Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 130W. Blackwood & Sons, 1881 |
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... able to hold out ; and I made some mild speeches to the effect that they must help to defend them- selves , calling on them to come for- ward as volunteers , foot or horse , letting them choose their own offi- cers , arming and drilling ...
... able to hold out ; and I made some mild speeches to the effect that they must help to defend them- selves , calling on them to come for- ward as volunteers , foot or horse , letting them choose their own offi- cers , arming and drilling ...
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... able to send down to the General through the Free State ; so the dynamite turned up for a better use than was intended . The more tragical events of the siege began earlier than was ex- pected - indeed , before it was en- tirely ...
... able to send down to the General through the Free State ; so the dynamite turned up for a better use than was intended . The more tragical events of the siege began earlier than was ex- pected - indeed , before it was en- tirely ...
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... able to realise the fact that the town is completely invested by a band of ruthless rebels . Civilians and military men , and women and children , appear , now that the grim reality of the position has come home to them , to have ...
... able to realise the fact that the town is completely invested by a band of ruthless rebels . Civilians and military men , and women and children , appear , now that the grim reality of the position has come home to them , to have ...
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... able crime , may also enjoy with the habitual criminal a sense of peace and gloomy repose when he takes his place in the cells for convicted prisoners . His life may have been for any number of years a succession of dexterous and narrow ...
... able crime , may also enjoy with the habitual criminal a sense of peace and gloomy repose when he takes his place in the cells for convicted prisoners . His life may have been for any number of years a succession of dexterous and narrow ...
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... able . Yet it would not be wise , or consistent with British notions of the sacredness of personal liberty , that none but the officers of a prison should have access to it , and oppor- tunity of communication with its criminal ...
... able . Yet it would not be wise , or consistent with British notions of the sacredness of personal liberty , that none but the officers of a prison should have access to it , and oppor- tunity of communication with its criminal ...
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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.