The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Band 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... vice versa , then will I believe that Aggie Dinwoodie's awa wi ' the fairies ; but the thing's impossible , and therefore canna be done . De- pend on't , the lassic was gripped by kirsen'd fingers . Deil a bit o ' me can believe , after ...
... vice versa , then will I believe that Aggie Dinwoodie's awa wi ' the fairies ; but the thing's impossible , and therefore canna be done . De- pend on't , the lassic was gripped by kirsen'd fingers . Deil a bit o ' me can believe , after ...
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... Vice but breathes on , and its hues are dead ; Shall , at the call , press forward , to be made A glorious offering , meet for Him who said , " Mercy , not sacrifice ! " And when , of old , Clouds of rich incense from his altars roll'd ...
... Vice but breathes on , and its hues are dead ; Shall , at the call , press forward , to be made A glorious offering , meet for Him who said , " Mercy , not sacrifice ! " And when , of old , Clouds of rich incense from his altars roll'd ...
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... vice , un- less he is one of those moody spirits of whom there are some examples among us , who are at war with them- selves as well as with the world , —a temper which , in some instances , is combined with powerful talents , cal ...
... vice , un- less he is one of those moody spirits of whom there are some examples among us , who are at war with them- selves as well as with the world , —a temper which , in some instances , is combined with powerful talents , cal ...
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... vice of his friends , till he should hear the fate of Sir Alexander ; and when he was constrained to do so , he ordered a message to be left in the proper place , stating that he would appear at his trial when a day should be appointed ...
... vice of his friends , till he should hear the fate of Sir Alexander ; and when he was constrained to do so , he ordered a message to be left in the proper place , stating that he would appear at his trial when a day should be appointed ...
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... vice Nicholson , ret . 19 April . Cornet & Sub - Lieut . Hort . Lieut . by purch . vice Marten 4 May . J. P. Macqueen , Cornet & Sub - Lieut . by purch . vice Bulkeley 19 April . Ens . Smith , from h . p . 69 F. Cornet & Sub - Lieut ...
... vice Nicholson , ret . 19 April . Cornet & Sub - Lieut . Hort . Lieut . by purch . vice Marten 4 May . J. P. Macqueen , Cornet & Sub - Lieut . by purch . vice Bulkeley 19 April . Ens . Smith , from h . p . 69 F. Cornet & Sub - Lieut ...
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Seite 438 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Seite 438 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the Lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Seite 84 - There is something nobly simple and pure in such a taste : it argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of husbandry.
Seite 43 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 557 - How grew upon his heart a thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts ; and for the rest, but glance Thine eye along America and France.
Seite 194 - Day presses on the heels of day, And moons increase to their decay ; But you, with thoughtless pride elate, Unconscious of impending fate, Command the pillar'd dome to rise, When lo ! thy tomb forgotten lies.
Seite 371 - I continue to receive from foreign powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country ; and I have the satisfaction of believing, that the differences which had unfortunately arisen between the court of St.
Seite 140 - It was the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky and clouds of flame, mountains of red rolling flame, like immense waves of the sea, alternately bursting forth and elevating themselves to skies of fire, and then sinking into the ocean of flame below. ' Oh ! it was the most grand, the most sublime, and the most terrific sight the world ever beheld.
Seite 110 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 21s. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening: comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Seite 65 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.