Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64William Blackwood, 1848 |
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... look after the police , and take care that no one robs their till ; that is their idea of government . They want a man ( some of them being willing to allow him a small salary , though others think that it does not pay ) to preach to ...
... look after the police , and take care that no one robs their till ; that is their idea of government . They want a man ( some of them being willing to allow him a small salary , though others think that it does not pay ) to preach to ...
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... look at the bright sun , the trapper turned gently on his side and breathed his last sigh . With no other tools than their scalp - knives , the hunters dug a grave on the banks of the creek ; and whilst some were engaged in this work ...
... look at the bright sun , the trapper turned gently on his side and breathed his last sigh . With no other tools than their scalp - knives , the hunters dug a grave on the banks of the creek ; and whilst some were engaged in this work ...
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... look for solemn monologues from Pio Nono and Lamartine ; and , by - and - by , ex- pect a scene between the Soldan and the Czar . I do not look without feel- ings of awe , for I am sure it is the shadow of God's own hand that is now ...
... look for solemn monologues from Pio Nono and Lamartine ; and , by - and - by , ex- pect a scene between the Soldan and the Czar . I do not look without feel- ings of awe , for I am sure it is the shadow of God's own hand that is now ...
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... look back on that measure as you now look back on the great mistake of 1829 . It will haunt you like a nightmare , and you will regard it with less of anger than of shame and remorse ; with the deep conviction that , if the friends of ...
... look back on that measure as you now look back on the great mistake of 1829 . It will haunt you like a nightmare , and you will regard it with less of anger than of shame and remorse ; with the deep conviction that , if the friends of ...
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... look yet for some John of Gaunt in the House of Lords . Imagine him , my Basil : - " This sceptred isle , This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England , Renowned for her deeds as far from home ( For Christian service and ...
... look yet for some John of Gaunt in the House of Lords . Imagine him , my Basil : - " This sceptred isle , This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England , Renowned for her deeds as far from home ( For Christian service and ...
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Page 514 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 502 - With other ministrations thou, O Nature ! Healest thy wandering and distempered child : Thou pourest on him thy soft influences, Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets ; Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters ! Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and a dissonant thing Amid this general dance and minstrelsy ; But, bursting into tears, wins back his way, His angry spirit healed and harmonized By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
Page 500 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 500 - Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot.
Page 414 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Page 422 - Capital is kept in existence from age to age not by preservation, but by perpetual reproduction: every part of it is used and destroyed, generally very soon after it is produced, but those who consume it are employed meanwhile in producing more.
Page 500 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain. He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.
Page 414 - ... every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of improved agriculture.
Page 114 - They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. National animosity at that particular time aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom...
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