Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Bind 65William Blackwood, 1849 |
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Side 18
... ture the dissolution of the Assembly , and reappearance of the king in the capital : Milan restored to the sway of the Austrians : France seeking , in the quasi imperial crown of Prince Louis Napoleon , with 90,000 soldiers in its ...
... ture the dissolution of the Assembly , and reappearance of the king in the capital : Milan restored to the sway of the Austrians : France seeking , in the quasi imperial crown of Prince Louis Napoleon , with 90,000 soldiers in its ...
Side 31
... ture . Here , if anywhere , free - trade might be introduced with advantage ; in common necessaries at any rate , and for a few years , till the country became peopled , and the colonists had overcome the first difficulties of their ...
... ture . Here , if anywhere , free - trade might be introduced with advantage ; in common necessaries at any rate , and for a few years , till the country became peopled , and the colonists had overcome the first difficulties of their ...
Side 63
... ture , which even archaic Evelyn princes , have adventurous English- thought and called " barbarous , " their men been found to delight in rambling , chivalrous customs , religious observ- like Inglis , in the footsteps of Don ances ...
... ture , which even archaic Evelyn princes , have adventurous English- thought and called " barbarous , " their men been found to delight in rambling , chivalrous customs , religious observ- like Inglis , in the footsteps of Don ances ...
Side 80
... ture age at which he ascended the throne , and the troublous character of his reign , explain why art received but slight countenance from the court of the frank and noble - hearted Sailor Prince ; but we turn with hope to the future ...
... ture age at which he ascended the throne , and the troublous character of his reign , explain why art received but slight countenance from the court of the frank and noble - hearted Sailor Prince ; but we turn with hope to the future ...
Side 81
... ture , with a huge curved bill , a short ish neck , scarcely any wings , a plumy tuft upon the back - considerably on the off - side , though pretending to be a tail , —and a very shapeless body , extraordinarily large and round about ...
... ture , with a huge curved bill , a short ish neck , scarcely any wings , a plumy tuft upon the back - considerably on the off - side , though pretending to be a tail , —and a very shapeless body , extraordinarily large and round about ...
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Side 382 - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:" and Mr Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers.
Side 81 - He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
Side 201 - And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Side 385 - ... were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction...
Side 25 - And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite : let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity : slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women : but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.
Side 385 - Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Side 385 - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
Side 385 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow.
Side 198 - And did not he make one ? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one ? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Side 5 - All around us the world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Governments which lately seemed likely to stand during ages have been on a sudden shaken and overthrown. The proudest capitals of Western Europe have streamed with civil blood.