Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... perhaps a small additional per- centage to balance the disabled , and bringing them to their post hale , san- guine , unharassed , through the most careful and costly organisation for their transit and sustenance . The other method is ...
... perhaps a small additional per- centage to balance the disabled , and bringing them to their post hale , san- guine , unharassed , through the most careful and costly organisation for their transit and sustenance . The other method is ...
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... perhaps the latter fares rather above the average of the householder at large . The conscrip- tion system has its influence in mak- ing the thing work easily — it is your destiny to carry arms and live with me to - day - it may be mine ...
... perhaps the latter fares rather above the average of the householder at large . The conscrip- tion system has its influence in mak- ing the thing work easily — it is your destiny to carry arms and live with me to - day - it may be mine ...
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... perhaps , and Johnson was a man with relentless prejudices , which he uttered hyperbolically he exaggerated much when he said , “ A ship is a prison , with the chance of being drowned it is worse - worse in every respect - worse air ...
... perhaps , and Johnson was a man with relentless prejudices , which he uttered hyperbolically he exaggerated much when he said , “ A ship is a prison , with the chance of being drowned it is worse - worse in every respect - worse air ...
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... Perhaps it may be stated as a parallel floodmark of filth , that a dead horse and hospital dressings are attested to have been seen in the tank for supplying one of the hospitals with water . And so enough of this dismal piece of expe ...
... Perhaps it may be stated as a parallel floodmark of filth , that a dead horse and hospital dressings are attested to have been seen in the tank for supplying one of the hospitals with water . And so enough of this dismal piece of expe ...
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... perhaps write a good report : and my experience of the profession is , that in nine cases out of ten , the best practical men are the worst at making reports . Yet this man will rarely be brought to the special notice of the Director ...
... perhaps write a good report : and my experience of the profession is , that in nine cases out of ten , the best practical men are the worst at making reports . Yet this man will rarely be brought to the special notice of the Director ...
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Page 410 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 465 - To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years, and not one jot or tittle has been added to them by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.
Page 257 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest...
Page 415 - My blessin' and my pride; There's nothing left to care for now, Since my poor Mary died. Yours was the good, brave heart, Mary, That still kept hoping on, When the trust in God had left my soul, And my arm's young strength was gone; There was comfort ever on your lip, And the kind look on your brow, — 1 bless you, Mary, for that same, Though you cannot hear me now.
Page 102 - And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Page 523 - O, thou child of many prayers ! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares ! Care and age come unawares ! Like the swell of some sweet tune, Morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June.
Page 193 - Onward they came in their joy, and around them the lamps of the sea-nymphs, Myriad fiery globes, swam panting and heaving ; and rainbows Crimson and azure and emerald, were broken in star-showers, lighting Far through the wine-dark depths of the crystal, the gardens Coral and sea-fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of, the ocean.
Page 418 - Nor scream can any raise, nor prayer can any say, But wild, wild, the terror of the speechless three — For they feel fair Anna Grace drawn silently away, By whom they dare not look to see. They feel their tresses twine with her parting locks of gold, And the curls elastic falling, as her head withdraws ; They feel her sliding arms from their tranced arms unfold, But they...
Page 417 - Are hushed the maidens' voices, as cowering down they lie In the flutter of their sudden awe. For, from the air above, and the grassy ground beneath, And from the mountain-ashes and the old whitethorn between, A power of faint enchantment doth through their beings breathe, And they sink down together on the green.