Theophrastus confined himself to more certain grounds of observation, taken from facts which came within his own experience; and it is curious to remark, how little the twenty-one centuries, which have elapsed since he wrote, have added to our knowledge … Weiterlesen
April 19, 2008
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I CANNOT better exemplify the truth of the above lines, or more pointedly prove that what is a pillow of thorns to one is a bed of roses to another, than by copying literally a letter of a young relation, … Weiterlesen