Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65William Blackwood, 1849 - England |
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... seen anything like it before ; it is doubtful if it will ever see anything like it again . Under its shelter , the various interests of the em- pire were knit together in so close a manner , that they not only all grew and prospered ...
... seen anything like it before ; it is doubtful if it will ever see anything like it again . Under its shelter , the various interests of the em- pire were knit together in so close a manner , that they not only all grew and prospered ...
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... seen busily engaged in roasting their victims before a large fire upon a neighbouring slope ; but whether this was a fact or not , I never learned . " It was possibly true . Escoffier tells us how one of his fellow- prisoners , a Jew ...
... seen busily engaged in roasting their victims before a large fire upon a neighbouring slope ; but whether this was a fact or not , I never learned . " It was possibly true . Escoffier tells us how one of his fellow- prisoners , a Jew ...
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... seen , with a sort of sad amaze , how calm and undisturbed all is there ? That generation which has gone before thee in the path of the passions - the generation of thy pa- rents- ( not so many years , perchance , remote from thine own ) ...
... seen , with a sort of sad amaze , how calm and undisturbed all is there ? That generation which has gone before thee in the path of the passions - the generation of thy pa- rents- ( not so many years , perchance , remote from thine own ) ...
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... seen by day- light , seems to find particular pleasure in licking my face , pulling my beard , and purring continually , thus keeping off the insects . Generally the cats in Bellet - Suden are of a very wild and fierce nature , which ...
... seen by day- light , seems to find particular pleasure in licking my face , pulling my beard , and purring continually , thus keeping off the insects . Generally the cats in Bellet - Suden are of a very wild and fierce nature , which ...
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... seen them . The glands , contain- ing a secretion resembling musk , are situated in the hinder part of the ani- mal , as in the civet cats of Bellet Sudan , which are kept in cages for the collection of the perfume . " As the travellers ...
... seen them . The glands , contain- ing a secretion resembling musk , are situated in the hinder part of the ani- mal , as in the civet cats of Bellet Sudan , which are kept in cages for the collection of the perfume . " As the travellers ...
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Page 382 - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:" and Mr Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers.
Page 81 - He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
Page 201 - And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Page 385 - ... were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction...
Page 25 - And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite : let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity : slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women : but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.
Page 385 - Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Page 385 - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
Page 385 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow.
Page 198 - And did not he make one ? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one ? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Page 5 - All around us the world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Governments which lately seemed likely to stand during ages have been on a sudden shaken and overthrown. The proudest capitals of Western Europe have streamed with civil blood.