Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... cause , and has not been casually and carelessly dropped by the way . " To pass , when life her light withdraws , Not void of righteous self - applause , Nor in a merely selfish cause- In some good cause - not in mine own , To perish ...
... cause , and has not been casually and carelessly dropped by the way . " To pass , when life her light withdraws , Not void of righteous self - applause , Nor in a merely selfish cause- In some good cause - not in mine own , To perish ...
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... causes of disease . Some of the witnesses ap- peared to attribute greater influence to one of these causes , some to an- other ; but there can be no doubt that the mortality was the effect , not of any one cause apart from the others ...
... causes of disease . Some of the witnesses ap- peared to attribute greater influence to one of these causes , some to an- other ; but there can be no doubt that the mortality was the effect , not of any one cause apart from the others ...
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... caused great anxiety . Had the 35th Native Infantry resisted , and the guns once opened fire , the 33d would have ... cause suspicion . The 35th Light Infantry were now or- dered to form in close column as they stood , on the opposite ...
... caused great anxiety . Had the 35th Native Infantry resisted , and the guns once opened fire , the 33d would have ... cause suspicion . The 35th Light Infantry were now or- dered to form in close column as they stood , on the opposite ...
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... causes had combined to engender a more peaceful character among them , and the Kshutree element was gradually ... cause to anticipate any seditious movement from this quarter ; nor , perhaps , was the conspiracy to which we are ...
... causes had combined to engender a more peaceful character among them , and the Kshutree element was gradually ... cause to anticipate any seditious movement from this quarter ; nor , perhaps , was the conspiracy to which we are ...
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... cause . Matilda had left on her writ- ing - table a letter for Miss Fossett . It was very short , very quietly ex- pressed , and it rested her justifica- life , the books never opened , the lute broken 1858. ] 51 What will he do with it ...
... cause . Matilda had left on her writ- ing - table a letter for Miss Fossett . It was very short , very quietly ex- pressed , and it rested her justifica- life , the books never opened , the lute broken 1858. ] 51 What will he do with it ...
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