Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 241857 |
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... tion with its competition has brought many benefits , and charged a handsome price for them . One item in the bill is long hours of labour , making it a drudgery instead of an honest pleasure ; and we all require to guard against these ...
... tion with its competition has brought many benefits , and charged a handsome price for them . One item in the bill is long hours of labour , making it a drudgery instead of an honest pleasure ; and we all require to guard against these ...
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... tion do not increase rapidly ; for all the families are not so productive as the second generation of Malcolms in Burnfoot . This Burnfoot was a farm rented by the Earl upon easy terms to the Minis- ter of Ewes . The name and the staple ...
... tion do not increase rapidly ; for all the families are not so productive as the second generation of Malcolms in Burnfoot . This Burnfoot was a farm rented by the Earl upon easy terms to the Minis- ter of Ewes . The name and the staple ...
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... tion of the soil was effected . The extraordinary effects produced by this substance led to an in- vestigation of its components . By analysation it was found to consist of a condensation of the most valuable elements of fertility , and ...
... tion of the soil was effected . The extraordinary effects produced by this substance led to an in- vestigation of its components . By analysation it was found to consist of a condensation of the most valuable elements of fertility , and ...
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... tion , the barren recollection of days when they had a greater share of life's enjoyments within their reach , and an occasional opportunity to " be a man again , " if only for an hour or two . If the social virtues stand little chance ...
... tion , the barren recollection of days when they had a greater share of life's enjoyments within their reach , and an occasional opportunity to " be a man again , " if only for an hour or two . If the social virtues stand little chance ...
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... tion of a soul , even for a very short season , and the longest life is a span , in comparison even to those years that are needed to make this handful of refined earth - more precious by much that cannot be calculated or told , than ...
... tion of a soul , even for a very short season , and the longest life is a span , in comparison even to those years that are needed to make this handful of refined earth - more precious by much that cannot be calculated or told , than ...
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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.