Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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Page 11
... carried by Eduardo ( his follower ) ; and I promise you , that in a year the hides of 50,000 bullocks , and 100,000 ... carry on South American business with new spirit and new means , when the wide - spread ruin of 1826 involved him ...
... carried by Eduardo ( his follower ) ; and I promise you , that in a year the hides of 50,000 bullocks , and 100,000 ... carry on South American business with new spirit and new means , when the wide - spread ruin of 1826 involved him ...
Page 12
... carried before the brutal Artigas , who was about to in the wake of the conquerors , who were his particular shoot ... carrying on the business of which he was the head . He and his brother not only repeatedly rode along great part of ...
... carried before the brutal Artigas , who was about to in the wake of the conquerors , who were his particular shoot ... carrying on the business of which he was the head . He and his brother not only repeatedly rode along great part of ...
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... carried neither carbine nor sword , and the only weapon he had was a Catalonian knife stuck in his belt . Everything ... carrying away , but I begged them not to put themselves to so much trouble , and thus secured my- self a change on ...
... carried neither carbine nor sword , and the only weapon he had was a Catalonian knife stuck in his belt . Everything ... carrying away , but I begged them not to put themselves to so much trouble , and thus secured my- self a change on ...
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... carried off from this reservoir and the reservoirs at level , or it may be carried straight forward through the city by evaporation , we have still a supply of water hills and across valleys . The ancient aqueducts of Rome which would ...
... carried off from this reservoir and the reservoirs at level , or it may be carried straight forward through the city by evaporation , we have still a supply of water hills and across valleys . The ancient aqueducts of Rome which would ...
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... carried to the point of blasphemy . He , as well as the Chinese emperor , claims a near relationship to the sun and moon . He declares himself to be , moreover , the disposer of crowns , ' although during the present century he has had ...
... carried to the point of blasphemy . He , as well as the Chinese emperor , claims a near relationship to the sun and moon . He declares himself to be , moreover , the disposer of crowns , ' although during the present century he has had ...
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Page 222 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 47 - Work ! work ! work ! from weary chime to chime ; work ! work ! work ! as prisoners work for crime. Band, and gusset, and seam ; seam, and gusset, and band ; till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, as well as the weary hand.
Page 47 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Page 222 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 47 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 217 - Remains," it is remarked, that "there is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Page 254 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 204 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 82 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 47 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!