Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen 34W. Blackwood & Sons, 1833 |
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... head , exclaimed , - " With my head I will go bail for Mr Blackwood ; I know him , and he is a man of honour ! " The pre- sident of the court then angrily replied , - " Your head be that security- you answer with your life for the ...
... head , exclaimed , - " With my head I will go bail for Mr Blackwood ; I know him , and he is a man of honour ! " The pre- sident of the court then angrily replied , - " Your head be that security- you answer with your life for the ...
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... head from employment has been in such a gale of wind , that I have not been able to devote a thought almost to the loss of such a friend . On the day of action , he not only gave me the command of all the frigates for the purpose of ...
... head from employment has been in such a gale of wind , that I have not been able to devote a thought almost to the loss of such a friend . On the day of action , he not only gave me the command of all the frigates for the purpose of ...
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... head of which is poor Sibthorpe , of whom , poor fel- low , as we both jumped overboard , I took leave , and begged he would keep as near to me as he could ; but , from the moment he touched the water , I never saw him more . many of ...
... head of which is poor Sibthorpe , of whom , poor fel- low , as we both jumped overboard , I took leave , and begged he would keep as near to me as he could ; but , from the moment he touched the water , I never saw him more . many of ...
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... head of the ship , which , being to wind ward , was safest . Aware that coolness was the best means of preserving my own life , as well as that of not hurry- ing men overboard who could not swim , I stood on the gangway , till the crowd ...
... head of the ship , which , being to wind ward , was safest . Aware that coolness was the best means of preserving my own life , as well as that of not hurry- ing men overboard who could not swim , I stood on the gangway , till the crowd ...
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... head of the Government is to be at the head of that Government or of any thing else . His qualification , however , is of a different kind from the usual requisites : it is simply , that from his voters being chiefly farmers , and not ...
... head of the Government is to be at the head of that Government or of any thing else . His qualification , however , is of a different kind from the usual requisites : it is simply , that from his voters being chiefly farmers , and not ...
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Página 311 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 312 - And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Página 320 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as...
Página 77 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 46 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Página 320 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew, from every quarter, whatever a savage ferocity could add...
Página 35 - ... temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of...
Página 311 - Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub, And bush with frizzled hair implicit : Last Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemm'd Their blossoms: With high .woods the hills were crown'd ; With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side ; With borders long the rivers : that Earth now Seem'd like to Heaven, a seat where Gods might dwell, Or wander with delight, and love to haunt Her sacred shades...
Página 464 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, , To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain...
Página 35 - He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or...