Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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Page 11
... received letters from M. Lou- vier's professional agent , as re- minders of interest due , and as requests for its payment , the Che- valier assured him that these appli- cations were formalities of conven- tion - that Louvier , in fact ...
... received letters from M. Lou- vier's professional agent , as re- minders of interest due , and as requests for its payment , the Che- valier assured him that these appli- cations were formalities of conven- tion - that Louvier , in fact ...
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... received orders at the usual canonical age . He said his first mass in 1866 , and two years afterwards was appointed Curé of the parish of Hernialde . By those who knew him while a stu- dent , he is said to have been quiet and ...
... received orders at the usual canonical age . He said his first mass in 1866 , and two years afterwards was appointed Curé of the parish of Hernialde . By those who knew him while a stu- dent , he is said to have been quiet and ...
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... received a sum of money to betray him to his enemy , as well as the alcalde of a village after the combat of Aya . This deed pro- duced such sensation that Santa Cruz addressed the following let- ter to the Carlist paper that pub ...
... received a sum of money to betray him to his enemy , as well as the alcalde of a village after the combat of Aya . This deed pro- duced such sensation that Santa Cruz addressed the following let- ter to the Carlist paper that pub ...
Page 68
... received by the " skinners , " each of whom , armed with a gigantic knife like a small sword , stands behind a board or dresser which shelves away from him . Upon this he draws a pelt . These are generally about three feet long , from ...
... received by the " skinners , " each of whom , armed with a gigantic knife like a small sword , stands behind a board or dresser which shelves away from him . Upon this he draws a pelt . These are generally about three feet long , from ...
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... received from the boats , and cleaned preparatory to being laid out on the flakes . They some- times seem perched like gigantic nests over the waves , one advantage of proximity to which is , that all the refuse falls directly into them ...
... received from the boats , and cleaned preparatory to being laid out on the flakes . They some- times seem perched like gigantic nests over the waves , one advantage of proximity to which is , that all the refuse falls directly into them ...
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Page 604 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 261 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 604 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Page 273 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Page 604 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 347 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 75 - Even be it so ; yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet, And part far from them : sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes, He is a slave; the meanest we can meet!
Page 604 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Page 80 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable: I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 359 - The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.