The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 5Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1845 - American literature |
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... Mehemet Ali . By Prince Puckler Muskau . 2 vols . for others ' benefit as well as his own . It must not , however , be supposed , from what has now been said , that there is much Puckler . It is in fact the most grave , of mere gossip ...
... Mehemet Ali . By Prince Puckler Muskau . 2 vols . for others ' benefit as well as his own . It must not , however , be supposed , from what has now been said , that there is much Puckler . It is in fact the most grave , of mere gossip ...
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... Mehemet Ali , who has nothing and is fit for al character , and therefore to afford a bet- ter means for that historical portraiture of it which we hold to be far more worthy of present record , because more likely to escape such record ...
... Mehemet Ali , who has nothing and is fit for al character , and therefore to afford a bet- ter means for that historical portraiture of it which we hold to be far more worthy of present record , because more likely to escape such record ...
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... Mehemet Ali so communi- cative with any one . " The following , relating to the son and successor of Mehemet Ali , is of scarcely less interest than the foregoing . particular than his father , and is what we should call a good landlord ...
... Mehemet Ali so communi- cative with any one . " The following , relating to the son and successor of Mehemet Ali , is of scarcely less interest than the foregoing . particular than his father , and is what we should call a good landlord ...
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... Mehemet Ali as Arabian , a revival of the ancient caliphate ; from which alone it expects permanence and greatness , and not in any way as a branch of the Turkish sovereignty . This work may be regarded as the most complete hand - book ...
... Mehemet Ali as Arabian , a revival of the ancient caliphate ; from which alone it expects permanence and greatness , and not in any way as a branch of the Turkish sovereignty . This work may be regarded as the most complete hand - book ...
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... Mehemet Ali , should be so inert , or so cupation of Egypt : - squeamish , as not to seize and occupy the famous land of Egypt , her virtuous absti- nence will be viewed by Mr. Warburton very much in the same light as that in which the ...
... Mehemet Ali , should be so inert , or so cupation of Egypt : - squeamish , as not to seize and occupy the famous land of Egypt , her virtuous absti- nence will be viewed by Mr. Warburton very much in the same light as that in which the ...
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Page 504 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 519 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 169 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Page 279 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 279 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 504 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce or add a furbelow.
Page 125 - Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings...
Page 329 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 279 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 8 - Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions, and Reciprocal Regulations, at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same, so far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation...