Macmillan's Magazine, 36. köideMacmillan and Company, 1877 |
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... king of the Zulus , perhaps the most powerful chief on the eastern border of the Transvaal Republic , and is able , it is said , to place 20,000 fighting men in the field . The real rights of the border question between the two con ...
... king of the Zulus , perhaps the most powerful chief on the eastern border of the Transvaal Republic , and is able , it is said , to place 20,000 fighting men in the field . The real rights of the border question between the two con ...
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... kings , as a hero other than the god Woden . He seems to me to give us the true first meaning of a gossip , in " Thju , gå - moder . ” The gâ - mother , the village mother , by whom he means the village midwife . The Gâ , or Gau , or ...
... kings , as a hero other than the god Woden . He seems to me to give us the true first meaning of a gossip , in " Thju , gå - moder . ” The gâ - mother , the village mother , by whom he means the village midwife . The Gâ , or Gau , or ...
Page 121
... King Coel's kitchen . But wherever the British settlement was , I cannot bring myself to believe that the site of the colony was other than the site of the present town . It was a site well suited for a military post , fixed on a height ...
... King Coel's kitchen . But wherever the British settlement was , I cannot bring myself to believe that the site of the colony was other than the site of the present town . It was a site well suited for a military post , fixed on a height ...
Page 122
... king dealt with as the bondmen of the stranger . But we are concerned with Boadicea , her wrongs and her vengeance , only as they con- cerned the Colony of Veterans at Camu- lodunum . The tale is told with an Homeric wealth of omen and ...
... king dealt with as the bondmen of the stranger . But we are concerned with Boadicea , her wrongs and her vengeance , only as they con- cerned the Colony of Veterans at Camu- lodunum . The tale is told with an Homeric wealth of omen and ...
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... King Coel , in his fiddlers , and even in his kitchen . Yet I have come too lately from the Illyrian land , my mind is too full both of its past and of its present history , to let me believe that Helen the mother of Constantine was the ...
... King Coel , in his fiddlers , and even in his kitchen . Yet I have come too lately from the Illyrian land , my mind is too full both of its past and of its present history , to let me believe that Helen the mother of Constantine was the ...
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Page 380 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 295 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 4 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 296 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 296 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 216 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire.
Page 493 - M'ôter, pour faire bien, du grenier de céans Cette longue lunette à faire peur aux gens, Et cent brimborions dont l'aspect importune; Ne point aller chercher ce qu'on fait dans la lune, Et vous mêler un peu de ce qu'on fait chez vous, Où nous voyons aller tout sens dessus dessous.
Page 493 - Saturne, et Mars, dont je n'ai point affaire; Et dans ce vain savoir, qu'on va chercher si loin, On ne sait comme va mon pot, dont j'ai besoin. Mes gens à la science aspirent pour vous plaire , Et tous ne font rien moins que ce qu'ils ont à faire; Raisonner est l'emploi de toute ma maison; Et le raisonnement en bannit la raison.
Page 4 - Christian charity's sake, to admonish us of the same in writing ; and we, upon our honour and fidelity, do promise unto him satisfaction from the mouth of God, that is, from his holy scriptures, or else reformation of that which he shall prove to be amiss.
Page 375 - But see, his face is black and full of blood, His eye-balls further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man; His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued...