Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 221William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... began to ask me some questions with great volubility . My know- ledge of French was extremely limited , and I could trust my- self with no confidence to any expressions in that language but the word " Oui , " and that I kept on using at ...
... began to ask me some questions with great volubility . My know- ledge of French was extremely limited , and I could trust my- self with no confidence to any expressions in that language but the word " Oui , " and that I kept on using at ...
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... began our excursion . After a nine miles ' walk we arrived at the beach , and saw a boat not far from the shore , so we stripped to our shirts and trousers and swam out to it . It was flat - bottomed , and about 12 feet long . The ...
... began our excursion . After a nine miles ' walk we arrived at the beach , and saw a boat not far from the shore , so we stripped to our shirts and trousers and swam out to it . It was flat - bottomed , and about 12 feet long . The ...
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... began in earnest to bestir themselves into more active demonstrations of kind feeling . One of them got a needle and thread and applied herself on the spot to the rents in my shirt , while another devoted herself in a like manner to ...
... began in earnest to bestir themselves into more active demonstrations of kind feeling . One of them got a needle and thread and applied herself on the spot to the rents in my shirt , while another devoted herself in a like manner to ...
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... began to fail in my strength , and finally was obliged to declare to Whitehurst that vermin or no vermin I must lie down , and down I went . I was aroused by Whitehurst after a slight rest . " For good- ness sake , Jackson , " he said ...
... began to fail in my strength , and finally was obliged to declare to Whitehurst that vermin or no vermin I must lie down , and down I went . I was aroused by Whitehurst after a slight rest . " For good- ness sake , Jackson , " he said ...
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... began another weary march . re- We continued thus , marching from prison to prison , until we reached where we - ceived a pleasant surprise at finding ourselves at last in a jail which was the very picture of cleanliness . Our joy met ...
... began another weary march . re- We continued thus , marching from prison to prison , until we reached where we - ceived a pleasant surprise at finding ourselves at last in a jail which was the very picture of cleanliness . Our joy met ...
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Page 398 - gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also ; but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. O! ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus.
Page 684 - there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply are long ago
Page 679 - is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.'
Page 680 - : " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country.
Page 677 - will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues.
Page 681 - had a notion not very peculiar that he could not write but at certain times or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Page 677 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? But the
Page 683 - writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent.
Page 576 - has long lain halfhidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, meeting where he likes, bawling what he likes, breaking what he likes.
Page 568 - The Soviet Government undertakes not to support with funds or in any other form persons or bodies or agencies or institutions whose aim is to spread discontent or to foment rebellion in any part of the British Empire, and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions.