Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 108William Blackwood, 1870 - England |
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... asked , How are we to remedy this evil ? You can't go back to a native army except as a mere auxiliary to the European army . What would you gain by dividing your European force once more into a Queen's army for gen- eral service and a ...
... asked , How are we to remedy this evil ? You can't go back to a native army except as a mere auxiliary to the European army . What would you gain by dividing your European force once more into a Queen's army for gen- eral service and a ...
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... asked Félix , rather sternly . 66 Barton , struck by something in his tone , glanced at him , and then whistled . " Oh , never mind , " he said . " I say , Prosper , what are you going to do ? And you too , Créville ? " " I must go home ...
... asked Félix , rather sternly . 66 Barton , struck by something in his tone , glanced at him , and then whistled . " Oh , never mind , " he said . " I say , Prosper , what are you going to do ? And you too , Créville ? " " I must go home ...
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... asked , when it could not by any possibility lead to anything ? Well , men are in such cases - that is to say , where gold and women are concerned - guided mainly by impulse ; and practical wisdom , such as Warden's , is apt to think ...
... asked , when it could not by any possibility lead to anything ? Well , men are in such cases - that is to say , where gold and women are concerned - guided mainly by impulse ; and practical wisdom , such as Warden's , is apt to think ...
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... asked him- self , was there why he should be willing to cleave to Marie in full sight of the rich prize that was passing within reach of his hands ? She was not beautiful ; she was stupid - so he thought , for the na- ture of her ...
... asked him- self , was there why he should be willing to cleave to Marie in full sight of the rich prize that was passing within reach of his hands ? She was not beautiful ; she was stupid - so he thought , for the na- ture of her ...
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... asked . " No , I never met him . ” " Monsieur Prosper speaks very highly of him indeed , and evidently thinks him épris . I cannot bear to think of that poor girl going through all she does all alone ; and I should be so glad if she ...
... asked . " No , I never met him . ” " Monsieur Prosper speaks very highly of him indeed , and evidently thinks him épris . I cannot bear to think of that poor girl going through all she does all alone ; and I should be so glad if she ...
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Page 50 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 481 - ... of this House, or any committee thereof, as well during the recess, as the sitting of Parliament ; and that this House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offenders.
Page 177 - The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of water stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 291 - ... fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Page 530 - ... dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semisomnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.
Page 489 - Letter to his Constituents, denying the power of the House of Commons to imprison the people of England,' and he accompanied the letter with an argument in support of his position.
Page 290 - O heaven ! that one might read the book of fate ; And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent (Weary of solid firmness,) melt itself Into the sea...
Page 314 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 453 - Earth crouches, the elements are potter's clay, Space like a heaven filled up with northern lights, Here, nowhere, there, and everywhere at once.
Page 454 - I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow-angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.