Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 61W. Blackwood., 1847 |
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... nation . This can only be attributed to his manners , which are reserved , and thought to indicate pride ; but this seeming haughtiness is said to disap- pear upon nearer acquaintance . Of the two younger brothers , the charac- ters ...
... nation . This can only be attributed to his manners , which are reserved , and thought to indicate pride ; but this seeming haughtiness is said to disap- pear upon nearer acquaintance . Of the two younger brothers , the charac- ters ...
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... nations , actuated by separate interests , inflamed by different passions . Both had the utmost difficulty in ... nation , which , albeit covetous of military glory , and proud of warlike renown , is to the last de- gree impatient ...
... nations , actuated by separate interests , inflamed by different passions . Both had the utmost difficulty in ... nation , which , albeit covetous of military glory , and proud of warlike renown , is to the last de- gree impatient ...
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... nations have fought , during five centuries , the English have proved victorious ? That England's military force ... nation not to be conquered , is of such value in war , that it compensates almost any degree of inferiority in the ...
... nations have fought , during five centuries , the English have proved victorious ? That England's military force ... nation not to be conquered , is of such value in war , that it compensates almost any degree of inferiority in the ...
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... nation , after a brief but busy cam- paign , see themselves compelled to submission , their emperor an exile , their ... nations was strongly marked . To the right the hussars had assembled , crowded round three or four tables ; on ...
... nation , after a brief but busy cam- paign , see themselves compelled to submission , their emperor an exile , their ... nations was strongly marked . To the right the hussars had assembled , crowded round three or four tables ; on ...
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... nation , were strongly and decidedly in favour of the measure , why should they be unable to give effect to those opinions ? -what need would they have of all the circuitous and underhand process employed by the late Premier ? No damage ...
... nation , were strongly and decidedly in favour of the measure , why should they be unable to give effect to those opinions ? -what need would they have of all the circuitous and underhand process employed by the late Premier ? No damage ...
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Page 386 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 129 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 128 - License they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good : But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 343 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 627 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 418 - I called not myself to this place. I say again, I called not myself to this place ! Of that God is witness : — and I have many witnesses who, I do believe, could lay down their lives bearing witness to the truth of that. Namely, That I called not myself to this place...
Page 407 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 406 - Thirdly, Whether this Army be not a lawful Power, called by God to oppose and fight against the king upon some stated grounds ; and being in power to such ends, may not oppose one Name of Authority, for those ends, as well as another Name...
Page 411 - I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the Town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men...
Page 556 - METHINKS we do as fretful children do, Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view : And thus, alas, since God the maker drew A mystic separation 'twixt those twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we are called unto By grief we are fools to use.