Blackwood's Magazine, Bind 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Side 13
... fact , all the entertainments which little Salvador provides , but without that attractive family party homeliness . This city is too big for that , but it can be interesting in other ways . One night , when we drove into the town to ...
... fact , all the entertainments which little Salvador provides , but without that attractive family party homeliness . This city is too big for that , but it can be interesting in other ways . One night , when we drove into the town to ...
Side 31
... fact he was a success up to a certain point and then he crashed . It wasn't his fault that he crashed , he had hard luck . Unfortunately for Par- kinson Smythe the incident made a good story , and the army laughed . He wasn't ac ...
... fact he was a success up to a certain point and then he crashed . It wasn't his fault that he crashed , he had hard luck . Unfortunately for Par- kinson Smythe the incident made a good story , and the army laughed . He wasn't ac ...
Side 33
... fact everything was beastly . At this point two lean yellow pie - dogs joined him , yapping and snarling at his pony's heels . The animal , a well - bred Syrian Arab imported from Khartoum , resented their atten- tions and , after ...
... fact everything was beastly . At this point two lean yellow pie - dogs joined him , yapping and snarling at his pony's heels . The animal , a well - bred Syrian Arab imported from Khartoum , resented their atten- tions and , after ...
Side 34
... to the Mamur . Abdulla Effendi was too well versed in the foibles of in- specting officers to attempt to intervene , but M'William had desirable , in fact - but a con- founded nuisance 34 [ July The Butcher of Berinnis .
... to the Mamur . Abdulla Effendi was too well versed in the foibles of in- specting officers to attempt to intervene , but M'William had desirable , in fact - but a con- founded nuisance 34 [ July The Butcher of Berinnis .
Side 46
... fact , so formidable and elaborate that the king , always interested in such matters , paid a special visit to inspect it after the war . It was because the enemy recognised his right wing to be a sensitive spot that he pro- tected it ...
... fact , so formidable and elaborate that the king , always interested in such matters , paid a special visit to inspect it after the war . It was because the enemy recognised his right wing to be a sensitive spot that he pro- tected it ...
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Side 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Side 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Side 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Side 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Side 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Side 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Side 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Side 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Side 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Side 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.