Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 130W. Blackwood & Sons, 1881 |
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... Government House , the roomy bay - window looking across the lawn to a group of semi - tropical trees ; a water - colour picture of a skirmish in Ashantee over the fire- place ; a massive oak desk strewn with papers and well - bound ...
... Government House , the roomy bay - window looking across the lawn to a group of semi - tropical trees ; a water - colour picture of a skirmish in Ashantee over the fire- place ; a massive oak desk strewn with papers and well - bound ...
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... Government of the South African Republic have taken up their residence at Heidelberg . " That a diplomatic commissioner has been sent by them with de- spatches to his Excellency Sir W. Owen Lanyon . " That until the arrival of his Ex ...
... Government of the South African Republic have taken up their residence at Heidelberg . " That a diplomatic commissioner has been sent by them with de- spatches to his Excellency Sir W. Owen Lanyon . " That until the arrival of his Ex ...
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... government of four or five officers . This exercise is taken by rapid walking round and round on circular pavements . The number trained at exercise on each of these stone circles corres- ponds with a circle of pegs . If any tendency ...
... government of four or five officers . This exercise is taken by rapid walking round and round on circular pavements . The number trained at exercise on each of these stone circles corres- ponds with a circle of pegs . If any tendency ...
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... Government , and the remain- der to the peasants and native pro- prietors . Among these latter some are very rich ; and one of my fellow- passengers on this occasion had an estate of about a thousand acres , on which he had built a ...
... Government , and the remain- der to the peasants and native pro- prietors . Among these latter some are very rich ; and one of my fellow- passengers on this occasion had an estate of about a thousand acres , on which he had built a ...
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... Government land in this province alone , the revenues of which are hypothecated to for- eign creditors . About half a mile from the fac- tory , towards the lake , is a grove of date - trees overshadowing a house of unusual pretensions ...
... Government land in this province alone , the revenues of which are hypothecated to for- eign creditors . About half a mile from the fac- tory , towards the lake , is a grove of date - trees overshadowing a house of unusual pretensions ...
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Էջ 571 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Էջ 259 - Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity: these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what, weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Էջ 361 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Էջ 215 - Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Էջ 149 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Էջ 361 - They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks ; neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk every one in his path : and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Էջ 34 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Էջ 396 - NEAVES. A Glance at some of the Principles of Comparative Philology. As illustrated in the Latin and Anglican Forms of Speech. By the Hon. Lord NEAVES. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d. Songs and Verses, Social and Scientific. By an Old Contributor to 'Maga.
Էջ 234 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of -uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Էջ 602 - ... Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.