Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... dark- ened the lustre of British prosperity . Wherever our sword has been drawn , it has been that of the protector and the liberator , not of the oppressor and enslaver- Pacisque imponere morem , Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos ...
... dark- ened the lustre of British prosperity . Wherever our sword has been drawn , it has been that of the protector and the liberator , not of the oppressor and enslaver- Pacisque imponere morem , Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos ...
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... dark as a dun- geon , which I understood was im- mersed several feet under water , be- ing immediately above the hold . I had no sooner approached this dis- mal gulf than my nose was saluted with an intolerable stench of putri- fied ...
... dark as a dun- geon , which I understood was im- mersed several feet under water , be- ing immediately above the hold . I had no sooner approached this dis- mal gulf than my nose was saluted with an intolerable stench of putri- fied ...
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... dark as a dun- geon , which I understood was im- mersed several feet under water , be- ing immediately above the hold . I had no sooner approached this dis- mal gulf than my nose was saluted with an intolerable stench of putri- fied ...
... dark as a dun- geon , which I understood was im- mersed several feet under water , be- ing immediately above the hold . I had no sooner approached this dis- mal gulf than my nose was saluted with an intolerable stench of putri- fied ...
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... dark side of this statement , is entirely sunk in the much greater question , whether any system is to blame ? Routine has got a deal of obloquy for it , but there must be routine in the public service . It is the only way in which the ...
... dark side of this statement , is entirely sunk in the much greater question , whether any system is to blame ? Routine has got a deal of obloquy for it , but there must be routine in the public service . It is the only way in which the ...
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... dark , finding all around still and quiet , they came out of their hiding - place and walked to the fort . Here also others , who had been providentially preserved , were coming in Colonel Farquharson and Captain Caulfield , of the 46th ...
... dark , finding all around still and quiet , they came out of their hiding - place and walked to the fort . Here also others , who had been providentially preserved , were coming in Colonel Farquharson and Captain Caulfield , of the 46th ...
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