The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, Volumen1William Blackwood, 1817 |
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... took up his residence in London , with the view of preparing himself for the English bar . In 1806 , he was appointed by the East India Company one of the commissioners for the liquidation of the debts of the Nabob of Arcot ; but ...
... took up his residence in London , with the view of preparing himself for the English bar . In 1806 , he was appointed by the East India Company one of the commissioners for the liquidation of the debts of the Nabob of Arcot ; but ...
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... took little root , and never reached above the secondary rank of excellence . Among those commercial states again , which were governed by kings , and yet more con- stantly among those which were go verned by a democracy , they attain ...
... took little root , and never reached above the secondary rank of excellence . Among those commercial states again , which were governed by kings , and yet more con- stantly among those which were go verned by a democracy , they attain ...
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... took him neatly through the gills , though he gaed as fast as a skell - drake . " But the sport grew aye better.- Geordie was sac mad at Mathew for taigling him , an ' garring him tine the fish ( for he's a greedy dirt ) , that they had ...
... took him neatly through the gills , though he gaed as fast as a skell - drake . " But the sport grew aye better.- Geordie was sac mad at Mathew for taigling him , an ' garring him tine the fish ( for he's a greedy dirt ) , that they had ...
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... took up a little man about twenty , one of the most free and easy persons I have ever met with . He introduced himself to us in a moment , and gave us all the infor- mation we wanted ; indeed , much more than my companion S seemed to ...
... took up a little man about twenty , one of the most free and easy persons I have ever met with . He introduced himself to us in a moment , and gave us all the infor- mation we wanted ; indeed , much more than my companion S seemed to ...
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... took from her hair a small comb , which , lying concealed , had caused the manifestation . Dr Spurzheim arrived in Edinburgh soon after the commencement of the last summer session at this university , He gave several demonstrations of a ...
... took from her hair a small comb , which , lying concealed , had caused the manifestation . Dr Spurzheim arrived in Edinburgh soon after the commencement of the last summer session at this university , He gave several demonstrations of a ...
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Página 285 - Syria's thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed Of flowers where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th...
Página 345 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found. And the world's victor stood subdued by sound!
Página 295 - Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old,— The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 271 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 393 - That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Página 284 - PARADISE AND THE PERI. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate : And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place !
Página 292 - And you, ye Crags, upon whose extreme edge I stand, and on the torrent's brink beneath Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs In dizziness of distance ; when a leap, A stir, a motion, even a breath, would bring My breast upon its rocky bosom's bed To rest for ever...
Página 278 - With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 278 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página 278 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.