Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 241857 |
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... labour ing for principles . They were disappointed , and soured , by delay and procrastination , not because their ... labours , except disappointment . Government by the people is a principle , and it may be secured by more ways than ...
... labour ing for principles . They were disappointed , and soured , by delay and procrastination , not because their ... labours , except disappointment . Government by the people is a principle , and it may be secured by more ways than ...
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... labour were a silent sufferer , the policy of our course might be wiser . People would speak against rousing questions that slept , or wrongs that were not felt to be wrong ; but now labour and its interests are perpetually before the ...
... labour were a silent sufferer , the policy of our course might be wiser . People would speak against rousing questions that slept , or wrongs that were not felt to be wrong ; but now labour and its interests are perpetually before the ...
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... labour , for the good of those who do not require to toil . The army , the navy , the civil service , indeed every service , is periodically submitted to discus- sion without all those good results that might and and should arise out of ...
... labour , for the good of those who do not require to toil . The army , the navy , the civil service , indeed every service , is periodically submitted to discus- sion without all those good results that might and and should arise out of ...
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... labour , making it a drudgery instead of an honest pleasure ; and we all require to guard against these inroads . London possesses a population probably double that of any other European city ; and we have no faith in Asiatic numbers ...
... labour , making it a drudgery instead of an honest pleasure ; and we all require to guard against these inroads . London possesses a population probably double that of any other European city ; and we have no faith in Asiatic numbers ...
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... labour is , however , carried to a ridicuously minute extent by some of these dealers . Stationery seems a favourite article , but the vendor of pens has no connexion with papers , and the man with memo- randum books transacts no ...
... labour is , however , carried to a ridicuously minute extent by some of these dealers . Stationery seems a favourite article , but the vendor of pens has no connexion with papers , and the man with memo- randum books transacts no ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.