Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 221William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... mind that kind of trouble , and how it was simple enough to settle just ordinary foolishness like that with nothing ugly behind it . 666 What worries me , ' he says , is this small knife outfit the beggars have started . How they ...
... mind that kind of trouble , and how it was simple enough to settle just ordinary foolishness like that with nothing ugly behind it . 666 What worries me , ' he says , is this small knife outfit the beggars have started . How they ...
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... mind I was a fine sample of a nervous wreck by the time we'd run across the Indian Ocean and raised Achin Head . One night , when we were about half - way down the Malacca Straits , I was standing up here trying to make up my mind ...
... mind I was a fine sample of a nervous wreck by the time we'd run across the Indian Ocean and raised Achin Head . One night , when we were about half - way down the Malacca Straits , I was standing up here trying to make up my mind ...
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... mind to wait and drop over the side one night and swim for it if we passed close enough to any land . It was a mighty slim chance ; but the man was desperate , and I could see he meant to do what he said . I was the only soul aboard who ...
... mind to wait and drop over the side one night and swim for it if we passed close enough to any land . It was a mighty slim chance ; but the man was desperate , and I could see he meant to do what he said . I was the only soul aboard who ...
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but of this I could no longer hear . I impressed upon his mind that to Whitehurst I was entirely indebted for having got to Granville at all with my ignorance of the French language ; but it was all to no purpose , and we took leave of ...
but of this I could no longer hear . I impressed upon his mind that to Whitehurst I was entirely indebted for having got to Granville at all with my ignorance of the French language ; but it was all to no purpose , and we took leave of ...
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... mind the scene in the prison yard . Fastidious persons suffering from delicate stomachs would derive a salu- tary cure after a few months ' experience such as we encount- ered . The vicissitudes of our march from Caen to Verdun were ...
... mind the scene in the prison yard . Fastidious persons suffering from delicate stomachs would derive a salu- tary cure after a few months ' experience such as we encount- ered . The vicissitudes of our march from Caen to Verdun were ...
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Página 398 - gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also ; but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. O! ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus.
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Página 679 - is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.'
Página 680 - : " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country.
Página 677 - will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues.
Página 681 - had a notion not very peculiar that he could not write but at certain times or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Página 677 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? But the
Página 683 - writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent.
Página 576 - has long lain halfhidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, meeting where he likes, bawling what he likes, breaking what he likes.
Página 568 - The Soviet Government undertakes not to support with funds or in any other form persons or bodies or agencies or institutions whose aim is to spread discontent or to foment rebellion in any part of the British Empire, and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions.