The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1859 |
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... lady drinks freely , in the lower country wine , his physician . The afternoon was spent usually avoiding drunkenness in the at the inn , close to some meadow , where upper country spirits distilled from po- the youth of the village ...
... lady drinks freely , in the lower country wine , his physician . The afternoon was spent usually avoiding drunkenness in the at the inn , close to some meadow , where upper country spirits distilled from po- the youth of the village ...
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... ladies of high degree , who thought that their privileges were in- fringed upon when the King took a , concu- bine who did not belong to their order , and considered it a mortal insult to the noblesse that a Montespan and a Château ...
... ladies of high degree , who thought that their privileges were in- fringed upon when the King took a , concu- bine who did not belong to their order , and considered it a mortal insult to the noblesse that a Montespan and a Château ...
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... lady is covered nervous energy , lessens the development of vital heat . Let the nerves be stupefied by narcotics , paralyzed by injuries done to the spinal cord , severed by the knife , or , still more , destroyed by the decapita- tion ...
... lady is covered nervous energy , lessens the development of vital heat . Let the nerves be stupefied by narcotics , paralyzed by injuries done to the spinal cord , severed by the knife , or , still more , destroyed by the decapita- tion ...
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... lady to faint , how- frame rise above its standard hight , than ever determined her nerves . What pro- the sudorific glands , indignant at the tected these fire - proof men ? Simply , event , begin to give out their fluid sensi- their ...
... lady to faint , how- frame rise above its standard hight , than ever determined her nerves . What pro- the sudorific glands , indignant at the tected these fire - proof men ? Simply , event , begin to give out their fluid sensi- their ...
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... lady from the royal line of the Western and each family or tribe drew around its Islanders holds her scepter over the scene settlement the sacred " mark , " and fixed of strife , and illustrates the beautiful title the hallowed signs ...
... lady from the royal line of the Western and each family or tribe drew around its Islanders holds her scepter over the scene settlement the sacred " mark , " and fixed of strife , and illustrates the beautiful title the hallowed signs ...
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Page 484 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas — Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides : Fair these broad meads, &c.
Page 480 - WHY, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away ? " Where are your books ? — that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind ! Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. " You look round on your mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you ; As if you were her first-born birth, And none had lived before you...
Page 70 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 254 - To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
Page 388 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 23 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...
Page 149 - They may be naturally arranged into: 1. Those activities which directly minister to self-preservation; 2. Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of...
Page 510 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 161 - The only history that is of practical value, is what may be called Descriptive Sociology. And the highest office which the historian can discharge, is that of so narrating the lives of nations, as to furnish materials for a Comparative Sociology ; and for the subsequent determination of the ultimate laws to which social phenomena conform.
Page 394 - ... swayed as by a wind. At the same moment the watch beside the revolver softly slid from the table, — softly, softly, — no visible hand ; it was gone. I sprang up, seizing the revolver with the one hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor ; no sign of the watch. Three slow, loud, distinct knocks were now heard at the bed-head ; my servant called out, " Is that you, sir ? "