Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen77W. Blackwood, 1855 |
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... Never were there so many on the list . The more there are killed , the more there are to take their places ; while the dreadful hardships suffered by officers bred in the lap of luxury and ease , evi- 6 [ Jan. The Conduct of the War .
... Never were there so many on the list . The more there are killed , the more there are to take their places ; while the dreadful hardships suffered by officers bred in the lap of luxury and ease , evi- 6 [ Jan. The Conduct of the War .
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... officer declared in dying , that we were betrayed by a deserter from the foreign legion . This man , it is said , informed ... officers ; they were thus presented in the best possible form that foreigners could assume in another nation's ...
... officer declared in dying , that we were betrayed by a deserter from the foreign legion . This man , it is said , informed ... officers ; they were thus presented in the best possible form that foreigners could assume in another nation's ...
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... officers and official annual inquisitor , when he next comes , sure of booking you as defunct , as Madam B. did her heir - a sprightly old lass in her hundredth year . She rang her bell violently at one in the morning , and when the ...
... officers and official annual inquisitor , when he next comes , sure of booking you as defunct , as Madam B. did her heir - a sprightly old lass in her hundredth year . She rang her bell violently at one in the morning , and when the ...
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... officer for me than you , mother . She knows every volume in the library by headmark , I suppose . I'll set her to copying something for me there . " " But Zaidee writes so badly - it's quite disgraceful , " said Margaret . " I am sure ...
... officer for me than you , mother . She knows every volume in the library by headmark , I suppose . I'll set her to copying something for me there . " " But Zaidee writes so badly - it's quite disgraceful , " said Margaret . " I am sure ...
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... officers , it seems , from notions of self- preservation , have adopted a garb nearly approaching to that of their Friends of the Peace Society ; and I expect that ere long the English and French will have to do the same , - under ...
... officers , it seems , from notions of self- preservation , have adopted a garb nearly approaching to that of their Friends of the Peace Society ; and I expect that ere long the English and French will have to do the same , - under ...
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Página 37 - My duty towards my neighbour is, to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me...
Página 225 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Página 252 - His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd...
Página 212 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down : revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindu, Pathan, Moghul, Mahratta, Sikh, English are masters in turn ; but the village communities remain the same...
Página 109 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Página 314 - I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. — O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Página 212 - English, are all masters in turn, but the village communities remain the same. In times of trouble they arm and fortify themselves : a hostile army passes through the country : the village communities collect their cattle within their walls and let the enemy pass unprovoked.
Página 313 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Página 261 - OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.