Fraser's Magazine, Volume 98Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878 |
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... writers on this subject have deemed it not unprofitable to enter- tain another possible standard of prosperity . The maintenance of the communications of the Empire means the security of the trade of the Empire ; or , in plainer terms ...
... writers on this subject have deemed it not unprofitable to enter- tain another possible standard of prosperity . The maintenance of the communications of the Empire means the security of the trade of the Empire ; or , in plainer terms ...
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... writer , ' was , within the memory of living persons , a garden of fertility ; but now whole plantations , with their once beautiful villas and ter- raced gardens , are nothing but an arid waste ; and yet , sixty miles away , along the ...
... writer , ' was , within the memory of living persons , a garden of fertility ; but now whole plantations , with their once beautiful villas and ter- raced gardens , are nothing but an arid waste ; and yet , sixty miles away , along the ...
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... writer , darting di- rectly down upon the tropical seas , there is evaporated from their sur- face , within the year , a body of water that is estimated at seventeen feet in depth . Ascending imperceptibly , this enormous mass flies on ...
... writer , darting di- rectly down upon the tropical seas , there is evaporated from their sur- face , within the year , a body of water that is estimated at seventeen feet in depth . Ascending imperceptibly , this enormous mass flies on ...
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... writer to plead , the work done is only that of the pioneer . Topographical distribu- tion , arranged according to the hy- grometrical features of the country , is necessary for the determination of the locality of those points of ...
... writer to plead , the work done is only that of the pioneer . Topographical distribu- tion , arranged according to the hy- grometrical features of the country , is necessary for the determination of the locality of those points of ...
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... writer to offer of the remainder of the ten natural hydrological provinces of England . In brief they are as follows : -No . 5 is the outfall district of the Test , the Avon , and the Stour , compara- tively short streams , with a south ...
... writer to offer of the remainder of the ten natural hydrological provinces of England . In brief they are as follows : -No . 5 is the outfall district of the Test , the Avon , and the Stour , compara- tively short streams , with a south ...
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Page 131 - Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads — The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds.
Page 132 - Why weep ye then for him, who, having won The bound of man's appointed years, at last, Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his final rest has passed; While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set...
Page 189 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
Page 174 - I GAZED upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round ; And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain turf should break.
Page 174 - Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down ; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave. And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Page 262 - This is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty; he that wrought Made it with dreams and faultless words and thought That seeks and finds and loses in the dense Dim air of life that beauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour of life distraught And all hours after follow and find not aught. Here is that height of all love's eminence Where man may breathe but for a...
Page 289 - An assemblage of learned men, zealous for their own sciences, and rivals of each other, are brought, by familiar intercourse and for the sake of intellectual peace, to adjust together the claims and relations of their respective subjects of investigation.
Page 9 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 14 - Can there be a more proper time to force them to maintain an army at their expense, than when that army is necessary for their own protection, and we are utterly unable to support it ? Lastly, can there be a more proper time for this mother country to leave off feeding out of her own vitals these children whom she has nursed up, than when they are arrived at such strength and maturity as to be well able to provide for themselves, and ought rather with filial duty to give some assistance to her distress...
Page 309 - I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done; and in absence are many errors, which I do willingly acknowledge ; and, amongst the rest, this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind.