Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 130W. Blackwood & Sons, 1881 |
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... head that anything but a volley was the proper reception for the flag ; and as I went down the line of men behind the shelters towards the drift to which the flag was coming , I found every man with his sight up and his rifle pointed in ...
... head that anything but a volley was the proper reception for the flag ; and as I went down the line of men behind the shelters towards the drift to which the flag was coming , I found every man with his sight up and his rifle pointed in ...
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... heads drooping , horses done up completely , and five of their number on the ground . Then , balked of the rest , the ... head and another facing it a hundred yards farther on ; and close to the turfs that cov- ered up the bones a coat ...
... heads drooping , horses done up completely , and five of their number on the ground . Then , balked of the rest , the ... head and another facing it a hundred yards farther on ; and close to the turfs that cov- ered up the bones a coat ...
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... head might desert me at the critical moment . It is easy enough to go out under orders , but to be yourself the head and tail means more than people think ; and I did think , but nothing would have turned me from my purpose now I had ...
... head might desert me at the critical moment . It is easy enough to go out under orders , but to be yourself the head and tail means more than people think ; and I did think , but nothing would have turned me from my purpose now I had ...
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... head bent forwards , look- ing out ; and the men on my right where the wall ended could see him too , and clutched their rifles , and only waited for a word . Still he rode on , inclining to- wards the house , and I could see now he was ...
... head bent forwards , look- ing out ; and the men on my right where the wall ended could see him too , and clutched their rifles , and only waited for a word . Still he rode on , inclining to- wards the house , and I could see now he was ...
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... head of the boating fraternity on the feasibility of my project , and found that ten heavy barges and two small boats composed the entire carrying ca- pacity of the river . The barges are used for conveying manure to the fields ...
... head of the boating fraternity on the feasibility of my project , and found that ten heavy barges and two small boats composed the entire carrying ca- pacity of the river . The barges are used for conveying manure to the fields ...
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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.