Macmillan's Magazine, 9. köideMacmillan and Company, 1864 |
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Page 85
... perhaps say , Law ! mother did look so beautiful in church this morning ; you never ! " 46 She had a hard time of it with us . The family specialities were health , good humour , and vivacity ; somewhat too much of the last among the ...
... perhaps say , Law ! mother did look so beautiful in church this morning ; you never ! " 46 She had a hard time of it with us . The family specialities were health , good humour , and vivacity ; somewhat too much of the last among the ...
Page 89
... perhaps he had plunged too fiercely into politics , perhaps he had never found a woman who exactly suited him ; but so it was - he had postponed his domestic scheme to his other schemes , until he was two - and - forty , and might have ...
... perhaps he had plunged too fiercely into politics , perhaps he had never found a woman who exactly suited him ; but so it was - he had postponed his domestic scheme to his other schemes , until he was two - and - forty , and might have ...
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... Perhaps men are misled by the delights of a hard run or a successful stalk , and imagine that a bare unadorned narrative will best convey the idea of those de- lights to their readers . But this can hardly be the cause ; for accounts of ...
... Perhaps men are misled by the delights of a hard run or a successful stalk , and imagine that a bare unadorned narrative will best convey the idea of those de- lights to their readers . But this can hardly be the cause ; for accounts of ...
Page 98
... perhaps suffered more in public estimation by villa- nously bad writing than any other branch of the gentle craft . People have been so overdone with howdahs , and bottled beer , and hair - triggers , and hair - breadth escapes , and ...
... perhaps suffered more in public estimation by villa- nously bad writing than any other branch of the gentle craft . People have been so overdone with howdahs , and bottled beer , and hair - triggers , and hair - breadth escapes , and ...
Page 103
... Perhaps this sight of the wilderness reminds them , in a dreamy manner , of a Ceylonese forest , far back in the depths of time , where they wandered , and browzed , and bathed , and loved , and were jilted , and fought ( for their ...
... Perhaps this sight of the wilderness reminds them , in a dreamy manner , of a Ceylonese forest , far back in the depths of time , where they wandered , and browzed , and bathed , and loved , and were jilted , and fought ( for their ...
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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.
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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.