Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 120William Blackwood, 1876 - England |
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... Russia proved to be more than the French army could achieve ; but , the error of making the attempt once admitted , the conduct of the campaign reflected no discredit on the French leader . But when he waged war for the last time on ...
... Russia proved to be more than the French army could achieve ; but , the error of making the attempt once admitted , the conduct of the campaign reflected no discredit on the French leader . But when he waged war for the last time on ...
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... Russia . He blustered most unadvisedly about destroying Berlin , and making Frederick Wil- liam's realm a desert ; and while he was uttering threats like these , calculated to excite war to the knife against him if anything could do so ...
... Russia . He blustered most unadvisedly about destroying Berlin , and making Frederick Wil- liam's realm a desert ; and while he was uttering threats like these , calculated to excite war to the knife against him if anything could do so ...
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... Russia the year before . Any facility , therefore , which by the skill of his engineers and the exer- tions of his troops could have been provided for a rapid exodus from Leipzig should have been sought after by him with the utmost ...
... Russia the year before . Any facility , therefore , which by the skill of his engineers and the exer- tions of his troops could have been provided for a rapid exodus from Leipzig should have been sought after by him with the utmost ...
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... Russia is not prepared forcibly to carry out any aggressive schemes . The dissolution of the alliance has to happened unexpectedly , and is due to a wide divergence of interests . The Berlin Note was accepted hur- riedly , and ...
... Russia is not prepared forcibly to carry out any aggressive schemes . The dissolution of the alliance has to happened unexpectedly , and is due to a wide divergence of interests . The Berlin Note was accepted hur- riedly , and ...
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... Russia been more honest in its statesmanship , or the triple alliance more adroit and patient in its manoeuvres , a more fortunate result might have been the consequence . The policy of England in this matter cannot easily be mistaken ...
... Russia been more honest in its statesmanship , or the triple alliance more adroit and patient in its manoeuvres , a more fortunate result might have been the consequence . The policy of England in this matter cannot easily be mistaken ...
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Page 316 - And his mercy is on them that fear him From generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm ; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, And exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things ; And the rich he hath sent empty away.
Page 726 - ... bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give; And I with thee will choose to live.
Page 713 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 31 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 726 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom 80 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth...
Page 726 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Page 179 - Maître de Philosophie. La voix U se forme en rapprochant les dents sans les joindre entièrement, et allongeant les deux lèvres en dehors, les approchant aussi l'une de l'autre, sans les joindre tout à fait: U. M. Jourdain. U, U. Il n'ya rien de plus véritable : U. Le Maître de Philosophie.
Page 713 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star...
Page 26 - That no man is the lord of any thing, (Though in and of him there be much consisting,) Till he communicate his parts to others...
Page 30 - A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes • From whence 'tis nourished : The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies Each bound it chafes.