Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 29W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831 |
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... Poor Girzzy ! NORTH . SHEPHERD . to the sair disappointment o ' Crummie , wha , after smellin ' an ' snokin ' an ' snortin ' at it for a while , began cavin ' her head like a dementit cretur , and then ettlin ' to toss't out o ' the ...
... Poor Girzzy ! NORTH . SHEPHERD . to the sair disappointment o ' Crummie , wha , after smellin ' an ' snokin ' an ' snortin ' at it for a while , began cavin ' her head like a dementit cretur , and then ettlin ' to toss't out o ' the ...
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... poor Dissenters can rear such superb chapels as they do , it cannot be impossible for opulent church- men to imitate them . Suppose the King , and also the Queen for the matter concerns the fair sex as well as the other - were to nobly ...
... poor Dissenters can rear such superb chapels as they do , it cannot be impossible for opulent church- men to imitate them . Suppose the King , and also the Queen for the matter concerns the fair sex as well as the other - were to nobly ...
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... poor against the rich ; it must have the worst effects on the general feelings of the country , and not only disable the Ministry for exer- cising its functions , but create the means of its certain destruction . The Wellington Ministry ...
... poor against the rich ; it must have the worst effects on the general feelings of the country , and not only disable the Ministry for exer- cising its functions , but create the means of its certain destruction . The Wellington Ministry ...
Page 103
... Poor - rates it would give to every parish full knowledge of the charac- ter and circumstances of its poorer inhabitants individually , and thereby prevent much imposition and abuse . Our conviction is , that it would di- minish the Poor ...
... Poor - rates it would give to every parish full knowledge of the charac- ter and circumstances of its poorer inhabitants individually , and thereby prevent much imposition and abuse . Our conviction is , that it would di- minish the Poor ...
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... poor in friendly communication and union with their superiors . But where is the ground for hope ? Previously to late years , when the government was really a popular one , a new law was at once repeal- ed , if it were injurious or ...
... poor in friendly communication and union with their superiors . But where is the ground for hope ? Previously to late years , when the government was really a popular one , a new law was at once repeal- ed , if it were injurious or ...
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Page 445 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 279 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 292 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Page 183 - If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve : and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Page 279 - The hour of my departure's come; I hear the voice that calls me home: Now, O my God ! let trouble cease.
Page 291 - Thy most magnificent and mighty freak, The wonder of the North. No forest fell, When thou wouldst build ; no quarry sent its stores T' enrich thy walls : but thou didst hew the floods, And make thy marble of the glassy wave.
Page 283 - Smooth'd up with snow ; and what is land, unknown, What water, of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils.
Page 184 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Page 30 - ... illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person.
Page 302 - At the dead hour of night was heard the cry Of one in jeopardy. I rose, and ran To where the circling eddy of a pool Beneath the ford, us'd oft to bring within My reach whatever floating thing the stream Had caught.