The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, Volumes 1-2John Anderson [for John Johnstone], 1832 - Scottish periodicals |
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... better . But now a wider , wilder range of country opens before the fast - whirling Waggon . From the Pent- lands on the south - west , our glance may sweep round and along the browner and more distant ridge of the Moorfoot Hills ; and ...
... better . But now a wider , wilder range of country opens before the fast - whirling Waggon . From the Pent- lands on the south - west , our glance may sweep round and along the browner and more distant ridge of the Moorfoot Hills ; and ...
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... better guide than Sir There is yet a third and more romantic route , Walter , which the pedestrian who starts early may easily accomplish . To this we shall next week be his guide . cloth , spread it again , and draw it along. To trace ...
... better guide than Sir There is yet a third and more romantic route , Walter , which the pedestrian who starts early may easily accomplish . To this we shall next week be his guide . cloth , spread it again , and draw it along. To trace ...
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classes , if we would give them better habits , as well | the producers , the many , sunk , or kept in abject as make them better workmen , we ought to endea- poverty , while the few are luxuriously accommo- vour to make them acquainted ...
classes , if we would give them better habits , as well | the producers , the many , sunk , or kept in abject as make them better workmen , we ought to endea- poverty , while the few are luxuriously accommo- vour to make them acquainted ...
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... better sort , a full proportion of pretty women , as indeed there is all over Scotland . The men have more regard to the comeliness of their posterity , than in those countries where a large fortune serves to soften the hardest features ...
... better sort , a full proportion of pretty women , as indeed there is all over Scotland . The men have more regard to the comeliness of their posterity , than in those countries where a large fortune serves to soften the hardest features ...
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... better texture and fine pattern , sets her cap and her curls jauntily , and lays aside the neck- handkerchief for a high body , which , by the way , is not half so pretty . There is something very warm and latent in the handkerchief ...
... better texture and fine pattern , sets her cap and her curls jauntily , and lays aside the neck- handkerchief for a high body , which , by the way , is not half so pretty . There is something very warm and latent in the handkerchief ...
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Popular passages
Page 273 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Page 30 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ; ho ! matrons of Lucerne ; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Page 290 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.
Page 82 - The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is, what? — the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.
Page 298 - Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be!
Page 30 - Bartholomew," was passed from man to man ; But out spake gentle Henry, "No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Page 290 - Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants...
Page 30 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew,
Page 30 - Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land ! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand ; And, as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Page 268 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain ! But when I speak— thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid...