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Opening Suez Canal
Mr Russell of the Scotsman Mr Simpson of the Illustrated London News http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/1869.htm… more →
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Poets Laureate
cburrell wrote 1 week ago: It is tenable that there is a sort of implied obligation in a people to sustain, in no illiberal spi … more →
Rhapsody on a Pig
cburrell wrote 1 month ago: A dream of my pure and aspiring boyhood has been realised in the following paragraph, which I quote … more →
"Instructed out of his senses"
cburrell wrote 2 months ago: Mr. Charles Marson, that very interesting person [*], once declared that if you wanted to get old En … more →
Photographic Views of Japan
Helen wrote 2 months ago: Almost 150 years ago, on 12 September 1863, a portrait of three Japanese officials in the Illustrate … more →
"Huge hieroglyphics"
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cburrell wrote 5 months ago: One often wonders what the world of the future will really think of our present epoch. It is all ve … more →
"His extra limbs"
cburrell wrote 5 months ago: For there is nothing that is really cut off from man or really independent of him in the whole human … more →
"How splendid they all are!"
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cburrell wrote 6 months ago: The whole of life becomes so very jolly and livable when once we have believed in original sin. If w … more →
"Explanations from the disputed"
cburrell wrote 7 months ago: I read the other day in some philosophical magazine or other that some Professor whose name I forget … more →
The hangman and the soldier
cburrell wrote 8 months ago: We have so many questions in the modern world which are really difficult to answer; I wish the moder … more →
Birthdays and Mr. Shaw
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cburrell wrote 10 months ago: Years ago, when Mr. Bernard Shaw wrote on drama in the Saturday Review, he was only prevented from s … more →
"An understanding heart"
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cburrell wrote 11 months ago: An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to shu … more →
"The immortal power of astonishment and laughter"
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cburrell wrote 11 months ago: The Christmas celebrations will certainly remain, and will certainly survive any attempt by modern a … more →
"A state of freedom"
cburrell wrote 1 year ago: A state of freedom ought to mean a state in which no man can silence another. As it is, it means a s … more →
"The poetry of wrecks and islands"
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cburrell wrote 1 year ago: Let us try to get back to that desert island, and the moral to be drawn from all the happy Australia … more →
"A fixed form"
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cburrell wrote 1 year ago: The advantage of a fixed form is not at all understood by people in our times. The advantage of a fi … more →
"Incompatibility of temper"
cburrell wrote 1 year ago: I have always heard from my youth that in America it is possible to get a divorce for incompatibilit … more →
"It made these things beautiful"
cburrell wrote 1 year ago: . . . no religion was quite so blasphemous as to pretend that it was scientifically investigating it … more →
"Kneeling or uncovering of the head"
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cburrell wrote 1 year ago: Whenever men really believe that they can get to the spiritual they always employ the material. When … more →
"You can toast muffins at it"
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cburrell wrote 1 year ago: Go to the man who likes gas-stoves (if such a man there be) and ask him what he thinks a fire is for … more →
