Blackwood's Magazine, Bind 221William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Side 17
... miles or so where we'd got to . Cape Lai Lee Shan was some- where ahead of us I hoped ; but I didn't want to hit it , so I stopped the engines and sent the second mate aft to take a cast of the lead . I did it because it never pays to ...
... miles or so where we'd got to . Cape Lai Lee Shan was some- where ahead of us I hoped ; but I didn't want to hit it , so I stopped the engines and sent the second mate aft to take a cast of the lead . I did it because it never pays to ...
Side 29
... miles ' walk we arrived at the beach , and saw a boat not far from the shore , so we stripped to our shirts and trousers and swam out to it . It was flat - bottomed , and about 12 feet long . The painter was cut , and we moved off , and ...
... miles ' walk we arrived at the beach , and saw a boat not far from the shore , so we stripped to our shirts and trousers and swam out to it . It was flat - bottomed , and about 12 feet long . The painter was cut , and we moved off , and ...
Side 55
... miles below Bordeaux becomes the Gironde , where the Dordogne joins it . There is one exception . Emilion is on the north bank of the Dordogne , and therefore is divided from the other dis- tricts by two broad tideways and from fifteen ...
... miles below Bordeaux becomes the Gironde , where the Dordogne joins it . There is one exception . Emilion is on the north bank of the Dordogne , and therefore is divided from the other dis- tricts by two broad tideways and from fifteen ...
Side 59
... miles you reach Barsac . But the great wines are all made still farther on , near the village of Sauternes : Château Yquem , the old castle of the Counts de Lur Saluzes , is on a hill over- looking the village . Here was always made a ...
... miles you reach Barsac . But the great wines are all made still farther on , near the village of Sauternes : Château Yquem , the old castle of the Counts de Lur Saluzes , is on a hill over- looking the village . Here was always made a ...
Side 80
... miles of frozen , rutty , country track and some water splashes precede a genuine cor- duroy road of the most un- compromising sort . Apprecia- tion of the dawn as it dissi- pates the gloom of the vast forests is somewhat marred by the ...
... miles of frozen , rutty , country track and some water splashes precede a genuine cor- duroy road of the most un- compromising sort . Apprecia- tion of the dawn as it dissi- pates the gloom of the vast forests is somewhat marred by the ...
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Side 398 - gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also ; but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. O! ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus.
Side 684 - there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply are long ago
Side 679 - is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.'
Side 680 - : " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country.
Side 677 - will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues.
Side 681 - had a notion not very peculiar that he could not write but at certain times or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Side 677 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? But the
Side 683 - writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent.
Side 576 - has long lain halfhidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, meeting where he likes, bawling what he likes, breaking what he likes.
Side 568 - The Soviet Government undertakes not to support with funds or in any other form persons or bodies or agencies or institutions whose aim is to spread discontent or to foment rebellion in any part of the British Empire, and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions.