Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 18W. Blackwood & Sons, 1825 |
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... never were before , and never will be again - who must always have her in full - dress - and that a new suit - " always at the top of her bent , " one way or other - ever in extremes- we say we shrewdly suspect such a man can have no ...
... never were before , and never will be again - who must always have her in full - dress - and that a new suit - " always at the top of her bent , " one way or other - ever in extremes- we say we shrewdly suspect such a man can have no ...
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... never , before this , ceased to respect him . We never mistook him for a statesman , but we always thought that he possessed a share of that man- ly , frank , blunt , honest , downright , old English spirit , which disdains trick ...
... never , before this , ceased to respect him . We never mistook him for a statesman , but we always thought that he possessed a share of that man- ly , frank , blunt , honest , downright , old English spirit , which disdains trick ...
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... never gave more unanswerable evidence that they were actuated by such hostility , than they have done during the present session of Parliament . The Catholics have lost ground fearfully among the Dis- senters . The Methodists , many of ...
... never gave more unanswerable evidence that they were actuated by such hostility , than they have done during the present session of Parliament . The Catholics have lost ground fearfully among the Dis- senters . The Methodists , many of ...
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... never be al- tered or abolished . It would be pre- posterous in us to do so . The whole that we contend for is adherence to the old and constitutional mode of al- tering and abolishing . If defects , er- rors , abuses , and evils ...
... never be al- tered or abolished . It would be pre- posterous in us to do so . The whole that we contend for is adherence to the old and constitutional mode of al- tering and abolishing . If defects , er- rors , abuses , and evils ...
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... never came to an end - and never will come to an end while I live . There was one thing , however , that I now discovered , which stunned me still the more . I perceived that he was the very individual whom I had met in the billiard ...
... never came to an end - and never will come to an end while I live . There was one thing , however , that I now discovered , which stunned me still the more . I perceived that he was the very individual whom I had met in the billiard ...
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Page 561 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 129 - O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth, delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's...
Page 107 - This true catholic faith, out of which none can be saved, which I now freely profess, and truly hold, I, N. promise, vow and swear most constantly to hold and profess the same whole and entire, with God's assistance, to the end of my life...
Page 129 - Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight . Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Page 169 - Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.
Page 231 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Page 485 - Where now thy might, which all those kings subdued ? No martial myriads muster in thy gate ; No suppliant nations in thy temple wait : No...
Page 129 - The youthful world's grey fathers in one knot, Did with intentive looks watch every hour For thy new light, and trembled at each shower...
Page 485 - While suns unblest their angry lustre fling, And wayworn pilgrims seek the scanty spring ? Where now thy pomp which kings with envy...
Page 405 - I, make your demands. Why, half a pss. of eight and a dram, sais John. I agreed, and gave him a Dram (now) in hand to bind the bargain. My hostess catechis'd John for going so...