Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71W. Blackwood & Sons, 1852 - Scotland |
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... taken , the following graphic description of the state of Paris in the first week of December 1851 , three years and nine months after the overthrow of Louis Philippe , and establishment of Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity by the ...
... taken , the following graphic description of the state of Paris in the first week of December 1851 , three years and nine months after the overthrow of Louis Philippe , and establishment of Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity by the ...
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... taken , that he will obtain a large majority of suffrages , and that no serious resistance will be offered to him in the departments . We may gather , from various signs , that gradually all traces of the revolution of February will ...
... taken , that he will obtain a large majority of suffrages , and that no serious resistance will be offered to him in the departments . We may gather , from various signs , that gradually all traces of the revolution of February will ...
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... taken place even during a period when the price of provisions has been constantly fall- ing , and , therefore , the cost of their maintenance should be diminished in- stead of being increased ; for the fol- lowing extract from Mr ...
... taken place even during a period when the price of provisions has been constantly fall- ing , and , therefore , the cost of their maintenance should be diminished in- stead of being increased ; for the fol- lowing extract from Mr ...
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... taken up to import food from Poland , and the eastern states of Europe - yet in spite of the extraordinary impulse thus given to the shipping interest , it has declined during the very period when this prodigious increase in the expor ...
... taken up to import food from Poland , and the eastern states of Europe - yet in spite of the extraordinary impulse thus given to the shipping interest , it has declined during the very period when this prodigious increase in the expor ...
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... taken place in it is to be ascribed by no means to Free Trade , but to other causes wholly irrespective of that policy , and which , as will immediately appear , are mainly to be found in the repeal of the Free - Trade monetary system ...
... taken place in it is to be ascribed by no means to Free Trade , but to other causes wholly irrespective of that policy , and which , as will immediately appear , are mainly to be found in the repeal of the Free - Trade monetary system ...
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Page 250 - Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell time it is but motion. Tell flesh it is but dust; And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.
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Page 303 - ... order; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out — , when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent — then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension of things, is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give.
Page 115 - They were men to gain whose hearts, and the hearts of their fathers, had been the aim and exultation of his life.
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Page 69 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak : but they are commanded to be under obedience, as 35 also saith the law.
Page 302 - ... some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself, not by the low pimping politics of a court, but to win his way to power, through the laborious gradations of public service; and to secure himself a well-earned rank in parliament, by a thorough knowledge of its constitution, and a perfect practice in all its business.