Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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Page 12
... kind . While acres within twenty miles of Buenos Ayres , and intro- still a youth , he had had many long journeys on horse - duced on it a colony of Scottish agriculturists , with all back across the Pampas and the Cordilleras , and in ...
... kind . While acres within twenty miles of Buenos Ayres , and intro- still a youth , he had had many long journeys on horse - duced on it a colony of Scottish agriculturists , with all back across the Pampas and the Cordilleras , and in ...
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... kind friends had rendered our short stay agreeable . We had interchanged thoughts with one who looks cheeringly on man's social advancement , whose mind is not bounded by the mean or trivial circumstances which surround it , but looks ...
... kind friends had rendered our short stay agreeable . We had interchanged thoughts with one who looks cheeringly on man's social advancement , whose mind is not bounded by the mean or trivial circumstances which surround it , but looks ...
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... kind , that it should not be unmixed Latin and Greek , but should include such elements as shall enable the new generation to enter life not quite ignorant of the laws of nature , and more particularly of those things which concern each ...
... kind , that it should not be unmixed Latin and Greek , but should include such elements as shall enable the new generation to enter life not quite ignorant of the laws of nature , and more particularly of those things which concern each ...
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... kind . There is , in the first place , a prejudice against the general idea of the useful , as if it were something naturally in hostility to all that decorates and refines life , and would exclusively direct attention to what is gross ...
... kind . There is , in the first place , a prejudice against the general idea of the useful , as if it were something naturally in hostility to all that decorates and refines life , and would exclusively direct attention to what is gross ...
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... kind which has been erected during the last hundred years . It may not be uninteresting , therefore , to present the reader with a brief sketch of their water - works ; in particular , of the aqueducts which were more exclusively ...
... kind which has been erected during the last hundred years . It may not be uninteresting , therefore , to present the reader with a brief sketch of their water - works ; in particular , of the aqueducts which were more exclusively ...
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Amen Corner amongst ancient animals appear aqueduct attention beautiful better birds called Carlists Carmela cause CHAMBERS'S CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL character Charlotte Corday circumstances course Croton Aqueduct death door duty Edinburgh effect England English evil eyes favour feel feet France French friends Gascon gentleman give guano Guillotin habits hand happy heard heart honour hour husband idea kind labour lady land live London look Madame de Staël manner matter means ment miles mind morning nature Nawata nearly neighbours never night observed party passed perhaps persons poor possessed present racter remarkable replied respect returned ROBERT CHAMBERS Robert d'Arbrissel scene Scotland seemed seen society St Malo taste things thought tion took town tree whole wife WILLIAM SOMERVILLE wish words young
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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!