Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 12W. Blackwood., 1822 - England |
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... sure implication - political power and consequences in giving them the elec- tive franchise ! How must their sorrow have been increased by the measure which , five years ago , silently opened the army and the navy to Catholic enterprize ...
... sure implication - political power and consequences in giving them the elec- tive franchise ! How must their sorrow have been increased by the measure which , five years ago , silently opened the army and the navy to Catholic enterprize ...
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... sure was unjust . One of the privations inflicted by this act has been removed . The privilege of a Catholic Peer to come into his Majesty's presence , as an hereditary counsellor of the Crown , is restored by Lord Redesdale's Act in ...
... sure was unjust . One of the privations inflicted by this act has been removed . The privilege of a Catholic Peer to come into his Majesty's presence , as an hereditary counsellor of the Crown , is restored by Lord Redesdale's Act in ...
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... sure . This epithet has an unpleasing sound , and I am unwilling to adopt it . The present question , however , may be said to have been brought forward with much adroitness . The Right Honourable contriver of the plan certainly ...
... sure . This epithet has an unpleasing sound , and I am unwilling to adopt it . The present question , however , may be said to have been brought forward with much adroitness . The Right Honourable contriver of the plan certainly ...
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... sure- ly sufficient to grant perfect toleration to the old religion , from which the members of the Established Church have formerly suffered so much , and which boasts that its principles never change - it is enough to forgive those ...
... sure- ly sufficient to grant perfect toleration to the old religion , from which the members of the Established Church have formerly suffered so much , and which boasts that its principles never change - it is enough to forgive those ...
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... sure it would pass very heavily . I love va- riety , and nothing of that is to be met with on board a ship . " - " I agree with you , " said Mrs Monti ; 66 but variety is not necessary to happiness- a regular , well - planned ...
... sure it would pass very heavily . I love va- riety , and nothing of that is to be met with on board a ship . " - " I agree with you , " said Mrs Monti ; 66 but variety is not necessary to happiness- a regular , well - planned ...
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Page 437 - Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.* Sweet, good night!
Page 263 - That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch' could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung.
Page 189 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 174 - Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 7 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves...
Page 134 - Lady Bird ! Lady Bird ! fly away home ; your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 154 - Englishman to foreign manners and notions, that requires the assistance of social sympathy to carry it off. As the distance from home increases, this relief, which was at first a luxury, becomes a passion and an appetite. A person would almost feel stifled to find himself in the deserts of Arabia without friends and countrymen: there must be allowed to be something in the view of Athens or old Rome that claims the utterance of speech ; and I own that the Pyramids are too mighty for any single contemplation.
Page 404 - Majesty's subjects from their oath of allegiance, upon any pretext whatsoever ? 3. Is there any principle in the tenets of the Catholic Faith, by which Catholics are justified in not keeping faith with heretics, or other persons differing from them in religious opinions, in any transaction, either of a public or a private nature ? The Universities answered unanimously — 1.
Page 154 - How fine it is to enter some old town, walled and turreted, just at the approach of nightfall, or to come to some straggling village, with the lights streaming through the surrounding gloom, and then, after inquiring for the best entertainment that the place affords, to " take one's ease at one's inn"! These eventful moments in our lives' history are too precious, too full of solid, heartfelt happiness to be frittered and dribbled away in imperfect sympathy.
Page 173 - Yet some, I ween, Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend, As to a visible Power, in which did blend All that was mixed and reconciled in Thee Of mother's love with maiden purity, Of high with low, celestial with terrene...