Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 208William Blackwood, 1920 - Scotland |
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... tell me of what he had seen in the Baltio during the revolution - of the officers of the battleships slaughtered or thrown overboard with weights at their feet , so that when the wife of one sought to recover his body , the diver she ...
... tell me of what he had seen in the Baltio during the revolution - of the officers of the battleships slaughtered or thrown overboard with weights at their feet , so that when the wife of one sought to recover his body , the diver she ...
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... Tell me , " she asked in a loud whisper , " was he anointed ? " Reply was impossible , for I was quite at sea . " Did you get Father Heaphy from Tubbernaphooka to him ? Could you get ne'er a priest for him at all ? " I had a glimpse ...
... Tell me , " she asked in a loud whisper , " was he anointed ? " Reply was impossible , for I was quite at sea . " Did you get Father Heaphy from Tubbernaphooka to him ? Could you get ne'er a priest for him at all ? " I had a glimpse ...
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... Tell me , " she asked in a loud whisper , " was he anointed ? " Reply was impossible , for I was quite at sea . I had a glimpse , as it were , of land . should somehow expose myself to the imputation of giving evidence against Sinn Fein ...
... Tell me , " she asked in a loud whisper , " was he anointed ? " Reply was impossible , for I was quite at sea . I had a glimpse , as it were , of land . should somehow expose myself to the imputation of giving evidence against Sinn Fein ...
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... tell me that it is no good . The whole formation . is volcanio , you see , and the strata is so broken up that the oil has leaked away . But I was out in those parts this winter , so let's hear what the ' Pioneer ' has got to say ...
... tell me that it is no good . The whole formation . is volcanio , you see , and the strata is so broken up that the oil has leaked away . But I was out in those parts this winter , so let's hear what the ' Pioneer ' has got to say ...
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... tell for some time to come . Ten or fifteen years age the State of Kentucky was famed for its blue grass , its magnificent breed of horses , and above all for its whisky . It was a very " wet State indeed . When it decided on local ...
... tell for some time to come . Ten or fifteen years age the State of Kentucky was famed for its blue grass , its magnificent breed of horses , and above all for its whisky . It was a very " wet State indeed . When it decided on local ...
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Page 180 - As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.
Page 181 - They have decided that the empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our colonial empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
Page 178 - There were days when on waking I felt I could move dynasties and governments, but that has passed away.
Page 95 - If more troops had been at hand the casualties would have been greater in proportion. It was no longer a question of merely dispersing the crowd, but one of producing a sufficient moral effect from a military point of view not only on those who were present, but more especially throughout the Punjab. There could be no question of undue severity.
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Page 343 - To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.
Page 636 - ... and, having taken the administration of justice into their own hands, were not very exact in the distribution of it.
Page 412 - It may be that at some future period the Egyptians may be rendered capable of governing themselves without the presence of a foreign army in their midst, and without foreign guidance in civil and military affairs; but that period is far distant. One or more generations must, in my opinion, pass away before the question can be even usefully discussed.
Page 95 - Nobody answers this remarkable Lord Chief Justice, "Lordship, if you were to speak for six hundred years, instead of six hours, you would only prove the more to us that, unwritten if you will, but real and fundamental, anterior to all written laws and first making written laws possible, there must have been, and is, and will be, coeval with Human Society, from its first beginnings to its ultimate end, an actual Martial Law, of more validity than any other law whatever. Lordship...