Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volum 141W. Blackwood & Sons, 1886 |
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Pàgina 37
... position . In Lon- don and in country - houses he moved in a very elevated stratum of society - in most gatherings of the most fashionable people he was pretty sure to be found . Great ladies talked of him as « Hay- ward . " Eminent ...
... position . In Lon- don and in country - houses he moved in a very elevated stratum of society - in most gatherings of the most fashionable people he was pretty sure to be found . Great ladies talked of him as « Hay- ward . " Eminent ...
Pàgina 48
... position of affairs was not reassuring . We numbered eight behind the screen , of whom two were hors de combat . Our available means of defence con- sisted of three revolvers and a double - barrelled gun . Of the European inmates of the ...
... position of affairs was not reassuring . We numbered eight behind the screen , of whom two were hors de combat . Our available means of defence con- sisted of three revolvers and a double - barrelled gun . Of the European inmates of the ...
Pàgina 51
... position and policy . Although one of our assailants , a stalwart young fellow with a somewhat hang - dog countenance , was taken prisoner and afterwards executed , we had some difficulty in making out at the time of whom the gang was ...
... position and policy . Although one of our assailants , a stalwart young fellow with a somewhat hang - dog countenance , was taken prisoner and afterwards executed , we had some difficulty in making out at the time of whom the gang was ...
Pàgina 53
... position of mat- ters , and urgently requesting him to come at once to our assist- ance . Meantime the native guards had been increased to 500 men . At one o'clock in the afternoon we were cheered by the sight of twenty blue - jackets ...
... position of mat- ters , and urgently requesting him to come at once to our assist- ance . Meantime the native guards had been increased to 500 men . At one o'clock in the afternoon we were cheered by the sight of twenty blue - jackets ...
Pàgina 64
... position in which they were so strangely placed , to allow his guest to retire , and inform her next morning , when she was thor- oughly rested , that Cicely was not in the house , having suddenly left . But it seemed to the young ...
... position in which they were so strangely placed , to allow his guest to retire , and inform her next morning , when she was thor- oughly rested , that Cicely was not in the house , having suddenly left . But it seemed to the young ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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!
Pàgina 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.