Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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... interest , and from what annual proceeds is the interest paid ? " Herewith Alain gave details al- ready furnished to the reader . Du- plessis listened , and noted down the replies . " I see it all , " he said , when Alain had finished ...
... interest , and from what annual proceeds is the interest paid ? " Herewith Alain gave details al- ready furnished to the reader . Du- plessis listened , and noted down the replies . " I see it all , " he said , when Alain had finished ...
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... interest in what their wives are learning ; and without pre- tending that marriage is , with us , an aid to study , it is so certainly when we compare it to what occurs in France . Music , on the contrary , is more general in French ...
... interest in what their wives are learning ; and without pre- tending that marriage is , with us , an aid to study , it is so certainly when we compare it to what occurs in France . Music , on the contrary , is more general in French ...
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... interests than if they were hampered by the central Canadian Government , who would thus share in its resources without ... interest with the Dominion , they would derive im- mense advantages from the inter- course which must then of ...
... interests than if they were hampered by the central Canadian Government , who would thus share in its resources without ... interest with the Dominion , they would derive im- mense advantages from the inter- course which must then of ...
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... interest in the result . Then the risks and chances attending the pursuits are so great that the pleadings of mercy are easily stifled . It is in many cases a battle not merely with the seals , but with the elements . A gale of wind may ...
... interest in the result . Then the risks and chances attending the pursuits are so great that the pleadings of mercy are easily stifled . It is in many cases a battle not merely with the seals , but with the elements . A gale of wind may ...
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... interest- ing articles of the Rev. Mr Harvey upon all matters connected with Newfoundland will be found of great value by the intending emigrant or mining speculator . This year Mr Murray intends to make a thorough examination of the ...
... interest- ing articles of the Rev. Mr Harvey upon all matters connected with Newfoundland will be found of great value by the intending emigrant or mining speculator . This year Mr Murray intends to make a thorough examination of the ...
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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.