Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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Page 46
... fact that not one was tempted by the reward of 50,000 reals ( £ 500 ) offered for the capture of Santa Cruz , dead or alive ; and 50,000 reals are a fortune to a Basque peasant . The most complete order and discipline are enforced in ...
... fact that not one was tempted by the reward of 50,000 reals ( £ 500 ) offered for the capture of Santa Cruz , dead or alive ; and 50,000 reals are a fortune to a Basque peasant . The most complete order and discipline are enforced in ...
Page 48
... fact , wherever Carlist bands were in arms , General Cordova ( Luis ) , then at the head of the army of the north , refused to allow it to have effect outside the limits of the Basque provinces and Navarre . A Christino General com ...
... fact , wherever Carlist bands were in arms , General Cordova ( Luis ) , then at the head of the army of the north , refused to allow it to have effect outside the limits of the Basque provinces and Navarre . A Christino General com ...
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... fact of the renunciation by his father Don Juan of his rights to the crown of Spain in favour of himself . The Carlist rising which took place last year terminated in the defeat of Orisquieta and the Con- vention of Amorovieta . How the ...
... fact of the renunciation by his father Don Juan of his rights to the crown of Spain in favour of himself . The Carlist rising which took place last year terminated in the defeat of Orisquieta and the Con- vention of Amorovieta . How the ...
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... fact that Captain Cook took part in the exploit , not long before he started on his voyage round the world . Considering the present con- dition of France , we have not much reason to fear a repetition of this event , but we have never ...
... fact that Captain Cook took part in the exploit , not long before he started on his voyage round the world . Considering the present con- dition of France , we have not much reason to fear a repetition of this event , but we have never ...
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... fact of being a good farming locality , entirely free from the rocks . and stones of the mainland , and with an altogether different soil . It is thickly populated - Concep- tion Bay itself , across which we are now looking , supports ...
... fact of being a good farming locality , entirely free from the rocks . and stones of the mainland , and with an altogether different soil . It is thickly populated - Concep- tion Bay itself , across which we are now looking , supports ...
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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.