The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1865 - American literature |
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... remarkable want of all , when it is the spade and pickaxe for the defence . Building utensils ( matériaux de con- struction ) also fell short , with the excep tion of the wood , iron , cordage , and sail - cloth in the naval arsenal ...
... remarkable want of all , when it is the spade and pickaxe for the defence . Building utensils ( matériaux de con- struction ) also fell short , with the excep tion of the wood , iron , cordage , and sail - cloth in the naval arsenal ...
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... fighteresses , " as Captain Burton absurdly calls them , is one of the most remarkable of Da- homan peculiarities . A closer inspection The 99 overthrow of the nation will doubtless be largely due 1865. ] 21 A MISSION TO DAHOMEY .
... fighteresses , " as Captain Burton absurdly calls them , is one of the most remarkable of Da- homan peculiarities . A closer inspection The 99 overthrow of the nation will doubtless be largely due 1865. ] 21 A MISSION TO DAHOMEY .
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... remarkable confirmation in the utter repulse which they met at the hands of their inveterate enemies only six weeks after his visit to Agbome , the capital of Dahomey . The respect paid to the female slaves of the Amazons is not less ...
... remarkable confirmation in the utter repulse which they met at the hands of their inveterate enemies only six weeks after his visit to Agbome , the capital of Dahomey . The respect paid to the female slaves of the Amazons is not less ...
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... remarkable duality of the royal person , which is , ethnologically , perhaps the most interesting feature of his book . a The author is not at all sanguine about the success of modern missionary enter- prise in Dahomey . Admitting that ...
... remarkable duality of the royal person , which is , ethnologically , perhaps the most interesting feature of his book . a The author is not at all sanguine about the success of modern missionary enter- prise in Dahomey . Admitting that ...
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... remarkable for its humor . It must be admitted that he some- times spoils both his wit and humor by putting them in the mouth of the wrong person . This arises from the fact that he often begins a book without having formed a clear ...
... remarkable for its humor . It must be admitted that he some- times spoils both his wit and humor by putting them in the mouth of the wrong person . This arises from the fact that he often begins a book without having formed a clear ...
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Page 65 - LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. "And many people shall go and say, 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:' for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 464 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 469 - I do not think so ; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart ; but it is no matter.
Page 279 - A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres. and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Page 423 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Page 211 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 468 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 280 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 457 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Page 63 - Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls A place and a name better than of sons and of daughters : I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.