The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of the masses |
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... look for a " Mechanic's Organ . " One , in a high- sounding prospectus , professes to write for the people - another , without much profession , panders to the people - but it remains for Melbourne to supply an " Organ " on whose keys ...
... look for a " Mechanic's Organ . " One , in a high- sounding prospectus , professes to write for the people - another , without much profession , panders to the people - but it remains for Melbourne to supply an " Organ " on whose keys ...
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... look upon labour without rever- ence . He who professes to despise it , who seeks to raise himself above it , who thinks that the farther he places it from him the more dignified he becomes , is in reality the most helpless and depen ...
... look upon labour without rever- ence . He who professes to despise it , who seeks to raise himself above it , who thinks that the farther he places it from him the more dignified he becomes , is in reality the most helpless and depen ...
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... look about us . We are where monopolies put on their nigh - caps and prepare for a long snooze . We are where opinions will be sifted . We are where agitations get beyond the tongue's end . We are where nominal reforms will not satisfy ...
... look about us . We are where monopolies put on their nigh - caps and prepare for a long snooze . We are where opinions will be sifted . We are where agitations get beyond the tongue's end . We are where nominal reforms will not satisfy ...
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... look'd down with wonder and delight On this strange spectacle of calm repose , And gave the glory , as they viewed the sight , TO HIM , who made him triumph o'er his foes . The place of death is gained . And still a calmness Soothing as ...
... look'd down with wonder and delight On this strange spectacle of calm repose , And gave the glory , as they viewed the sight , TO HIM , who made him triumph o'er his foes . The place of death is gained . And still a calmness Soothing as ...
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... at him and then at the child at her knee , as if to say can there be pleasures more attractive in ex- istence ? " He understood that look , and 66 than usual ; or else his thoughts , want- ing 30 THE MECHANIC'S ORGAN ,
... at him and then at the child at her knee , as if to say can there be pleasures more attractive in ex- istence ? " He understood that look , and 66 than usual ; or else his thoughts , want- ing 30 THE MECHANIC'S ORGAN ,
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Page 50 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 119 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 52 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew^th.
Page 52 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 1 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 45 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 119 - ... such society shall be supported wholly or in part by annual voluntary contributions, and shall not, and by its laws may not, make any dividend, gift, division, or bonus in money unto or between any of its members, and provided also that such society shall obtain the certificate of the barristerat-law or lord advocate, as herein-after mentioned.
Page 49 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 1 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Page 51 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.