Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Bind 83

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W. Blackwood & Sons, 1858
 

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Side 26 - I with a new one : it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Side 605 - They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action.
Side 605 - In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history-, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation.
Side 487 - ... it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to...
Side 13 - ... and catching the drops as they fell, like heavy rain from my head and face ; you can hardly imagine how unhappy I was if any of them escaped my mouth.
Side 429 - There is so much power in faith," said Lionel, "even when faith is applied but to things human and earthly, that let a man be but firmly persuaded that he is born to do, some day, what at the moment seems impossible, and it is fifty to one but what he does it before he dies. Surely, when you were a child at school, you felt convinced that there was...
Side 515 - We should then also be able to take the same quantity of brandy or train oil without bad effects, because the carbon and hydrogen of these substances would only suffice to keep up the equilibrium between the external temperature and that of our bodies.
Side 330 - The fruits used by the inhabitants of southern climes do not contain, in a fresh state, more than 12 per cent. of carbon, while the blubber and train oil which feed the inhabitants of polar regions contain 66 to 80 per cent. of that element.
Side 409 - ... her advice, and her plumpness diminished. She was delighted with the success of the remedy, and continued it for more than a month. She began to have a cough ; but it was dry at its commencement, and was considered as a slight cold, which would go off. Meantime, from dry it became moist; a slow fever came on, and a difficulty of breathing; her body became lean, and wasted away ; night sweats, swelling of the feet and of the legs, succeeded, and a diarrhoea terminated her life.
Side 12 - I called to them, and begged, as the last instance of their regard, they would remove the pressure upon me, and permit me to retire out of the window, to die in quiet. They gave way, and with much difficulty I forced a passage into the centre of the prison, where the...

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