Blackwood's Magazine, Band 103W. Blackwood, 1868 |
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... able article of food ; the root , which is exceedingly nutritious , is like a small yam , but better flavour- ed ; the young leaves are also eaten , cooked with the pulp of cocoa - nuts , and make an excellent vegetable , not unlike ...
... able article of food ; the root , which is exceedingly nutritious , is like a small yam , but better flavour- ed ; the young leaves are also eaten , cooked with the pulp of cocoa - nuts , and make an excellent vegetable , not unlike ...
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... able precision , being excellent tim- ists , but the purpose of which was quite unintelligible , and an Alder- shott drill - sergeant's hair would have stood on end with astonish- ment at the display . But the most ludicrous part of the ...
... able precision , being excellent tim- ists , but the purpose of which was quite unintelligible , and an Alder- shott drill - sergeant's hair would have stood on end with astonish- ment at the display . But the most ludicrous part of the ...
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too tight for them , of every conceiv- able pattern and description . Some had red coats , some blue , others a gay fancy uniform made specially for trading in the islands ; one wore the old discarded regimentals of a sergeant of ...
too tight for them , of every conceiv- able pattern and description . Some had red coats , some blue , others a gay fancy uniform made specially for trading in the islands ; one wore the old discarded regimentals of a sergeant of ...
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... able to grapple with difficulties of no ordinary nature . The natives of the New Hebrides , with the sole exception of Aneiteum , are cannibals to this day ; they are low in physical and mental development , cruel , superstitious , and ...
... able to grapple with difficulties of no ordinary nature . The natives of the New Hebrides , with the sole exception of Aneiteum , are cannibals to this day ; they are low in physical and mental development , cruel , superstitious , and ...
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... able , but it was utterly repugnant , even though one of them thus urged it , to both . A thing may be recommended by good sense , and by all the force of personal inte- rest , and yet may be more detest- able than if it was alike ...
... able , but it was utterly repugnant , even though one of them thus urged it , to both . A thing may be recommended by good sense , and by all the force of personal inte- rest , and yet may be more detest- able than if it was alike ...
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Seite 485 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Seite 42 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Seite 568 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Seite 266 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Seite 551 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?
Seite 635 - Stand and hold fast, from henceforth, the place to which you have been heir by the succession of your forefathers, being now delivered to you by the authority of Almighty God, and by the hands of us and all the bishops and servants of God.
Seite 519 - I quoted Martial; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense; that the classics contained everything that was either necessary, useful, or ornamental to men; and I was not without thoughts of wearing the toga virilis of the Romans, instead of the vulgar .and illiberal dress of the moderns.
Seite 458 - gainst treason's might, This hand hath always striven, And ye raise it up for a witness still In the eye of earth and heaven. Then nail my head on yonder tower — Give every town a limb — And God who made shall gather them : I go from you to Him...
Seite 457 - Then the Provost he uprose, And his lip was ashen white, But a flush was on his brow, And his eye was full of light. " Thou hast spoken, Randolph Murray, Like a soldier stout and true ; Thou hast done a deed of daring Had been perilled but by few. For thou hast not shamed to face us, Nor to speak thy ghastly tale, Standing...
Seite 477 - These savages, who want all manner of regard and deference to the rest of mankind, come only to show themselves to us, without any other purpose than to let us know they despise us. The gross of an audience is composed of two sorts of people, those who know no pleasure but of the body, and those who improve or command corporeal pleasures by the addition of fine sentiments of the mind.