Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Band 141W. Blackwood & Sons, 1886 |
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... person of importance , of great knowledge and information , could not be doubted . He was very pale , and of a worn but command- ing aspect . The lines of his face were deeply drawn , his eyes were sunk under high arched brows , from ...
... person of importance , of great knowledge and information , could not be doubted . He was very pale , and of a worn but command- ing aspect . The lines of his face were deeply drawn , his eyes were sunk under high arched brows , from ...
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... persons dining at his club gravitated to the table where , like Cato , he gave his little senate laws . Foreign statesmen , known throughout Europe , were his correspondents , and when they visited London , would seek inter- views with ...
... persons dining at his club gravitated to the table where , like Cato , he gave his little senate laws . Foreign statesmen , known throughout Europe , were his correspondents , and when they visited London , would seek inter- views with ...
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... person in a difficulty , and , at moments when fear of change was perplexing min- istries , might be met with hur- rying from one great man to an- other , hanging on their arms in the public ways , asserting their policy , denouncing ...
... person in a difficulty , and , at moments when fear of change was perplexing min- istries , might be met with hur- rying from one great man to an- other , hanging on their arms in the public ways , asserting their policy , denouncing ...
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... person , than personally to assail himself ; the phraseology would have gained force by being more carefully chosen than what he was accustomed to utter , his criticisms on men and their works would have found expression more worthy of ...
... person , than personally to assail himself ; the phraseology would have gained force by being more carefully chosen than what he was accustomed to utter , his criticisms on men and their works would have found expression more worthy of ...
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... person of low standing , have not patience to stand by and and see the sacred empire defiled by foreigners . This time I have determined in my heart to undertake to follow out my mas- ter's will . Though , being alto- gether humble ...
... person of low standing , have not patience to stand by and and see the sacred empire defiled by foreigners . This time I have determined in my heart to undertake to follow out my mas- ter's will . Though , being alto- gether humble ...
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Seite 343 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Seite 354 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Seite 425 - English corn and manufactures to Edinburgh, necessarily replaces, by every such operation, TWO British capitals which had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of Great Britain.
Seite 140 - That we hold the right of private judgment in matters of religion, to be equally sacred in others as in ourselves. Resolved therefore, That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman catholic fellow-subjects...
Seite 425 - The capital which is employed in purchasing in one part of the country in order to sell in another the produce of the industry of that country, generally replaces by every such operation two distinct capitals that had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of that country, and thereby enables them to continue that employment.
Seite 149 - My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British empire must be dissolved.
Seite 89 - ... and preciousness of architecture ; and it is not until a building has assumed this character, till it has been entrusted with the fame and hallowed by the deeds of men, till its walls have been witnesses of suffering and its pillars rise out of the...
Seite 254 - People are continually saying that America is in the air, and I am glad to think it is, since this means only that a clearer conception of human claims and human duties is beginning to be prevalent. The discontent with the existing order of things, however, pervaded the atmosphere wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America. I say wherever the conditions were favorable, for it is certain that the...
Seite 343 - Youth! for years so many and sweet, 'Tis known that Thou and I were one, I'll think it but a fond conceit— It cannot be that Thou art gone!
Seite 91 - Jerusalem;" in treating of which, he says, he " so applied the corruption that was then to the corruption that is in the papistry, and Christ's fact to the duty of those to whom God giveth power, and zeal thereto, that as well the magistrates, the provost and bailies, as the commonalty, did agree to remove all monuments of idolatry, which also they did with expedition.