Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 48William Blackwood, 1840 - England |
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... force left in Armenia , when he himself set out at the head of the elite on the remarkable expedition in which ... forces . Reanima- ted by the presence of their gallant prince , the Persians attacked and over- threw the Ottoman advanced ...
... force left in Armenia , when he himself set out at the head of the elite on the remarkable expedition in which ... forces . Reanima- ted by the presence of their gallant prince , the Persians attacked and over- threw the Ottoman advanced ...
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... force on the marshy plain of Keresztes . The following day was consumed in indecisive skirmishing ; but on the morning of the 26th , a movement of the Turks , to cross a small river intersecting the plain , brought on a general ...
... force on the marshy plain of Keresztes . The following day was consumed in indecisive skirmishing ; but on the morning of the 26th , a movement of the Turks , to cross a small river intersecting the plain , brought on a general ...
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... force off Sicily , sent a flag of truce into the harbour of Messina , requesting the viceroy to allow him at least an interview with his mother , whom he had never seen since he was first carried to Constan- tinople " and the viceroy ...
... force off Sicily , sent a flag of truce into the harbour of Messina , requesting the viceroy to allow him at least an interview with his mother , whom he had never seen since he was first carried to Constan- tinople " and the viceroy ...
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... force on which he could place more personal reliance , than on the tumultuary host formed by the nobles and their ... forces destined to act against the heretics of Persia . The Shah was engaged in pressing the siege of Kars , then , and ...
... force on which he could place more personal reliance , than on the tumultuary host formed by the nobles and their ... forces destined to act against the heretics of Persia . The Shah was engaged in pressing the siege of Kars , then , and ...
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... force from sharing the fate of the rest of the army . But the fierce tem- per of Cicala , inflamed to fury by his misfortunes , could little endure to be further chafed by the haughty bearing of the Koord , who fearlessly retorted the ...
... force from sharing the fate of the rest of the army . But the fierce tem- per of Cicala , inflamed to fury by his misfortunes , could little endure to be further chafed by the haughty bearing of the Koord , who fearlessly retorted the ...
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Abaza amongst Anapa Anatolia appear army Badajoz British called character Cicala Circassians Ciudad Rodrigo command Corn laws court dear death Dr Tatham Earl effect empire enemy England English Europe evil expression favour feel force French Gammon German glory hand head heart heaven honour interest janissaries labour Lady length look Lord Lord Widdrington Madame de Staël Mamlukes ment mind Miss Aubrey Miss Tag-rag moon morning Mourad nation native nature ness never night noble object once Ottoman party pasha passed Persians person political present principles question Quirk racter reign ruin Runnington Russia Russian seems sentence seraskier sion Snap Soliman soon spahis spirit style Sultan sure theatres thee thing thou thought timariots tion Titmouse Tobias troops Turkish Turks vizir Whig whole word write Yatton Zouch
Popular passages
Page 199 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying. Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Page 49 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 49 - But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight. Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
Page 378 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 432 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 169 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 47 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 383 - ... rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 383 - And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged.
Page 200 - It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.