Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 142William Blackwood, 1887 - England |
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Page 36
... strange that a mere score or so of stalwart ruffians should have laid half - a - dozen of parishes under regular contribution , when those parishes were popu- lated by the men of Somerset and Devon , who have always prided themselves on ...
... strange that a mere score or so of stalwart ruffians should have laid half - a - dozen of parishes under regular contribution , when those parishes were popu- lated by the men of Somerset and Devon , who have always prided themselves on ...
Page 47
... strange voices amid the roar . ' Out with the boat there ! ' some one cried ; ' Will he never come ? we shall lose the tide : His berth is trim and his cabin stored ; He's a weary long time coming aboard . ' The old man struggled upon ...
... strange voices amid the roar . ' Out with the boat there ! ' some one cried ; ' Will he never come ? we shall lose the tide : His berth is trim and his cabin stored ; He's a weary long time coming aboard . ' The old man struggled upon ...
Page 48
lawless ; and , strange to say , even down to the seventeenth century , it was infamous as the headquar- ters of pirates and buccaneers . We are told by Mr Worth , in his admirable History of Devon , ' that in the opening years of the ...
lawless ; and , strange to say , even down to the seventeenth century , it was infamous as the headquar- ters of pirates and buccaneers . We are told by Mr Worth , in his admirable History of Devon , ' that in the opening years of the ...
Page 54
... strange fascination for the other , and when , at the usual evening hour for the presentation of betrothal presents , the merry strains of the " Dragon and the Phoenix , " played by more than one band , struck upon their ears , they ...
... strange fascination for the other , and when , at the usual evening hour for the presentation of betrothal presents , the merry strains of the " Dragon and the Phoenix , " played by more than one band , struck upon their ears , they ...
Page 111
... strange perversion comes would be a cu- rious question ; probably the very revolt against such discussions has the result of violently driving into them a mind which has forced it- self to reject as conventional the usual and natural ...
... strange perversion comes would be a cu- rious question ; probably the very revolt against such discussions has the result of violently driving into them a mind which has forced it- self to reject as conventional the usual and natural ...
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