Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 73William Blackwood, 1853 - England |
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... appear at present the best adapted to each of its several parts : - Broad - leaved forests . Rice Sugar Pine forests . and and Sandy barrens and cotton . tobacco . boggy swamps . Coloured labour . Little cultivation . Dry chalk downs ...
... appear at present the best adapted to each of its several parts : - Broad - leaved forests . Rice Sugar Pine forests . and and Sandy barrens and cotton . tobacco . boggy swamps . Coloured labour . Little cultivation . Dry chalk downs ...
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... appear by a glance at the following table , which exhibits the number of slaves in each of the several groups of states at the equal successive periods , 1790 , 1820 , and 1850 : - Maine , North Hampshire , Vermont , Massa- chusetts ...
... appear by a glance at the following table , which exhibits the number of slaves in each of the several groups of states at the equal successive periods , 1790 , 1820 , and 1850 : - Maine , North Hampshire , Vermont , Massa- chusetts ...
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... appear to be the inclinations of the majority of the con- stituents , in order to obtain what is , after all , a doubtful chance of return- ing Mr Egerton in my room ? " didates should be present ; and you , Baron Levy. " I do not call ...
... appear to be the inclinations of the majority of the con- stituents , in order to obtain what is , after all , a doubtful chance of return- ing Mr Egerton in my room ? " didates should be present ; and you , Baron Levy. " I do not call ...
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... appear be- fore you at this moment , the services of more than twenty years plead for him in his stead . Which , then , of the two candidates do you choose as your member - a renowned statesman , or a beardless boy ? Both have ambi ...
... appear be- fore you at this moment , the services of more than twenty years plead for him in his stead . Which , then , of the two candidates do you choose as your member - a renowned statesman , or a beardless boy ? Both have ambi ...
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of the householder . No sooner did Dick , hat in hand , appear on this rostrum , than the two processions halted below , bands ceased , flags drooped round their staves , crowds rushed within hearing , and even the poll - clerks sprang ...
of the householder . No sooner did Dick , hat in hand , appear on this rostrum , than the two processions halted below , bands ceased , flags drooped round their staves , crowds rushed within hearing , and even the poll - clerks sprang ...
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Page 137 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 402 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 409 - ... to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me.
Page 393 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 10 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 143 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands. That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i...
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Page 365 - I told my opponents the only man who could "put me down" was myself, and I trusted I should do nothing to bring about that result. If thrust out of my own pulpit, I made up my mind to lecture from city to city, from town to town, from village to village, nay...
Page 109 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages to Town : And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay.) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our Hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; ' , Who, by means of quick proofs— no revises— long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches.
Page 109 - And beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him; Who, by means of quick proofs — no revises — long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — tt approaches.