Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 241857 |
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... thousand young firs for the consumption in Christmas trees by the metropolitans , and fifteen thousand pounds as the sumed . They will live in little plots of ground in back courts or suburban gardens for years to come , perhaps . The ...
... thousand young firs for the consumption in Christmas trees by the metropolitans , and fifteen thousand pounds as the sumed . They will live in little plots of ground in back courts or suburban gardens for years to come , perhaps . The ...
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... thousand chapters in its history that would furnish admirable material for lectures . But they should be full of ... thousands . They were all apprentices , young artisans , labourers , aud females . The roof is villainously low , and ...
... thousand chapters in its history that would furnish admirable material for lectures . But they should be full of ... thousands . They were all apprentices , young artisans , labourers , aud females . The roof is villainously low , and ...
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... thousand mercenary women who only smile beneath the gas , " as Mrs. Browning says ? Let us be just . In Rome , an outrage to one maiden was enough to overthrow a dynasty ; and people go by thousands , to this day , to see enacted over ...
... thousand mercenary women who only smile beneath the gas , " as Mrs. Browning says ? Let us be just . In Rome , an outrage to one maiden was enough to overthrow a dynasty ; and people go by thousands , to this day , to see enacted over ...
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... thousand years this was nearly all that plants . The geological structure of the earth , the nature and properties of soils , and the chemical incognita as was the continent of America before composition of plants , were as much a terra ...
... thousand years this was nearly all that plants . The geological structure of the earth , the nature and properties of soils , and the chemical incognita as was the continent of America before composition of plants , were as much a terra ...
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... thousand charms for me ; The frost is passing lovely in the morn , When every twig doth yield A crop of glistening pearls . Yon stately thorn , stands , lavish of her gems , Robed like a maiden on her bridal day ; Like a rich carpet ...
... thousand charms for me ; The frost is passing lovely in the morn , When every twig doth yield A crop of glistening pearls . Yon stately thorn , stands , lavish of her gems , Robed like a maiden on her bridal day ; Like a rich carpet ...
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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.