Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Bind 83

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William Blackwood, 1858
 

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Side 36 - Poole forced a ghastly smile, while Losely, gaily springing up, swept his share of booty into his pockets, slapped his comrade on the back, and said — " Then, if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain!
Side 45 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest...
Side 190 - The fool hath said in his heart that there is no God;' but the fool hath not said in his heart that there is no sorrow" — pithy and most profound sentence; intimating the irrefragable chain that binds men to the Father.
Side 23 - ... suffocated; nor could the effluvia of the one be distinguished from the other, and frequently, when I was forced by the load upon my head and shoulders to hold my face down, I was obliged, near as I was to the window, instantly to raise it again to avoid suffocation. I need not, my dear friend...
Side 328 - Then they left you for their pleasure: till in due time, one by one, Some with lives that came to nothing, some with deeds as well undone, Death came tacitly and took them where they never see the sun.
Side 404 - The crystallised part of the oil of roses, so grateful in its fragrance — a solid at ordinary temperatures, though readily volatile — is a compound substance containing exactly the same elements, and in exactly the same proportions, as the gas with which we light our streets. The tea which we daily drink, with benefit and pleasure, produces palpitations, nervous tremblings, and even paralysis, if taken in excess ; yet the peculiar organic agent — called...
Side 22 - I felt at the cries and cravings of those in the remoter parts of the prison, who could not entertain a probable hope of obtaining a drop, yet could not divest themselves of expectation, however unavailing, calling on me by the tender considerations of affection and friendship.
Side 493 - ... it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to...
Side 22 - ... had been more exhausted and could not immediately recover their legs, as others did when the word was given to rise, fell to rise no more ; for they were instantly trod to death, or suffocated. When the whole body sat down, they were so closely wedged together, that they were obliged to use many efforts, before they could put themselves in motion to get up again.
Side 22 - By keeping my face close between two of the bars I obtained air enough to give my lungs easy play, though my perspiration was excessive, and thirst commencing. At this period so strong a...

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