Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volumen34James Fraser, 1846 |
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... kind , in Scriptural history , are the creation of Adam , the deluge , the call of Abraham ; and in modern history , the age of Charlemagne , from which , as from a mountain - top , the old empire of the world is seen to recede and set ...
... kind , in Scriptural history , are the creation of Adam , the deluge , the call of Abraham ; and in modern history , the age of Charlemagne , from which , as from a mountain - top , the old empire of the world is seen to recede and set ...
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... kind in our language . Mr. Mackinnon had forgotten Ferguson when he expressed a belief that the subject of civilisation had been hi- therto scarcely noticed by any writer in our nation . Surely the following “ The wealth , the ...
... kind in our language . Mr. Mackinnon had forgotten Ferguson when he expressed a belief that the subject of civilisation had been hi- therto scarcely noticed by any writer in our nation . Surely the following “ The wealth , the ...
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... kind , in aspiring to national felicity , have substituted arts which increase their riches , instead of those which improve their nature . They have entertained ad- miration of themselves under the titles of civilised , and of polished ...
... kind , in aspiring to national felicity , have substituted arts which increase their riches , instead of those which improve their nature . They have entertained ad- miration of themselves under the titles of civilised , and of polished ...
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... kind- ness . And she obeyed me , " pursued the poor old man , dashing away the tears which were now pouring down his furrowed cheeks , - " she obeyed me , sir ; for Amy had never till that day had any will but mine , and she couldn't ...
... kind- ness . And she obeyed me , " pursued the poor old man , dashing away the tears which were now pouring down his furrowed cheeks , - " she obeyed me , sir ; for Amy had never till that day had any will but mine , and she couldn't ...
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... kind of terrace upon the slope of a hill , which was crowned by the cathedral , one of the most magnificent and most nearly uniæval among the glorious monu- ments of the munificence , piety , and knowledge of those ages , to which the ...
... kind of terrace upon the slope of a hill , which was crowned by the cathedral , one of the most magnificent and most nearly uniæval among the glorious monu- ments of the munificence , piety , and knowledge of those ages , to which the ...
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Página 395 - He made a very ill appearance : he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court.
Página 176 - Court, commanding them neither to spare for any cost, expense, or travayle, to make such a triumphant banquet as they might not only wonder at it here, but also make a glorious report of it in their country, to the great honour of the king and his realm.
Página 244 - Ho, pretty Page with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear ! All your wish is woman to win : This is the way that boys begin : Wait till you come to Forty Year...
Página 244 - Ever a month was passed away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed. The brightest eyes that ever have shone, May pray and whisper, and we not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone.
Página 4 - It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level ; the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.
Página 74 - WHAT Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years ; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Página 487 - While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe th...
Página 405 - But the days of Shaftesbury were not destined to be passed in peaceful lucubrations. In 1676-7 he was imprisoned in the Tower with Buckingham for a breach of privilege of the House of Lords, and was confined there long after his fellow-prisoners had been released. He calls himself, in one of his letters at this time, " an infirm old man shut up in a winter's prison." And, indeed, his confinement was a most oppressive act. But he was henceforth the subject of plots, and the victim, a sturdy one nevertheless,...
Página 244 - Wait till you come to Forty Year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.
Página 414 - I shall inquire into the original of those ideas, notions, or whatever else you please to call them, which a man observes, and is conscious to himself he has in his mind, and the ways whereby the understanding comes to be furnished with them.