Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumul 105William Blackwood, 1869 |
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Pagina 39
... troop , with his two lobes of brain of different and universal separating power , wait- ing , with neck stretched forward , saucer - eyes staring , mouth agape , to sing through the nose the pæan of victory , Comprehensus est pecca- tor ...
... troop , with his two lobes of brain of different and universal separating power , wait- ing , with neck stretched forward , saucer - eyes staring , mouth agape , to sing through the nose the pæan of victory , Comprehensus est pecca- tor ...
Pagina 61
... troop . Promotion was going fast then ( the sun had something to say to that , and cholera a good deal ) ; but as I was an infantry fellow , I had the drill and riding - school busi- ness to go through , and that was a bore . Somehow I ...
... troop . Promotion was going fast then ( the sun had something to say to that , and cholera a good deal ) ; but as I was an infantry fellow , I had the drill and riding - school busi- ness to go through , and that was a bore . Somehow I ...
Pagina 71
... troops remain under canvass , even with great and constant fires , and the country hardly produces wood enough to cook the men's food . Before concluding , I may be permitted to say a word with regard to this army . It re- quires , and ...
... troops remain under canvass , even with great and constant fires , and the country hardly produces wood enough to cook the men's food . Before concluding , I may be permitted to say a word with regard to this army . It re- quires , and ...
Pagina 75
... troops to get ready , and the cavalry to come up from their camp near the foot of the Chersonese . The fast ... troop of horse - artillery got into action on the right of the Arabtabia ; and Lord Lucan en- deavoured , by demonstrations ...
... troops to get ready , and the cavalry to come up from their camp near the foot of the Chersonese . The fast ... troop of horse - artillery got into action on the right of the Arabtabia ; and Lord Lucan en- deavoured , by demonstrations ...
Pagina 79
... troops , when Hunt's men came upon them . " Piercing their line like an arrow , Captain Hunt shot through it , and was followed in the next instant by the squadron behind him , which came crash- ing on upon the rear of the wheeling ...
... troops , when Hunt's men came upon them . " Piercing their line like an arrow , Captain Hunt shot through it , and was followed in the next instant by the squadron behind him , which came crash- ing on upon the rear of the wheeling ...
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Pagina 102 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Pagina 683 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Pagina 501 - I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision; but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people and one language and one law and one faith, and over all that wide continent the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Pagina 683 - I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Pagina 17 - But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them. I answer, you may so, there is no difficulty in it ; but what is all this, I beseech you, more than framing in your mind certain ideas which you call books and trees, and at the same time omitting to frame the idea of any one that may perceive them?
Pagina 230 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
Pagina 24 - A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 '[ Fothergill, John].
Pagina 26 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads, and noblest hearts.
Pagina 682 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Pagina 649 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.