Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 33James Fraser, 1846 |
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... questions which can ex- ercise the mind of a thinking man . Crime prevails on all sides of us : and the circumstances ... question still re- mains , " What in the beginning led to such excessive indulgence ? " and how came the man ...
... questions which can ex- ercise the mind of a thinking man . Crime prevails on all sides of us : and the circumstances ... question still re- mains , " What in the beginning led to such excessive indulgence ? " and how came the man ...
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... question all bear , where they yet survive , a remarkable family likeness one to another . You find in each a rather long front , with a porch about the principal entrance ; gables at either flank which face in three separate directions ...
... question all bear , where they yet survive , a remarkable family likeness one to another . You find in each a rather long front , with a porch about the principal entrance ; gables at either flank which face in three separate directions ...
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... question , how far an Austrian general could then venture to aban- don an Austrian province , though certain of its being no longer defen- sible . If Napoleon's letter above quoted evinces no profound judgment or power of calculation ...
... question , how far an Austrian general could then venture to aban- don an Austrian province , though certain of its being no longer defen- sible . If Napoleon's letter above quoted evinces no profound judgment or power of calculation ...
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... question the great military qualities ascribed to him are forced to allow that he was a bold player and long remained a successful gambler . But here we have an important question to ask of the admirers of his military genius . Why did ...
... question the great military qualities ascribed to him are forced to allow that he was a bold player and long remained a successful gambler . But here we have an important question to ask of the admirers of his military genius . Why did ...
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... question of many a learned man , and many a dusty volume , but without satisfactory result . All my researches only give me brief and scattered facts . These facts I en- deavoured to interpret . I formed a theory on the matter , and ...
... question of many a learned man , and many a dusty volume , but without satisfactory result . All my researches only give me brief and scattered facts . These facts I en- deavoured to interpret . I formed a theory on the matter , and ...
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Page 301 - Malcom, Land, rediv. INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT ALLUDED TO IN THE SKETCH Here lyes the Loyal Duke of Newcastle, and his Duchess his second wife, by whom he had no issue. Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
Page 445 - Mr. Wilkes was very assiduous in helping him to some fine veal. "Pray give me leave, Sir: — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Page 66 - Was easy, though they wanted shoes ; And crazy Congreve scarce could spare A shilling to discharge his chair...
Page 498 - So here they fall to strife ; With one another they did fight About the children's life : And he that was of mildest mood Did slay the other there, Within an unfrequented wood...
Page 575 - For, to make myself absolutely dead in a poetical capacity, my resolution at present is, never to exercise any more that faculty. It is, I confess, but seldom seen that the poet dies before the man ; for, when we once fall in love with that bewitching art, we do not use to court it as a mistress, but marry it as a wife, and take it for better or worse, as an inseparable companion of our whole life.
Page 62 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
Page 134 - God is glorified in the sun and moon, in the rare fabric of the honeycombs, in the discipline of bees, in the economy of pismires, in the little houses of birds, in the curiosity of an eye, God being pleased to delight in those little images and reflexes of Himself from those pretty mirrors...
Page 292 - For it was not amorous love, I never was infected therewith, it is a disease, or a passion, or both, I only know by relation, not by experience ; neither could title, wealth, power, or person entice me to love.
Page 259 - The increase and expansion of the Christian creed and ritual, and the variations which have attended the process in the case of individual writers and churches, are the necessary attendants on any philosophy or polity which takes possession of the intellect and heart, and has had any wide or extended dominion.