Saint Pauls [afterw.] The Saint Pauls magazine, ed. by A. Trollope, 9 tomas

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Anthony Trollope
1871

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182 psl. - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
300 psl. - This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards...
300 psl. - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from St James's Coffee-house; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
33 psl. - I now put on the powers of 460 and 932, and found the diameter of the comet increased in proportion to the power, as it ought to be, on a supposition of its not being a fixed star, while the diameters of the stars to which I compared it were not increased in the same ratio. Moreover, the comet being magnified much beyond what its light would admit of, appeared hazy and ill-defined with these great powers, while the stars preserved that lustre and distinctness which from many thousand observations...
84 psl. - Said Mary, as we sate In dusk, ere stars were lit, or candles brought ; And I, who thought This Aziola was some tedious woman, Asked, " Who is Aziola ? " How elate I felt to know that it was nothing human, No mockery of myself to fear or hate : And Mary saw my soul, And laughed, and said, " Disquiet yourself not ; 'Tis nothing but a little downy owl.
289 psl. - It had a greater extension in four directions, at the extremities of two diameters at right angles to each other, so as to give it the shape, roughly speaking, of a square with rounded corners. It was broken in parts, and notably by one decided V-shaped gap. This was observed, not only by one party, but at three stations, San Antonio, Xerez, and La Maria Louisa, which form a triangle, each of whose sides is five or six miles in length.
194 psl. - has proposed to herself the task of storing up the light which streams earthward from the sun ; of converting the most volatile of all powers into a rigid form, and thus preserving it for her purposes. To this end she has overspread the earth with organisms which, living, take into them the solar light, and by the consumption of its energy incessantly generate chemical forces. These organisms are plants. The vegetable world constitutes the reservoir in which the fugitive solar rays are fixed, suitably...
195 psl. - I confess has often happened undesigned) by speaking plainly; as Earl Stanhope used to say, during his ministry, he always imposed on the foreign ministers by telling them the naked truth, — which as they thought impossible to come from the mouth of a statesman, they never failed to write information to their respective courts directly contrary to the assurances he gave them.
33 psl. - I knew that the diameters of the fixed stars are not proportionally magnified with higher powers as the planets are; therefore I now put on the powers of 460 and 932, and found the diameter of the comet increased in proportion to the power, as it ought to be...
183 psl. - When our coal mines are exhausted, the prosperity and glory of this flourishing and fortunate island are at an end. Our cities and great towns must then become ruinous heaps for want of fuel, and our mines and manufactories must fail from the same cause, and then, consequently, our commerce must vanish. In short, the commerce, wealth, importance, glory, and happiness of Great Britain, will decay and gradually dwindle away to nothing, in proportion as our coal and other mines fail.

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