Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 141W. Blackwood & Sons, 1886 - Scotland |
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... hope . " But nobody took the least trouble to hear what I had to say for myself . The last speaker struck me on the mouth , and called me an accursed fool for talking of what I did not under- stand ; and finally they all swept on and ...
... hope . " But nobody took the least trouble to hear what I had to say for myself . The last speaker struck me on the mouth , and called me an accursed fool for talking of what I did not under- stand ; and finally they all swept on and ...
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... hope . I looked back as if upon a nightmare on the dreadful city which I had left , on its tumults and noise , the ... hope ? I will not say that I believed even what I tried to think . Some- thing in me lay like a dark sha- dow in the ...
... hope . I looked back as if upon a nightmare on the dreadful city which I had left , on its tumults and noise , the ... hope ? I will not say that I believed even what I tried to think . Some- thing in me lay like a dark sha- dow in the ...
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... hope I may never feel such a sen- sation again . The pitiless light went into me like a knife ; but even my cries were stopped by the framework in which I was bound . I could breathe and suf- fer , but that was all . Then some one got ...
... hope I may never feel such a sen- sation again . The pitiless light went into me like a knife ; but even my cries were stopped by the framework in which I was bound . I could breathe and suf- fer , but that was all . Then some one got ...
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... hope . It might be but a dream : in this strange world who could tell what was vision and what was true ? The next thing I remember was , that I found myself lying on the floor of a great room full of people , with every kind of disease ...
... hope . It might be but a dream : in this strange world who could tell what was vision and what was true ? The next thing I remember was , that I found myself lying on the floor of a great room full of people , with every kind of disease ...
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... Hope sprang up in my mind - the hope that where he was so eager to go there would be something better , a life more live- able than in this place . In every new place there is new hope . I was not worn out of that human impulse . I ...
... Hope sprang up in my mind - the hope that where he was so eager to go there would be something better , a life more live- able than in this place . In every new place there is new hope . I was not worn out of that human impulse . I ...
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Page 343 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 354 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Page 425 - English corn and manufactures to Edinburgh, necessarily replaces, by every such operation, TWO British capitals which had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of Great Britain.
Page 140 - That we hold the right of private judgment in matters of religion, to be equally sacred in others as in ourselves. Resolved therefore, That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman catholic fellow-subjects...
Page 425 - The capital which is employed in purchasing in one part of the country in order to sell in another the produce of the industry of that country, generally replaces by every such operation two distinct capitals that had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of that country, and thereby enables them to continue that employment.
Page 149 - My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British empire must be dissolved.
Page 89 - ... and preciousness of architecture ; and it is not until a building has assumed this character, till it has been entrusted with the fame and hallowed by the deeds of men, till its walls have been witnesses of suffering and its pillars rise out of the...
Page 254 - People are continually saying that America is in the air, and I am glad to think it is, since this means only that a clearer conception of human claims and human duties is beginning to be prevalent. The discontent with the existing order of things, however, pervaded the atmosphere wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America. I say wherever the conditions were favorable, for it is certain that the...
Page 343 - Youth! for years so many and sweet, 'Tis known that Thou and I were one, I'll think it but a fond conceit— It cannot be that Thou art gone!
Page 91 - Jerusalem;" in treating of which, he says, he " so applied the corruption that was then to the corruption that is in the papistry, and Christ's fact to the duty of those to whom God giveth power, and zeal thereto, that as well the magistrates, the provost and bailies, as the commonalty, did agree to remove all monuments of idolatry, which also they did with expedition.