The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 19Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1850 |
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Page 31
... success- ful in swelling the number of the undoubted dead , he conceives it his duty in compensa- tion to preserve to society the many who were only dead in appearance . He seems to have persuaded himself that burial - grounds are a ...
... success- ful in swelling the number of the undoubted dead , he conceives it his duty in compensa- tion to preserve to society the many who were only dead in appearance . He seems to have persuaded himself that burial - grounds are a ...
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... success bears out the author of a text - book on legal medicine , many failures , for failures imply the absence says that unless secured to the table they of notable incidents , and having nothing to are often heaved up and thrown to ...
... success bears out the author of a text - book on legal medicine , many failures , for failures imply the absence says that unless secured to the table they of notable incidents , and having nothing to are often heaved up and thrown to ...
Page 43
... success . The grief will not be more bitter in the end , that to keep it back had been the last service of love . Tears are a tribute of which those who be- stow it should bear all the cost . torment is the attempt to arrest forcibly ...
... success . The grief will not be more bitter in the end , that to keep it back had been the last service of love . Tears are a tribute of which those who be- stow it should bear all the cost . torment is the attempt to arrest forcibly ...
Page 53
... successful valor of French sol- diers , and the wondrous skill of their great Chieftain , Napoleon . With these , however , he was not content , but seeks to gather lau- rels for France in fields wherein victory has not hitherto been of ...
... successful valor of French sol- diers , and the wondrous skill of their great Chieftain , Napoleon . With these , however , he was not content , but seeks to gather lau- rels for France in fields wherein victory has not hitherto been of ...
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... successes of her warriors by attempting to convert their de- feats into victories , or to exalt their glory by ... successful general , we should hesitate and doubt , simply because we find the historian dealing thus unscrupulously with ...
... successes of her warriors by attempting to convert their de- feats into victories , or to exalt their glory by ... successful general , we should hesitate and doubt , simply because we find the historian dealing thus unscrupulously with ...
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Page 29 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 122 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 128 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 461 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 124 - Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
Page 320 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 132 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ! Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it : from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Page 86 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Page 348 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 304 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.