Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 25; Volume 88John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1877 - American periodicals |
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... tell what the complexion of the race really was under the mask of soot and clotted train - oil which besmeared their faces . It will readily be conceived that a warm bath to such people was more than a luxury . It was , in fact , as ...
... tell what the complexion of the race really was under the mask of soot and clotted train - oil which besmeared their faces . It will readily be conceived that a warm bath to such people was more than a luxury . It was , in fact , as ...
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... tell . It might be hot in summer , but in rain and wet and snow , in winter - in ordi- nary English weather , in short - it is plain that any Lilliputian warehouse that in- troduces it will confer , as the advertise- ments say , ' a ...
... tell . It might be hot in summer , but in rain and wet and snow , in winter - in ordi- nary English weather , in short - it is plain that any Lilliputian warehouse that in- troduces it will confer , as the advertise- ments say , ' a ...
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... tell , all about the pillars which support this upper earth . In other countries a solitary re- tirement is not ... telling him to call out , ' Lord of strength , come forth . ' Immediately there appeared to him an amarok , that is a ...
... tell , all about the pillars which support this upper earth . In other countries a solitary re- tirement is not ... telling him to call out , ' Lord of strength , come forth . ' Immediately there appeared to him an amarok , that is a ...
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... tell them that it is usual for those who enter a Greenland house to take off their upper garments , a custom which we are sorry to add does not imply the use of under garments . In the engravings of Eskimo interiors all through this ...
... tell them that it is usual for those who enter a Greenland house to take off their upper garments , a custom which we are sorry to add does not imply the use of under garments . In the engravings of Eskimo interiors all through this ...
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... tell home . Bunsen's was a curious life of failure in the objects upon which he had set his heart . The gods shaped his ends to en- tirely contrary courses to those which he had rough - hewn for himself . He ab- horred diplomacy , and ...
... tell home . Bunsen's was a curious life of failure in the objects upon which he had set his heart . The gods shaped his ends to en- tirely contrary courses to those which he had rough - hewn for himself . He ab- horred diplomacy , and ...
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Page 546 - ... and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Page 128 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 478 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
Page 286 - Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Page 279 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 500 - Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, "Let others shoot, For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot!
Page 368 - An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart.
Page 211 - Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
Page 529 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Page 514 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.