Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 241857 |
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... leave it unredressed - assert that their children could not read , but find no means of teaching them -confess the need of superior education , but allow the vacancy to remain ; and discuss for years the superiority of flour ground by ...
... leave it unredressed - assert that their children could not read , but find no means of teaching them -confess the need of superior education , but allow the vacancy to remain ; and discuss for years the superiority of flour ground by ...
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... leave for England , sometime in 1794. In this visit he wrought hard to secure those advantages to the Indian officers - not quite equivalent to justice which were then conceded to them . He arrived in England in July , 1794 , and he was ...
... leave for England , sometime in 1794. In this visit he wrought hard to secure those advantages to the Indian officers - not quite equivalent to justice which were then conceded to them . He arrived in England in July , 1794 , and he was ...
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... leaves , over damp , misty meadows , startling the snipe away on whirring wing at every step I took ; or on the long ... leave this weary world , come , hand in hand , departed friends , the fresh , young feelings , the lofty , yet ...
... leaves , over damp , misty meadows , startling the snipe away on whirring wing at every step I took ; or on the long ... leave this weary world , come , hand in hand , departed friends , the fresh , young feelings , the lofty , yet ...
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... leaves , which she plucked long ago for me , withered like my hopes . I will carry these dead leaflets and strew them to - morrow upon her grave . CHAPTER II . Mine eyes dazzle - She died young . I think not so - his infelicity Seemed ...
... leaves , which she plucked long ago for me , withered like my hopes . I will carry these dead leaflets and strew them to - morrow upon her grave . CHAPTER II . Mine eyes dazzle - She died young . I think not so - his infelicity Seemed ...
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... leave me , " said he with a strange , sweet smile , " death will soon relieve friendship of this vigil . It is well , perhaps , that this life - drama is thus soon played out ; it is well , perhaps , that here , in this quiet room ...
... leave me , " said he with a strange , sweet smile , " death will soon relieve friendship of this vigil . It is well , perhaps , that this life - drama is thus soon played out ; it is well , perhaps , that here , in this quiet room ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.