Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64William Blackwood, 1848 |
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... means of an aristocracy . By an aristocracy we mean the deposition of political power in the hands of men of leisure and education , as opposed to the tendency of the Reform Bill , to transfer the go- verning functions to the ...
... means of an aristocracy . By an aristocracy we mean the deposition of political power in the hands of men of leisure and education , as opposed to the tendency of the Reform Bill , to transfer the go- verning functions to the ...
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... means of this law , the main stock of the family is left in its full strength as a nucleus round which the younger branches are united , and from which their members derive alike a great portion of their status in society , and ...
... means of this law , the main stock of the family is left in its full strength as a nucleus round which the younger branches are united , and from which their members derive alike a great portion of their status in society , and ...
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... means of securing a wretched subsistence ; and this security , as we know , has more than once proved but a fancied one , as in the disastrous failure of the potato crop . While we are on this subject , we may draw the reader's ...
... means of securing a wretched subsistence ; and this security , as we know , has more than once proved but a fancied one , as in the disastrous failure of the potato crop . While we are on this subject , we may draw the reader's ...
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... means , let every man work who is fit to work . is not necessary , nor is it desirable , that every man should work for gain . On the contrary , we hold that a class endowed with leisure is indispensable , not only for the grace and ...
... means , let every man work who is fit to work . is not necessary , nor is it desirable , that every man should work for gain . On the contrary , we hold that a class endowed with leisure is indispensable , not only for the grace and ...
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... means , he plunged into all the vicious excite- ments of drinking , gambling , and fight- ing , which form the every - day amuse- ments of the rising generation of St Louis . Perhaps in no other part of the United States , where indeed ...
... means , he plunged into all the vicious excite- ments of drinking , gambling , and fight- ing , which form the every - day amuse- ments of the rising generation of St Louis . Perhaps in no other part of the United States , where indeed ...
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Page 491 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 504 - 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 490 - The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 502 - And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay.
Page 490 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 494 - 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...
Page 490 - 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 186 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 408 - 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 406 - I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary state of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition.