Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 104William Blackwood, 1868 - England |
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... interests . The loftier figures , which stand well apart from the throng , are too much raised above it , in most ... interest which is often above its deserts ; for so much as human instrumen- tality can , it opens the common ranks ...
... interests . The loftier figures , which stand well apart from the throng , are too much raised above it , in most ... interest which is often above its deserts ; for so much as human instrumen- tality can , it opens the common ranks ...
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... interest such as no theory knows . Nor is the butterfly - woman any commoner than the man - butterfly in the world of fashion and gossip dead and gone . The example we choose is of the best kind of the species , a higher specimen than ...
... interest such as no theory knows . Nor is the butterfly - woman any commoner than the man - butterfly in the world of fashion and gossip dead and gone . The example we choose is of the best kind of the species , a higher specimen than ...
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... interest or his pleas- ure " can corrupt women of qua- lity , in consequence of their care- less education , -a matter which Lady Mary and everybody belong- ing to her evidently thinks a quite natural and edifying subject for discussion ...
... interest or his pleas- ure " can corrupt women of qua- lity , in consequence of their care- less education , -a matter which Lady Mary and everybody belong- ing to her evidently thinks a quite natural and edifying subject for discussion ...
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... interest , was per- emptorily condemned , after all the pretty preliminaries of her quaint courtship , to forget her doctrinaire and accept another suitor . The girl resisted , but in vain . She begged to be but left alone - to be ...
... interest , was per- emptorily condemned , after all the pretty preliminaries of her quaint courtship , to forget her doctrinaire and accept another suitor . The girl resisted , but in vain . She begged to be but left alone - to be ...
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... interest not to grow weary of one another . If I had all the personal charms I want , a face is too slight a foundation for happiness . You " Every time I see you , " writes Mr Wortley , on his side , " gives me a fresh proof of your ...
... interest not to grow weary of one another . If I had all the personal charms I want , a face is too slight a foundation for happiness . You " Every time I see you , " writes Mr Wortley , on his side , " gives me a fresh proof of your ...
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Page 228 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 245 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 450 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 244 - Thames, you see through my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open temple, wholly composed of shells in the rustic manner...
Page 229 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude, the day ; As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Page 15 - The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds two days, very seldom three. They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark ; and in eight days' time they are as well as before their illness.
Page 240 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Page 268 - Lochiel — who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend — may stay at home and learn from the newspapers the fate of his Prince !
Page 436 - Instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions: being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil.
Page 446 - About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.