Blackwood's Magazine, Zväzok 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Strana 19
... clear later . The super- cargo , who had now recovered , having got his own way , re- galed me with bits of Heine ... clearly visible . Chatsworth cal- culated that we ought to reach Puerto Cortez about daylight next morning if this ...
... clear later . The super- cargo , who had now recovered , having got his own way , re- galed me with bits of Heine ... clearly visible . Chatsworth cal- culated that we ought to reach Puerto Cortez about daylight next morning if this ...
Strana 41
... clear every one out of the Hospital , the murmur of many compound . Then put a guard voices filled the air . M'William on the gate , and let no one was puzzled . The orderlies in without my permission . It looked apprehensive . Turning ...
... clear every one out of the Hospital , the murmur of many compound . Then put a guard voices filled the air . M'William on the gate , and let no one was puzzled . The orderlies in without my permission . It looked apprehensive . Turning ...
Strana 53
... clear sky , when suddenly there police station , whose occupants is heard a crack like a distant at first took them for a Zeppe- pistol shot . For a moment lin , and then , deceived by a nothing happens , then gradu- large mound of sand ...
... clear sky , when suddenly there police station , whose occupants is heard a crack like a distant at first took them for a Zeppe- pistol shot . For a moment lin , and then , deceived by a nothing happens , then gradu- large mound of sand ...
Strana 55
... clear . " A most troublesome and annoying neighbour he proved . The Fleet tried this way and that to catch him , and at length organised a hunt with kite balloons . Whether this would have been success- ful one cannot say , for it was ...
... clear . " A most troublesome and annoying neighbour he proved . The Fleet tried this way and that to catch him , and at length organised a hunt with kite balloons . Whether this would have been success- ful one cannot say , for it was ...
Strana 74
... clear of the schooner and swimming about in the dark . It was as black as the innards of a cow , and I couldn't see much of anything ; but when something hit me in the mouth , I grabbed it and found I'd got hold of one of our hatch ...
... clear of the schooner and swimming about in the dark . It was as black as the innards of a cow , and I couldn't see much of anything ; but when something hit me in the mouth , I grabbed it and found I'd got hold of one of our hatch ...
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Strana 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Strana 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Strana 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Strana 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Strana 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Strana 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Strana 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Strana 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Strana 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Strana 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.