Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 98William Blackwood, 1865 - England |
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... fact so clear and palpable it requires no demonstration . There is a charming simplicity in the style , with that small dash of com- plication which is the necessary ingredient of a certain evasiveness . Let the candidate be ever so ...
... fact so clear and palpable it requires no demonstration . There is a charming simplicity in the style , with that small dash of com- plication which is the necessary ingredient of a certain evasiveness . Let the candidate be ever so ...
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... fact remained palpable , that the man to conciliate the voters should be he who could most certainly provide them with material guarantees of his good- will . To secure freedom of election was naturally a great object with the ...
... fact remained palpable , that the man to conciliate the voters should be he who could most certainly provide them with material guarantees of his good- will . To secure freedom of election was naturally a great object with the ...
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... fact , the critics pre- sumed to be able , by a post mortem , to pronounce upon the man's de- fects pretty much as the surgeon might on his physical derange- ments ; and as the doctors , on dis- covering a lesion here , an adhe- sion ...
... fact , the critics pre- sumed to be able , by a post mortem , to pronounce upon the man's de- fects pretty much as the surgeon might on his physical derange- ments ; and as the doctors , on dis- covering a lesion here , an adhe- sion ...
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... fact , his geese are not merely swans , but infinitely prettier than his neighbours ' swans - whiter , more stately , and more graceful ? Some will perhaps demur to either or both of my propositions . One may tell me that his well ...
... fact , his geese are not merely swans , but infinitely prettier than his neighbours ' swans - whiter , more stately , and more graceful ? Some will perhaps demur to either or both of my propositions . One may tell me that his well ...
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... fact that the king , among his aspirations , aimed at being a poet , tells alto- gether against him ; for his aim was mere versification and Stern- holdian grandiloquence , and in that he failed . Mr Carlyle , with all his tendencies ...
... fact that the king , among his aspirations , aimed at being a poet , tells alto- gether against him ; for his aim was mere versification and Stern- holdian grandiloquence , and in that he failed . Mr Carlyle , with all his tendencies ...
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Page 188 - My dear," said Miss Marjoribanks, with a little severity, " I thought you knew me better. If I had been thinking of that sort of thing, I never would have come home at all ; and when you know how kind papa has been about the drawing-room and everything. Say what you were going to say, and never think of me." "Ah, Lucilla, I have had my life," said the trembling woman, whose agitation was coming to a climax — " I have had it, and done with it ; and you have been so good to me; and if, after all,...