Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 221William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... boat . " For our train ran in connection with the mail steamer , which would sail im- mediately after receiving the passengers and mails . The next boat would leave that day week . There was something hor- ribly familiar about the whole ...
... boat . " For our train ran in connection with the mail steamer , which would sail im- mediately after receiving the passengers and mails . The next boat would leave that day week . There was something hor- ribly familiar about the whole ...
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... boat , I observed a slight shivering amongst Barshott's purple and mauve stripes , and felt chilly myself . We shivered and dozed till dawn , and then dozed without shivering till , late in the following afternoon , we passed into the ...
... boat , I observed a slight shivering amongst Barshott's purple and mauve stripes , and felt chilly myself . We shivered and dozed till dawn , and then dozed without shivering till , late in the following afternoon , we passed into the ...
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... boat . To try and conduct this tangled affair by corre- spondence would mean several weeks ' delay . So far our bitter musings had proceeded , when that angel of a subordinate murmured- " But the post hasn't gone yet . The letters are ...
... boat . To try and conduct this tangled affair by corre- spondence would mean several weeks ' delay . So far our bitter musings had proceeded , when that angel of a subordinate murmured- " But the post hasn't gone yet . The letters are ...
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... boat gave us the clean knock - out , and sent us staggering to the ropes , where metaphorically we fell and lay awaiting the count out . The next steamer was booked right up , said the clerk , had been for several weeks - not a berth to ...
... boat gave us the clean knock - out , and sent us staggering to the ropes , where metaphorically we fell and lay awaiting the count out . The next steamer was booked right up , said the clerk , had been for several weeks - not a berth to ...
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... boat required certain repairs . Just before pushing off I ob- tained twenty disused anchors of different sizes from the Royal Naval engineer officer in charge of the miniature dock- yard at Omdurman , which were lying about on the ...
... boat required certain repairs . Just before pushing off I ob- tained twenty disused anchors of different sizes from the Royal Naval engineer officer in charge of the miniature dock- yard at Omdurman , which were lying about on the ...
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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.