Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 130 |
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... avowedly disaffected, that being the quantity he was allowed to purchase each
year, the Landdrost giving him the “permit” within a few days of the proclamation
of the Republic—so well were matters managed by the Government at Pretoria.
... avowedly disaffected, that being the quantity he was allowed to purchase each
year, the Landdrost giving him the “permit” within a few days of the proclamation
of the Republic—so well were matters managed by the Government at Pretoria.
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Noses were allowed to remain unattended to. When halfway, the time came to
extend ; and, on raising my hand, the two bodies opened outwards, and formed
into a line of skirmishers as neatly as if it were broad daylight and we were on ...
Noses were allowed to remain unattended to. When halfway, the time came to
extend ; and, on raising my hand, the two bodies opened outwards, and formed
into a line of skirmishers as neatly as if it were broad daylight and we were on ...
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These two unwarned by the previous disaster , wadies , with villages perched on
allowed the same thing to happen the cliffs which form their banks , to us .
Fortunately we were not form a striking feature in the far from the village of
Howara ...
These two unwarned by the previous disaster , wadies , with villages perched on
allowed the same thing to happen the cliffs which form their banks , to us .
Fortunately we were not form a striking feature in the far from the village of
Howara ...
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This arises from the fact that owing to an absence of a proper surveillance of
irrigation in the Fayoum, about three times more water is allowed to run into the
lake than the evaporation can carry off, as, owing to its depression below the
level of ...
This arises from the fact that owing to an absence of a proper surveillance of
irrigation in the Fayoum, about three times more water is allowed to run into the
lake than the evaporation can carry off, as, owing to its depression below the
level of ...
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I remembered now that there were just the six months remaining before the
completion of the time specified in the will, which were to be allowed me for
making my cousin's acquaintance. She and her mother had come to seek me out,
...
I remembered now that there were just the six months remaining before the
completion of the time specified in the will, which were to be allowed me for
making my cousin's acquaintance. She and her mother had come to seek me out,
...
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Էջ 569 - 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 257 - 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 359 - 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 213 - 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 147 - 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 359 - 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 32 - 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 394 - 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 232 - 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 600 - ... 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.