Fraser's Magazine, Volume 102Longmans, Green, and Company, 1880 |
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... less than a demand at sight for some three or four years ' income . And it can hardly be matter of surprise that he should have betrayed in his countenance some indications of bewilderment , if not of anger . Why , old boy , you look as ...
... less than a demand at sight for some three or four years ' income . And it can hardly be matter of surprise that he should have betrayed in his countenance some indications of bewilderment , if not of anger . Why , old boy , you look as ...
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... less , happy disposition , ready to take things as they came , without much concern or feeling of responsibility . Popular at school , at college , everywhere , a good shot , a plucky horseman , good , if he pleased , at books , a bit ...
... less , happy disposition , ready to take things as they came , without much concern or feeling of responsibility . Popular at school , at college , everywhere , a good shot , a plucky horseman , good , if he pleased , at books , a bit ...
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... less of foreign affairs than a well - informed and thoughtful private man . I remember some years ago reading an article , written by one who , I believe , was not strictly a diploma- tist , but who had certainly passed his life in the ...
... less of foreign affairs than a well - informed and thoughtful private man . I remember some years ago reading an article , written by one who , I believe , was not strictly a diploma- tist , but who had certainly passed his life in the ...
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... less peculiar . In both cases a power has grown up , resting on no genuine national basis , but consisting of all the possessions which have by any means , fair or foul , peaceful or violent , come into the hands of a certain ruling ...
... less peculiar . In both cases a power has grown up , resting on no genuine national basis , but consisting of all the possessions which have by any means , fair or foul , peaceful or violent , come into the hands of a certain ruling ...
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... less than to all the nations which are still under the Turk , Mr. Gladstone's triumph was indeed glad tidings of great joy . His accession to power was at once followed by a formal denial on the part of the representative of Austria in ...
... less than to all the nations which are still under the Turk , Mr. Gladstone's triumph was indeed glad tidings of great joy . His accession to power was at once followed by a formal denial on the part of the representative of Austria in ...
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Page 665 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 49 - They are all gone into the world of light ! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest, After the sun's remove.
Page 306 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Page 665 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 498 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing...
Page 202 - THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE. HERE, where the world is quiet, Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams of dreams ; I watch the green field growing For reaping folk and sowing, For harvest-time and mowing, A sleepy world of streams. I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap : I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds...
Page 721 - Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Page 665 - She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth meat to her household, And a portion to her maidens.
Page 506 - And now, to issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer's ken. Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid...
Page 124 - ... assert Eternal Providence, and justify the ways of God to man.