Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 130W. Blackwood & Sons, 1881 |
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... reached Newcastle , having been just 46 hours in doing 180 miles , and we found on inquiry that the mail - cart on to Pretoria had ceased to run ; for the last two days it had not come in , being detained by the Boers . Here was what I ...
... reached Newcastle , having been just 46 hours in doing 180 miles , and we found on inquiry that the mail - cart on to Pretoria had ceased to run ; for the last two days it had not come in , being detained by the Boers . Here was what I ...
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... reaching the wall unperceived . There were patrols about , possibly sentries ; all was unknown to us ; and the men's feet made such a VOL . CXXX.-NO. DCCLXXXIX . noise , I was on tenter - hooks lest we should be heard . One of them with ...
... reaching the wall unperceived . There were patrols about , possibly sentries ; all was unknown to us ; and the men's feet made such a VOL . CXXX.-NO. DCCLXXXIX . noise , I was on tenter - hooks lest we should be heard . One of them with ...
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... reached this gloomy region of architectural skill . A group of ground - plans , on the last accepted model , would show us buildings radiating from centres , like so many great wheels . The officers in charge are arrayed in the uniform ...
... reached this gloomy region of architectural skill . A group of ground - plans , on the last accepted model , would show us buildings radiating from centres , like so many great wheels . The officers in charge are arrayed in the uniform ...
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... reached the spot nearest the Pyra- mid , where we intended to re- embark , while we started off along the banks on donkey - back . We now soon began to observe evidences of antiquity ; and these were of especial interest when we reached ...
... reached the spot nearest the Pyra- mid , where we intended to re- embark , while we started off along the banks on donkey - back . We now soon began to observe evidences of antiquity ; and these were of especial interest when we reached ...
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... reached our destination , after a journey of three hours and a half from Medinet . The first view of the Labyrinth was eminently dis- appointing , and consisted of noth- ing but mounds of ruins . How ever , in the midst of these we came ...
... reached our destination , after a journey of three hours and a half from Medinet . The first view of the Labyrinth was eminently dis- appointing , and consisted of noth- ing but mounds of ruins . How ever , in the midst of these we came ...
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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.