Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1857 |
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... turned of eleven years he had obtained , through Mr. Johnstone , a nomination to the mili- tary service of the East India Company . He was little more than twelve years of age when he left Burnfoot for London , on his way to the Indies ...
... turned of eleven years he had obtained , through Mr. Johnstone , a nomination to the mili- tary service of the East India Company . He was little more than twelve years of age when he left Burnfoot for London , on his way to the Indies ...
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... turned hither and thither hoping to evade his foes , and seeking the sanctuary which was not to be found . The dogs gathered madly around him , but we will throw a veil over his end , for in a few minutes more the gambling , gleesome ...
... turned hither and thither hoping to evade his foes , and seeking the sanctuary which was not to be found . The dogs gathered madly around him , but we will throw a veil over his end , for in a few minutes more the gambling , gleesome ...
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... turning in his saddle . We all turned , also , to see the gallant desert steed struggling to free himself from his Kaffir captors . His master's voice had been heard and recognised , and the sagacious creature had broken loose from the ...
... turning in his saddle . We all turned , also , to see the gallant desert steed struggling to free himself from his Kaffir captors . His master's voice had been heard and recognised , and the sagacious creature had broken loose from the ...
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... turned up at the toes , which were always in good condition , was rather asthma- tical and self - opinionative - not without a talent for slyly " taking down " any great talker who happened to be making too free in his presence with the ...
... turned up at the toes , which were always in good condition , was rather asthma- tical and self - opinionative - not without a talent for slyly " taking down " any great talker who happened to be making too free in his presence with the ...
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... turned of sixty , some years now ; who consulted Dr. More when things looked ill with a patient in the parish ; but he said very quietly , to one or two , that Mrs. More was a busybody and a plague of his life ; although to the ...
... turned of sixty , some years now ; who consulted Dr. More when things looked ill with a patient in the parish ; but he said very quietly , to one or two , that Mrs. More was a busybody and a plague of his life ; although to the ...
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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.