Macmillan's Magazine, 9. köideMacmillan and Company, 1864 |
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Page 81
... Government bills had slid easily through . There had been a little hitch on the new Scab Bill ; several members with infected runs opposing it lustily ; threatening to murder it by inches in committee , and so on : but , on the ...
... Government bills had slid easily through . There had been a little hitch on the new Scab Bill ; several members with infected runs opposing it lustily ; threatening to murder it by inches in committee , and so on : but , on the ...
Page 82
... Government place he does not go . " " My dear James 12 " It is no use , Agnes ; it is really no use . I have been accused in the public papers of placing too many of my own and my wife's family . I have been taunted with it in the House ...
... Government place he does not go . " " My dear James 12 " It is no use , Agnes ; it is really no use . I have been accused in the public papers of placing too many of my own and my wife's family . I have been taunted with it in the House ...
Page 98
... Government . The soil is fertile , and intersected by numerous streams , which , fed by the eternal snows of the main chain , afford a more certain supply of water than the great rivers that flow into the Ganges from the South . 18 ...
... Government . The soil is fertile , and intersected by numerous streams , which , fed by the eternal snows of the main chain , afford a more certain supply of water than the great rivers that flow into the Ganges from the South . 18 ...
Page 101
... Government officers some- times brought a ryot's elbows behind his back , passed a lattee under them , hung him by his heels to a tree , and settled him there permanently , unless his quota was forthcoming ; but they had never heard of ...
... Government officers some- times brought a ryot's elbows behind his back , passed a lattee under them , hung him by his heels to a tree , and settled him there permanently , unless his quota was forthcoming ; but they had never heard of ...
Page 103
... Government will have made an uncommonly bad bargain , as I shall have continued to draw my pension for half a century ) , I shall never forget that first morning in the wilderness . I saun- tered out of the tent , after a long cool ...
... Government will have made an uncommonly bad bargain , as I shall have continued to draw my pension for half a century ) , I shall never forget that first morning in the wilderness . I saun- tered out of the tent , after a long cool ...
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Page 263 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 239 - Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife : While he could stammer He settled Hoti's business— let it be ! — Properly based Oun — Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De, Dead from the waist down.
Page 467 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words, and no other : IV. " I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the book, intituled,
Page 520 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian ; and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 368 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree.
Page 367 - For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.
Page 367 - We are puppets, Man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower ; Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game That pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed ? Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour ; We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame ; However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.
Page 272 - I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.
Page 355 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 143 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.