Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 241857 |
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... matter , and but for the discoveries of gold in Australia and California , the laws in question would have been long ... matters , not always sound , but always vivid . do not discuss these matters here , although we believe that our ...
... matter , and but for the discoveries of gold in Australia and California , the laws in question would have been long ... matters , not always sound , but always vivid . do not discuss these matters here , although we believe that our ...
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... matter of eating - if not of drinking ; but , although this is made a subject of reproach against us by our neighbours , the Irish in particular , we cannot gluttony in eating half a pound of beef for dinner than in swallowing seven ...
... matter of eating - if not of drinking ; but , although this is made a subject of reproach against us by our neighbours , the Irish in particular , we cannot gluttony in eating half a pound of beef for dinner than in swallowing seven ...
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... matter ; bread remains at its usual price - therefore , they do not interfere . It is not an Episcopal matter . Episcopal revenues are not derived from burial grounds , therefore , there is little or no Episcopal interference . It is a ...
... matter ; bread remains at its usual price - therefore , they do not interfere . It is not an Episcopal matter . Episcopal revenues are not derived from burial grounds , therefore , there is little or no Episcopal interference . It is a ...
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... matter of fact character , apologises for having an engagement ( his lordship was walking in the " grounds " per- chance , when he came ) , and the " friend and brother " of his lordship , feeling his room is more coveted than his ...
... matter of fact character , apologises for having an engagement ( his lordship was walking in the " grounds " per- chance , when he came ) , and the " friend and brother " of his lordship , feeling his room is more coveted than his ...
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... possibly come from reading . the Bible , and if any young ladies could be found willing to teach the children , they were , in his view of the matter , occupying their time in a most D 50 praiseworthy manner . So the Place was settled .
... possibly come from reading . the Bible , and if any young ladies could be found willing to teach the children , they were , in his view of the matter , occupying their time in a most D 50 praiseworthy manner . So the Place was settled .
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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.