Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 42; Volume 105John Holmes Agnew, Henry T. Steele, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1885 |
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... possessed of less military knowledge than many volunteer officers at home , and whose training and habits peculiarly unfitted him for any duties of command . Failing him , there came in the roll of seniority a number of lieu- tenant ...
... possessed of less military knowledge than many volunteer officers at home , and whose training and habits peculiarly unfitted him for any duties of command . Failing him , there came in the roll of seniority a number of lieu- tenant ...
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... possession of Lord Wolseley's wishes and orders , it is inconceivable that Sir Charles Wilson would have been allowed to dawdle for three full days at Abu Kru , or that he would have been per- mitted to fly in the face of his instruc ...
... possession of Lord Wolseley's wishes and orders , it is inconceivable that Sir Charles Wilson would have been allowed to dawdle for three full days at Abu Kru , or that he would have been per- mitted to fly in the face of his instruc ...
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... possession of slaves anyhow acquired can go ? And if we are in earnest about this , had we not better begin in Cairo than in Khar- toum ? It is the conviction of the army on the Nile that , bad as the outcome of the enterprise has been ...
... possession of slaves anyhow acquired can go ? And if we are in earnest about this , had we not better begin in Cairo than in Khar- toum ? It is the conviction of the army on the Nile that , bad as the outcome of the enterprise has been ...
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... possession of supernatural powers . After long tossing to and fro upon the waters he is cast upon the earth , as yet a barren , woodless and desolate solitude . In the second Rune , we have a singu . larly interesting account of the ...
... possession of supernatural powers . After long tossing to and fro upon the waters he is cast upon the earth , as yet a barren , woodless and desolate solitude . In the second Rune , we have a singu . larly interesting account of the ...
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... possession . With reference to the last offer , he says : — 66 Best are ever one's own acres , Best are ever one's own harvests ; " and , continuing his magic song , plunges the youth deeper and deeper in the morass . We now come to the ...
... possession . With reference to the last offer , he says : — 66 Best are ever one's own acres , Best are ever one's own harvests ; " and , continuing his magic song , plunges the youth deeper and deeper in the morass . We now come to the ...
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Page 333 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 521 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 521 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 141 - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Page 161 - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
Page 523 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 301 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 521 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown: The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down.
Page 522 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 161 - This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.