Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 78W. Blackwood & Sons, 1855 |
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Page 26
... fortified . A good idea - I am glad it occurred to me- a beautiful experiment ! I'll have it in universal use before a year is out . " " Put iron caps on their heads , Mr. Cumberland 26 [ July , › Zaidee : a Romance . - Part VIII .
... fortified . A good idea - I am glad it occurred to me- a beautiful experiment ! I'll have it in universal use before a year is out . " " Put iron caps on their heads , Mr. Cumberland 26 [ July , › Zaidee : a Romance . - Part VIII .
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... beautiful house in the world . We must have no more pale faces , Lina , " said the Rev. John , patting the poor cheek , washed by so many tears , with his great kind finger . " We can afford a little chaise of our own now , to drive you ...
... beautiful house in the world . We must have no more pale faces , Lina , " said the Rev. John , patting the poor cheek , washed by so many tears , with his great kind finger . " We can afford a little chaise of our own now , to drive you ...
Page 38
... beautiful young matron , doing all her duties with the simplicity which gives an almost royal dignity to her beauty , and Captain Bernard's dark face glows with the sober certainty of his great happiness . The Grange looks thankfully ...
... beautiful young matron , doing all her duties with the simplicity which gives an almost royal dignity to her beauty , and Captain Bernard's dark face glows with the sober certainty of his great happiness . The Grange looks thankfully ...
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... beautiful history of a mother with trust in her heart , which nothing can put aside , that her son will one day make a figure in the world . The aspect of fortune is frowning enough to all but her . She will have him to be a scholar ...
... beautiful history of a mother with trust in her heart , which nothing can put aside , that her son will one day make a figure in the world . The aspect of fortune is frowning enough to all but her . She will have him to be a scholar ...
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... beautiful gate of Paradise to the dreary world and its probation , -these have no place in the concise volume wherein Mr. Maurice traces the after history of their descendants . In this book the curtain rises abruptly upon the sons of ...
... beautiful gate of Paradise to the dreary world and its probation , -these have no place in the concise volume wherein Mr. Maurice traces the after history of their descendants . In this book the curtain rises abruptly upon the sons of ...
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Page 198 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 547 - For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Page 304 - He sets the jewel-print of your feet In violets blue as your eyes, To the woody hollows in which we meet And the valleys of Paradise.
Page 555 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Page 304 - There is but one With whom she has heart to be gay. When will the dancers leave her alone? She is weary of dance and play." Now half to the setting moon are gone, And half to the rising day; Low on the sand and loud on the stone The last wheel echoes away.
Page 62 - Whilst I was preparing for my journey, and when I was almost fatigued to death with several long examinations, relating to five different murders, all committed within the space of a week, by different gangs of street-robbers, I received a message from his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Mr.
Page 77 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 197 - So that, upon the whole, the only adequate definition of felony seems to be that which is before laid down, viz., an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be superadded, according to the degree of guilt.
Page 308 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be, granted by the United States to the State for the support of a university, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called "The University Fund...
Page 59 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.