Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 83William Blackwood, 1858 - England |
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Page 15
... least six or seven ranks between me and the window . a few moments the pain , palpitation , and difficulty of breathing ceased , but the thirst continued intolerable . I called aloud ' Water for God's sake . ' I had been concluded dead ...
... least six or seven ranks between me and the window . a few moments the pain , palpitation , and difficulty of breathing ceased , but the thirst continued intolerable . I called aloud ' Water for God's sake . ' I had been concluded dead ...
Page 24
... least there is not a man in the moon ; one must dismiss , then , the idea of a rope - ladder - too precocious . But are you quite sure she is gone ? not hiding in some cupboard ? Sacre ! very odd . Have you seen Mrs Crane about it ...
... least there is not a man in the moon ; one must dismiss , then , the idea of a rope - ladder - too precocious . But are you quite sure she is gone ? not hiding in some cupboard ? Sacre ! very odd . Have you seen Mrs Crane about it ...
Page 38
... least — to write a civil answer . Mrs Haughton wrote but three lines - still they were civil - and con- ceded an interview for the next day , though implying that it was but for the purpose of assuring Mr J. Cour- tenay Smith in person ...
... least — to write a civil answer . Mrs Haughton wrote but three lines - still they were civil - and con- ceded an interview for the next day , though implying that it was but for the purpose of assuring Mr J. Cour- tenay Smith in person ...
Page 58
... least be remedied by any amount of hanging and quar- tering , or any sentence he chooses to pass upon them in the few words which dismiss them from the scene . The novelist has the same power over us as the poet he can make us , if he ...
... least be remedied by any amount of hanging and quar- tering , or any sentence he chooses to pass upon them in the few words which dismiss them from the scene . The novelist has the same power over us as the poet he can make us , if he ...
Page 61
... least want of confidence in itself ; neither , on the other hand , is there the least pretension , on the part of the nobi- lity or the landed proprietors , to the exclusive exercise of political power . There is an understood copartner ...
... least want of confidence in itself ; neither , on the other hand , is there the least pretension , on the part of the nobi- lity or the landed proprietors , to the exclusive exercise of political power . There is an understood copartner ...
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