The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 - English literature |
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... person like your Excellency ? " Upon this , he addressed me in terms too gross either to be borne or repeated . " This is rather too much , " said I , quitting the box , looking him full in the face , and pointing to my sword . Three or ...
... person like your Excellency ? " Upon this , he addressed me in terms too gross either to be borne or repeated . " This is rather too much , " said I , quitting the box , looking him full in the face , and pointing to my sword . Three or ...
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... person . I therefore embrace the ear- liest opportunity of warning you , my good Sir , to be on your guard , and keep a sharp look - out . Mayhap you would like to see a fair transcript of the billet in ques- tion . I anticipate your ...
... person . I therefore embrace the ear- liest opportunity of warning you , my good Sir , to be on your guard , and keep a sharp look - out . Mayhap you would like to see a fair transcript of the billet in ques- tion . I anticipate your ...
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... persons offending against the provi- sions of the Act , and the great prin- ciple of the abolition . This is further ... person of colour , delivered to the agent duly appointed to receive them ; a reward to informers , over and above ...
... persons offending against the provi- sions of the Act , and the great prin- ciple of the abolition . This is further ... person of colour , delivered to the agent duly appointed to receive them ; a reward to informers , over and above ...
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... persons who , like them , appropriate to themselves the title of Evangelical , he could not but con- clude , that we ... person- age , viz . self ; and perhaps neither is so very much concerned for the pub- lic , for whose temporal or ...
... persons who , like them , appropriate to themselves the title of Evangelical , he could not but con- clude , that we ... person- age , viz . self ; and perhaps neither is so very much concerned for the pub- lic , for whose temporal or ...
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... persons , and to prepare them for their untimely fate . Humanity requires it , Christianity enjoins it , the law of the ... person who has already begun his career of guilt , ob- serves that another , who he sees has done more atrocious ...
... persons , and to prepare them for their untimely fate . Humanity requires it , Christianity enjoins it , the law of the ... person who has already begun his career of guilt , ob- serves that another , who he sees has done more atrocious ...
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Page 62 - When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness.
Page 53 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 94 - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of riral economy.
Page 164 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
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Page 75 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 94 - ... who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade, nor enjoy its shelter ; but he exults in the idea, that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing, and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields.
Page 250 - An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains; Especially of Those Found in the British Strata: Intended to Aid the Student in His Inquiries Respecting the Nature of Fossils and Their Connection With the Formation of the Earth (London, 1822).
Page 148 - ... Grouchy's corps. He replied, " certainly ; and I can now scarcely comprehend why it was a Prussian division and not that of Grouchy." I then took the liberty of asking, whether, if neither Grouchy nor the Prussians had arrived, it would not have been a drawn battle. Napoleon answered, "the English army would have been destroyed. They were defeated at mid-day. But accident, or more likely destiny, decided that Lord Wellington should gain it. I could scarcely believe that he would have given me...