Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1857 |
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... nearly all , the intelligence and the power of the land ; yet the butchery of a great many thousand persons annually , neighbours and friends , or their children , is a serious - a ter- rible calamity , undergone with great resignation ...
... nearly all , the intelligence and the power of the land ; yet the butchery of a great many thousand persons annually , neighbours and friends , or their children , is a serious - a ter- rible calamity , undergone with great resignation ...
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... nearly midnight was tempting its mother home , who leant her back to the wall , needed its support , and refused to move on by a single step . The child argued the case , but the beldame argued too , that she was a good mother , a very ...
... nearly midnight was tempting its mother home , who leant her back to the wall , needed its support , and refused to move on by a single step . The child argued the case , but the beldame argued too , that she was a good mother , a very ...
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... Nearly 300 are already embarked for Bombay and Bengal . Lieutenant Malcolm's life in Madras was des- titute of excitement , over a period of peace passed in the family of Sir Alured Clarke . The Marquis Wellesley landed at Madras on his ...
... Nearly 300 are already embarked for Bombay and Bengal . Lieutenant Malcolm's life in Madras was des- titute of excitement , over a period of peace passed in the family of Sir Alured Clarke . The Marquis Wellesley landed at Madras on his ...
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... nearly all the Governor - Generals of these days were practised ; for it should be remembered that the course of post between Calcutta and London was then nearly twelve months , instead of the present three , which we trust will be ...
... nearly all the Governor - Generals of these days were practised ; for it should be remembered that the course of post between Calcutta and London was then nearly twelve months , instead of the present three , which we trust will be ...
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... nearly as soon have parted with life as with this large trophy of my prowess - never perceiving that my skill would have been more surely proved by its being remark- able in the opposite extreme . However , onward I toiled with my much ...
... nearly as soon have parted with life as with this large trophy of my prowess - never perceiving that my skill would have been more surely proved by its being remark- able in the opposite extreme . However , onward I toiled with my much ...
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Page 20 - We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away : It is the same ! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free : Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...
Page 337 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 295 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech : Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 99 - Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start...
Page 21 - Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air, It makes the reptile equal to the God...
Page 19 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 17 - He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life!
Page 461 - Committee seem to have entertained some alarm as to the high rate of speed which had been spoken of, and proceeded to examine the witness further on the subject. They supposed the case of the engine being upset when going at nine miles an hour, and asked what, in such a case, would become of the cargo astern. To which the witness replied, that it would not be upset. One of the members of the Committee pressed the witness a little further.
Page 403 - So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel's granary is full, And the harvest's done. 1 see a lily on thy brow With anguish moist and fever dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too.