Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 - England |
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... gold into the Pole's hand . The Pole's bosom heaved with manly emotion : " These pieces bear the effigies of the tyrant -I accept them as redeemed from disgrace by their uses to Free- dom . " " Share them with Signor Raselli in the name ...
... gold into the Pole's hand . The Pole's bosom heaved with manly emotion : " These pieces bear the effigies of the tyrant -I accept them as redeemed from disgrace by their uses to Free- dom . " " Share them with Signor Raselli in the name ...
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... gold- en egg . I find , however , no such fear prevailing here . In order to avoid killing the mothers , while still pregnant , or before the young are old enough to live without them , the date of departure for the fishing has been put ...
... gold- en egg . I find , however , no such fear prevailing here . In order to avoid killing the mothers , while still pregnant , or before the young are old enough to live without them , the date of departure for the fishing has been put ...
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... gold at the south - west corner of the island , on the Cod Roy rivers . Mr Murray describes a vast exposure of gyp- sum , where it may be quarried to any extent . " I have myself seen rich specimens of galena brought from Port - au ...
... gold at the south - west corner of the island , on the Cod Roy rivers . Mr Murray describes a vast exposure of gyp- sum , where it may be quarried to any extent . " I have myself seen rich specimens of galena brought from Port - au ...
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... gold and its movements , from the miserable 3 parts which are the small change of the banking com- munity , and direct them to the 97 which are not money in any form , but consist of commodities , of ricks , and of all kinds of wealth ...
... gold and its movements , from the miserable 3 parts which are the small change of the banking com- munity , and direct them to the 97 which are not money in any form , but consist of commodities , of ricks , and of all kinds of wealth ...
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... gold from the miners with the wealth of Eng- land is , to the extent of reserves actually wanted and at work , a beneficial expense , because the advantages of banking furnish ade- quate compensation ; the gold stored up is not wasted ...
... gold from the miners with the wealth of Eng- land is , to the extent of reserves actually wanted and at work , a beneficial expense , because the advantages of banking furnish ade- quate compensation ; the gold stored up is not wasted ...
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Page 604 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 261 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 604 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Page 273 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Page 604 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 347 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 75 - Even be it so ; yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet, And part far from them : sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes, He is a slave; the meanest we can meet!
Page 604 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Page 80 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable: I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 359 - The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.