Miscellanies, Critical, Imaginative, and Juridical: Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1855 - Law |
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... tion . Carl was of a very speculative abstract turn , and having been early initiated into the gloomy depths of transcendentalism , had begun latterly to turn his thoughts towards the occult sciences . About the period when this ...
... tion . Carl was of a very speculative abstract turn , and having been early initiated into the gloomy depths of transcendentalism , had begun latterly to turn his thoughts towards the occult sciences . About the period when this ...
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... tion . Carl found it impossible to partake of the exquisite fare before him . He contrived , however , to quaff an ample cup of rich wine , which soon revived his torpid faculties . He turned towards the silent servants , stationed at ...
... tion . Carl found it impossible to partake of the exquisite fare before him . He contrived , however , to quaff an ample cup of rich wine , which soon revived his torpid faculties . He turned towards the silent servants , stationed at ...
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... tion ; but in vain . His reiterated inquiries called forth no other answer than sobs and tears . " Lady ! dear , beloved lady - why are you bent on breaking my heart ? Have I then so soon grown un- worthy in your eyes ? " again inquired ...
... tion ; but in vain . His reiterated inquiries called forth no other answer than sobs and tears . " Lady ! dear , beloved lady - why are you bent on breaking my heart ? Have I then so soon grown un- worthy in your eyes ? " again inquired ...
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... tion of even a limb without almost apologizing to one's neighbours for incommoding them ! As this was the day of opening the railroad , I soon found that a great struggle was to be made by our coachman to see whether he could not get ...
... tion of even a limb without almost apologizing to one's neighbours for incommoding them ! As this was the day of opening the railroad , I soon found that a great struggle was to be made by our coachman to see whether he could not get ...
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... tion , prove irresistible ; it was for such reasons that he rose up early , and went to bed late , and ate the bread of carefulness . Had he been alone in the world - had he had none to provide for but himself , and yet had mani- fested ...
... tion , prove irresistible ; it was for such reasons that he rose up early , and went to bed late , and ate the bread of carefulness . Had he been alone in the world - had he had none to provide for but himself , and yet had mani- fested ...
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Page 81 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
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Page 462 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 367 - This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed. A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world, as with an earthquake. And is America safe? Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
Page 396 - Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
Page 115 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; . . . what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hie j'acet!