The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots magazine, Volumes 15-18 |
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... and the threescore - and- ten , or fourscore years of the Psalmist , generally " sum it up ; " but men pant anxiously to prolong the recol- lection of themselves , and to hand down to futurity some marks of their having once been .
... and the threescore - and- ten , or fourscore years of the Psalmist , generally " sum it up ; " but men pant anxiously to prolong the recol- lection of themselves , and to hand down to futurity some marks of their having once been .
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When hearts have once mingled , Love first leaves the well - built nest , The weak one is singled To endure what it once possest . O , Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle ...
When hearts have once mingled , Love first leaves the well - built nest , The weak one is singled To endure what it once possest . O , Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle ...
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After the Acts of Sederunt are once issued , it might be construed into disrespect and contempt , to present a petition to the Judges impeaching the wis- dom of those Acts ; an experiment , indeed , which , it is said , no coun- sel or ...
After the Acts of Sederunt are once issued , it might be construed into disrespect and contempt , to present a petition to the Judges impeaching the wis- dom of those Acts ; an experiment , indeed , which , it is said , no coun- sel or ...
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Having once seen a culprit flogged for de sertion , he had no wish for a practi- cal knowledge of this discipline , and without loss of time fled to the interior , opened a school in a village on the margin of a swamp , which soon ...
Having once seen a culprit flogged for de sertion , he had no wish for a practi- cal knowledge of this discipline , and without loss of time fled to the interior , opened a school in a village on the margin of a swamp , which soon ...
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And it seems that some spirit , hid under the guise , Looks forth from the sockets that once held his eyes ; And he grasps in his marrowless fingers a dart Which is clotted with gore reeking red from the heart !
And it seems that some spirit , hid under the guise , Looks forth from the sockets that once held his eyes ; And he grasps in his marrowless fingers a dart Which is clotted with gore reeking red from the heart !
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