Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Том 96

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William Blackwood, 1864
 

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Сторінка 525 - the true practical philosopher with a limited portion of the gifts of fortune, and makes him say with Agur, " Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny Thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal.
Сторінка 331 - brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect—for I never had a patron before. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocke.
Сторінка 582 - do Protestants give their assent to the belief that Christ "shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead : whose kingdom shall have no end.
Сторінка 637 - it should be conducted upon the highest principles known to Christian civilisation. It should not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any state, in any event. It should not be at all a war upon population, but against armed forces and political organisations. Neither confiscation of property, political
Сторінка 296 - Arabian Nights' were true; my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers and talismans. ... I thought life might be a dream, or I an angel, and all this world a deception ; my fellow-angels, by a playful device, concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world; and
Сторінка 299 - will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding ; whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle lest they fall upon thee.' This is the very difference, he used to say, between slaves and friends or children. Friends do not ask for literal commands; but, from their knowledge of the speaker, they understand his
Сторінка 169 - some such gloss must be accepted if we are to hold to Goethe's view—" a lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, .without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinking beneath a burden which it cannot bear, and
Сторінка 347 - Her Majesty has been engaged, in concert with the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, in an endeavour to bring to effect an amicable arrangement of differences which had arisen between the Hospodar of
Сторінка 417 - Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up and began to speak. And He delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on all : and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us: and, That God hath visited His people.' Think of this scene, a touching and memorable incident, one among many, though few so striking, in
Сторінка 565 - steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die. And grassy barrows of the happier dead. Release me, and restore mo to the ground ; Thou

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