Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 87W. Blackwood, 1860 |
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... tain : towards this point all the shadows ought to converge . It will be found , however , that not one of them even approaches that direction , but all fall wider of the mark than the balls of an awkward squad on their first day's ...
... tain : towards this point all the shadows ought to converge . It will be found , however , that not one of them even approaches that direction , but all fall wider of the mark than the balls of an awkward squad on their first day's ...
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... tain how poor they are . If he could obtain access to the returns of the professional incomes of metropolitan practitioners , either in medicine or the law , the poverty of the public servants would be still more appar- ent . We do not ...
... tain how poor they are . If he could obtain access to the returns of the professional incomes of metropolitan practitioners , either in medicine or the law , the poverty of the public servants would be still more appar- ent . We do not ...
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... tain ascertained special qualifications to account for the benefit of the State . An Act of Parliament , passed last session , especially provides for such cases , so far as the superannuation rules are concerned . A man entering the ...
... tain ascertained special qualifications to account for the benefit of the State . An Act of Parliament , passed last session , especially provides for such cases , so far as the superannuation rules are concerned . A man entering the ...
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... tain curious fossil specimens of negro humanity , whose working days have been past for thirty years , and who have all that time been pensioned and cared for by their master and his wife , upon whose heads they have just strength and ...
... tain curious fossil specimens of negro humanity , whose working days have been past for thirty years , and who have all that time been pensioned and cared for by their master and his wife , upon whose heads they have just strength and ...
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... tain M'Clintock at once put forth his parties to carry forward the de- pôts of provision , and to strive to pick up some clue by which to ascer- tain whether Franklin's ships had been beset or wrecked north or south of his present ...
... tain M'Clintock at once put forth his parties to carry forward the de- pôts of provision , and to strive to pick up some clue by which to ascer- tain whether Franklin's ships had been beset or wrecked north or south of his present ...
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Page 326 - With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this: — "Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last; You spurned me such a day ; another time You called me dog; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys ?
Page 447 - We will return no more;" And all at once they sang, "Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
Page 595 - ... a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad ; thirsty for all knowledge ; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it.
Page 108 - On the banks of the Teche, are the towns of St. Maur and St. Martin. There the long-wandering bride shall be given again to her bridegroom, There the long-absent pastor regain his flock and his sheepfold. Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit-trees...
Page 451 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me : Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up ; Though bladed corn be lodg'd and trees blown down ; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 326 - Shylock, we would have moneys :" — you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say, " Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 404 - I also leave to the beneficence of my country my adopted daughter, Horatia Nelson Thompson; and I desire she will use in future the name of Nelson only. 'These are the only favours I ask of my king and country, at this moment when I am going to fight their battle. May God bless my king and country, and all those I hold dear! My relations it is needless to mention: they will, of course, be amply provided for.
Page 136 - visits the sins of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generations of them that hate him...
Page 597 - There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labour of choice, and where the outer world seemed only an extension of our own personality : we accepted and loved it as we accepted our own sense of existence and our own limbs.
Page 326 - About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help. Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...