Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 178 |
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The last of my pupils ( I am a teacher of English ) had gone home ; the interminable series of questions and answers according to the book of Ollendorff , or other " methods " equally interesting , had come to an end at last , and I was ...
The last of my pupils ( I am a teacher of English ) had gone home ; the interminable series of questions and answers according to the book of Ollendorff , or other " methods " equally interesting , had come to an end at last , and I was ...
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The flower of English chivalry rode with Edward I. to the siege of Caerlaverock in the year 1300 . The anonymous chronicler of that famous expedition chose to write in Norman - French , and is therefore not to be quoted in this place ...
The flower of English chivalry rode with Edward I. to the siege of Caerlaverock in the year 1300 . The anonymous chronicler of that famous expedition chose to write in Norman - French , and is therefore not to be quoted in this place ...
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The young Evander found more romance in the four horses than in the hurrying little railway , which gave him no time to see the country or the strange English people . " Romance is dead , the cave- man said , " and so forth , as the ...
The young Evander found more romance in the four horses than in the hurrying little railway , which gave him no time to see the country or the strange English people . " Romance is dead , the cave- man said , " and so forth , as the ...
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dhobis and sweepers , who the two " dandies , " for the not long ago at Hampton Court flung chupatties to an admiring English crowd , passed as Indian princes , so did the worthy MacTavish sail under false colours .
dhobis and sweepers , who the two " dandies , " for the not long ago at Hampton Court flung chupatties to an admiring English crowd , passed as Indian princes , so did the worthy MacTavish sail under false colours .
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and she thrust into her mother's face a portrait of the great man cut from an English illustrated paper . The announcement of the presence of a puff - adder in the bed would not have caused more consternation . The woman stared from the ...
and she thrust into her mother's face a portrait of the great man cut from an English illustrated paper . The announcement of the presence of a puff - adder in the bed would not have caused more consternation . The woman stared from the ...
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Էջ 399 - Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear, It is not night if thou be near ; Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.
Էջ 410 - Come near and bless us when we wake, Ere through the world our way we take ; Till in the ocean of Thy love We lose ourselves in Heaven above.
Էջ 365 - Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is in effect but an early custom.
Էջ 41 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood...
Էջ 511 - And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins...
Էջ 483 - His Majesty allowed Earl Temple to say that whoever voted for the India Bill was not only not his friend, but would be considered by him as an enemy ; and if these words were not strong enough, Earl Temple might use whatever words he might deem stronger and more to the purpose.
Էջ 399 - And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made...
Էջ 610 - ... to behold this nation, instead of despairing at its alarming condition, looking boldly its situation in the face, and establishing upon a spirited and permanent plan the means of relieving itself from all its...
Էջ 94 - But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An there's the foe!
Էջ 148 - And be it enacted, that the Superintendence, Direction, and Control of the whole Civil and Military Government of all the said Territories and Revenues in India shall be and is "hereby vested in a GovernorGeneral and Counsellors, to be styled " The GovernorGeneral of India in Council.