Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 76W. Blackwood, 1854 |
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... cause of King Charles , our youthful Paladin sets forth upon his travels , father and mother being dead by this time , and the family home at Wotton become his brother's inheri- tance . After a most stately and edifying fashion these ...
... cause of King Charles , our youthful Paladin sets forth upon his travels , father and mother being dead by this time , and the family home at Wotton become his brother's inheri- tance . After a most stately and edifying fashion these ...
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... cause is , Pepys dies at last , full of honours - honours which he might have kept for ever , to the edifi- cation of posterity , but for these guilty volumes in the Pepysian library , which betray the respectable Samuel . If Samuel ...
... cause is , Pepys dies at last , full of honours - honours which he might have kept for ever , to the edifi- cation of posterity , but for these guilty volumes in the Pepysian library , which betray the respectable Samuel . If Samuel ...
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... cause , probably , of every subsequent impru- dence , and of all that gloomy disap- pointment which could afterwards but turn for its solace to field sports and jovial riot . It was not of the once- rumoured kind , from any unsuccessful ...
... cause , probably , of every subsequent impru- dence , and of all that gloomy disap- pointment which could afterwards but turn for its solace to field sports and jovial riot . It was not of the once- rumoured kind , from any unsuccessful ...
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... cause . If scruples he had , which is unlikely , he quieted them by a singular chain of reasoning . Venice had received Cyprus as a gift from Catharine Cor- naro , daughter of a Venetian , and widow of a king of that island . But this ...
... cause . If scruples he had , which is unlikely , he quieted them by a singular chain of reasoning . Venice had received Cyprus as a gift from Catharine Cor- naro , daughter of a Venetian , and widow of a king of that island . But this ...
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... cause must ever remain uncertain . The loss of Nicosia , quickly fol- lowed by that of the whole island , is attributed by Señor Rosell , with every appearance of reason , and upon the strength of Italian authorities , to the neglect of ...
... cause must ever remain uncertain . The loss of Nicosia , quickly fol- lowed by that of the whole island , is attributed by Señor Rosell , with every appearance of reason , and upon the strength of Italian authorities , to the neglect of ...
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Page 575 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 251 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 575 - Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 401 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Page 511 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Page 295 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Page 295 - Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out ; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it ; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, And spirit to them that walk therein...
Page 295 - For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: 'I am the LORD: and there is none else.
Page 569 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 294 - The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S : but the earth hath he given to the children of men.