Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 136William Blackwood, 1884 |
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... mind weighing the chances of victory and defeat with the intensity and serenity of a mathematician pon- dering over the solution of some grave problem . No one , it is said , has ever seen Count Moltke ex- cited , not even at Sedan ...
... mind weighing the chances of victory and defeat with the intensity and serenity of a mathematician pon- dering over the solution of some grave problem . No one , it is said , has ever seen Count Moltke ex- cited , not even at Sedan ...
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... mind not only wildly improbable , but grossly absurd . He could not do it if he would he would not if he could . On both grounds she felt herself more than safe . It would be nothing short of shameful in her to suspect her acknowledged ...
... mind not only wildly improbable , but grossly absurd . He could not do it if he would he would not if he could . On both grounds she felt herself more than safe . It would be nothing short of shameful in her to suspect her acknowledged ...
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... mind , ' tis not the best thing for a girl of Mary's age to be allowed to follow her own whims in everything ; but that's how ' twill be with a hus- band like Jem Challoner . she may carry on as she pleases , and never a word , nor so ...
... mind , ' tis not the best thing for a girl of Mary's age to be allowed to follow her own whims in everything ; but that's how ' twill be with a hus- band like Jem Challoner . she may carry on as she pleases , and never a word , nor so ...
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... mind is saturated with the evidence against him , and the jury enter the box with a hearsay knowledge of alle- gations which are not , and it may be cannot be , proved in Court , but which yet unconsciously may influ- ence their minds ...
... mind is saturated with the evidence against him , and the jury enter the box with a hearsay knowledge of alle- gations which are not , and it may be cannot be , proved in Court , but which yet unconsciously may influ- ence their minds ...
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... mind may neutralise the intelligent and honest harmony of the remaining eleven jurors . But it may be said this evil is not of very frequent oc- currence . Still it does occur pain- fully often : and the cases in which it does occur are ...
... mind may neutralise the intelligent and honest harmony of the remaining eleven jurors . But it may be said this evil is not of very frequent oc- currence . Still it does occur pain- fully often : and the cases in which it does occur are ...
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Էջ 406 - Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, •' -^ ' Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ?
Էջ 416 - Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Էջ 435 - And so through those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. Indeed I love thee ; come Yield thyself up : my hopes and thine are one : Accomplish thou my manhood and thyself, Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.
Էջ 423 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Էջ 565 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the government?
Էջ 649 - It was answered, that all great and honourable actions are accompanied with great difficulties and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.
Էջ 745 - ... all the day long. 13 As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not : and as one that is dumb, who doth not open his mouth. 14 I became even as a man that heareth not : and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Էջ 403 - Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content : 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
Էջ 764 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence : for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of GOD, though worlds Judged thee perverse.
Էջ 419 - Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight , Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year.