Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... letter to a tenant farmer of her own , stating that he was carrying papers to Edinburgh urgently required in a lawsuit before the courts . The farmer was to furnish a horse , and conduct him to Wemyss on the coast . " I delivered the letter ...
... letter to a tenant farmer of her own , stating that he was carrying papers to Edinburgh urgently required in a lawsuit before the courts . The farmer was to furnish a horse , and conduct him to Wemyss on the coast . " I delivered the letter ...
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... letter of introduction from his lordship to Mr John Young , Writer to the Signet , " for the purpose of examining into the rights of an estate to which he laid claim . " Another activity of his advancing years was the writing of his ...
... letter of introduction from his lordship to Mr John Young , Writer to the Signet , " for the purpose of examining into the rights of an estate to which he laid claim . " Another activity of his advancing years was the writing of his ...
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... letter , which they think lost them an election , and which they de- nounce now as a forgery , though they will not tell us whether it was Mr Baldwin who forged it or a Bolshevik cynic in Moscow . Indeed , they have said so many things ...
... letter , which they think lost them an election , and which they de- nounce now as a forgery , though they will not tell us whether it was Mr Baldwin who forged it or a Bolshevik cynic in Moscow . Indeed , they have said so many things ...
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... letter to Russia about Appel- baum's forged letter ; that the letter , genuine or not , was not worth a moment's thought ; that the British people did not care a button if it was genuine or not ; that it lost the Socialists the General ...
... letter to Russia about Appel- baum's forged letter ; that the letter , genuine or not , was not worth a moment's thought ; that the British people did not care a button if it was genuine or not ; that it lost the Socialists the General ...
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... letter entrusting you to the care of a nephew of mine , Captain Francis K , who by good fortune happens to be in on the station there , in command of H.M.S. Vesuvius , due to sail the day after to- morrow at eight in the morning . You ...
... letter entrusting you to the care of a nephew of mine , Captain Francis K , who by good fortune happens to be in on the station there , in command of H.M.S. Vesuvius , due to sail the day after to- morrow at eight in the morning . You ...
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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...
Página 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
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.