Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 141W. Blackwood & Sons, 1886 - Scotland |
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... kind , though what I saw above me was a lowering canopy of cloud , dark , threatening , with a faint reddish tint diffused upon the vap- orous darkness . It was , however , quite sufficiently clear to see every- thing , and there was a ...
... kind , though what I saw above me was a lowering canopy of cloud , dark , threatening , with a faint reddish tint diffused upon the vap- orous darkness . It was , however , quite sufficiently clear to see every- thing , and there was a ...
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... kind of passengers , but the same hubbub and unresting movement everywhere . I saw no signs of melancholy or seriousness ; active pain , violence , brutality , the continued shock of quarrels and blows ; but no pensive faces about , no ...
... kind of passengers , but the same hubbub and unresting movement everywhere . I saw no signs of melancholy or seriousness ; active pain , violence , brutality , the continued shock of quarrels and blows ; but no pensive faces about , no ...
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... kind , " he cried . " How do you think you could force other people to serve you ? Can you terrify them or hurt them , or give them anything ? You have not learnt yet who are the masters here . " This troubled me , for it was true . " I ...
... kind , " he cried . " How do you think you could force other people to serve you ? Can you terrify them or hurt them , or give them anything ? You have not learnt yet who are the masters here . " This troubled me , for it was true . " I ...
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... kind of government . They came up to me and bade me come with them in tones which were peremptory enough .: but what of that ? -better the most peremp- tory supervision than the lawless- ness from which I had come . They raised me from ...
... kind of government . They came up to me and bade me come with them in tones which were peremptory enough .: but what of that ? -better the most peremp- tory supervision than the lawless- ness from which I had come . They raised me from ...
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... kind of madman in his way ; for what was this claim of age ? -a piece of bravado , no doubt , like the rest . " That is strange , " I said , as- senting , as when there is such a hallucination it is best to do . " You can tell me , then ...
... kind of madman in his way ; for what was this claim of age ? -a piece of bravado , no doubt , like the rest . " That is strange , " I said , as- senting , as when there is such a hallucination it is best to do . " You can tell me , then ...
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Page 343 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 354 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Page 425 - English corn and manufactures to Edinburgh, necessarily replaces, by every such operation, TWO British capitals which had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of Great Britain.
Page 140 - That we hold the right of private judgment in matters of religion, to be equally sacred in others as in ourselves. Resolved therefore, That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman catholic fellow-subjects...
Page 425 - The capital which is employed in purchasing in one part of the country in order to sell in another the produce of the industry of that country, generally replaces by every such operation two distinct capitals that had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of that country, and thereby enables them to continue that employment.
Page 149 - My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British empire must be dissolved.
Page 89 - ... and preciousness of architecture ; and it is not until a building has assumed this character, till it has been entrusted with the fame and hallowed by the deeds of men, till its walls have been witnesses of suffering and its pillars rise out of the...
Page 254 - People are continually saying that America is in the air, and I am glad to think it is, since this means only that a clearer conception of human claims and human duties is beginning to be prevalent. The discontent with the existing order of things, however, pervaded the atmosphere wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America. I say wherever the conditions were favorable, for it is certain that the...
Page 343 - Youth! for years so many and sweet, 'Tis known that Thou and I were one, I'll think it but a fond conceit— It cannot be that Thou art gone!
Page 91 - Jerusalem;" in treating of which, he says, he " so applied the corruption that was then to the corruption that is in the papistry, and Christ's fact to the duty of those to whom God giveth power, and zeal thereto, that as well the magistrates, the provost and bailies, as the commonalty, did agree to remove all monuments of idolatry, which also they did with expedition.