Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 10Macmillan and Company, 1864 |
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... Erne , I had hitherto made a mess of it , and always resorted to the vernacular in emergencies , or for business purposes ) , " I didn't care about the play to - night . I saw a young chap run over , and that upset me for the evening ...
... Erne , I had hitherto made a mess of it , and always resorted to the vernacular in emergencies , or for business purposes ) , " I didn't care about the play to - night . I saw a young chap run over , and that upset me for the evening ...
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... Erne more than you , but not so much as George . And I like Reuben the water- man , and his cousin the blacksmith , Jim - I mean , you know , Erne's friend -the tall lad with the large brown eyes , who sat under the tomb that first ...
... Erne more than you , but not so much as George . And I like Reuben the water- man , and his cousin the blacksmith , Jim - I mean , you know , Erne's friend -the tall lad with the large brown eyes , who sat under the tomb that first ...
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... Erne will not be so rich as I thought . ” George watched them too , with hope . -hope sometimes alternated with des- pair . Sir George would be sitting beside Gerty absorbed in a kind of pitying admiration of her for an hour or more ...
... Erne will not be so rich as I thought . ” George watched them too , with hope . -hope sometimes alternated with des- pair . Sir George would be sitting beside Gerty absorbed in a kind of pitying admiration of her for an hour or more ...
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... Erne's head like a garland . Then George would set his teeth and curse Erne silently in his heart , for his hatred of him grew stronger day by day . He knew that Erne was utterly simple and undesigning ; that he loved Gerty- nay , that ...
... Erne's head like a garland . Then George would set his teeth and curse Erne silently in his heart , for his hatred of him grew stronger day by day . He knew that Erne was utterly simple and undesigning ; that he loved Gerty- nay , that ...
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... Erne , looking so wonderfully handsome and so exquisitely clean , that going to Augusta Court to superintend the empty- ing of a cesspool became absolutely im- possible . Certainly , what Joe said was true ; Erne was making fine ...
... Erne , looking so wonderfully handsome and so exquisitely clean , that going to Augusta Court to superintend the empty- ing of a cesspool became absolutely im- possible . Certainly , what Joe said was true ; Erne was making fine ...
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Page 199 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 49 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 83 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Page 6 - To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Page 2 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Page 178 - ... Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripped with her pail ; ; And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's, The one only dwelling on earth that she loves. She looks, and her heart is in heaven : but they fade, The mist and the river, the hill and the shade : The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, And the colours have all passed away...
Page 6 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern ; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Page 3 - We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands pre-eminent even among the languages of the West.
Page 4 - Plato, and the language of Cicero and Tacitus, had they confined their attention to the old dialects of our own island, had they printed nothing and taught nothing at the universities but chronicles in Anglo-Saxon and romances in Norman French, - would England ever have been what she now is?
Page 36 - Edina ! Scotia's darling seat ! All hail thy palaces and towers, Where once beneath a monarch's feet Sat Legislation's sovereign powers...