Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Página 107
... pirate from all refuges and markets , for the ruffian must have food and rest , and he plunders to sell . From the ... pirates that all who could afford the expense took the long and costly over- land route when they were bound to go ...
... pirate from all refuges and markets , for the ruffian must have food and rest , and he plunders to sell . From the ... pirates that all who could afford the expense took the long and costly over- land route when they were bound to go ...
Página 108
... pirates on the west coast of Ireland . The traders fostered the evil from which they suf- fered by ransoming their ships and cargoes , and by buying back goods which had been taken . This was notoriously the resource of the merchants of ...
... pirates on the west coast of Ireland . The traders fostered the evil from which they suf- fered by ransoming their ships and cargoes , and by buying back goods which had been taken . This was notoriously the resource of the merchants of ...
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... pirates used to depend upon strata- gems to board the ship they had marked down for their prey . Their usual method with the outer barbarians was to trade on their inexplicable chivalry . The pirates would pretend to be in distress ...
... pirates used to depend upon strata- gems to board the ship they had marked down for their prey . Their usual method with the outer barbarians was to trade on their inexplicable chivalry . The pirates would pretend to be in distress ...
Página 434
... pirates lenient , resistance turns them into the most vin- Idictive devils under the vault of heaven . Probably the worst example of this occurred in 1914 , when the officers of the Tai On resisted an attack of pirates in the West River ...
... pirates lenient , resistance turns them into the most vin- Idictive devils under the vault of heaven . Probably the worst example of this occurred in 1914 , when the officers of the Tai On resisted an attack of pirates in the West River ...
Página 435
... Pirates ! In angry compliance he al- lowed himself to be driven down to the chart - room on the deck below . " Pirates ! " he shouted to Captain Pringle , but the warning was too late . The pirates had them both covered , and the logic ...
... Pirates ! In angry compliance he al- lowed himself to be driven down to the chart - room on the deck below . " Pirates ! " he shouted to Captain Pringle , but the warning was too late . The pirates had them both covered , and the logic ...
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Página 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Página 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Página 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Página 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Página 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Página 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Página 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
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Página 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Página 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.