The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 94Archibald Constable and Company, 1824 |
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... ther or not it is well - founded in the law of the country ; and recollecting that , whether right or not , it will re- gulate future judgments , it ought next to be considered what should be the remedy of so great an evil as the ...
... ther or not it is well - founded in the law of the country ; and recollecting that , whether right or not , it will re- gulate future judgments , it ought next to be considered what should be the remedy of so great an evil as the ...
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... ther , according to the Statute 1685 , an entailer could bind the institute , but whether , in particular instances , he had actually bound him . We may further add , that the Roman law was much more prevalent in this country in 1685 ...
... ther , according to the Statute 1685 , an entailer could bind the institute , but whether , in particular instances , he had actually bound him . We may further add , that the Roman law was much more prevalent in this country in 1685 ...
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... ther measure . Yet now despair itself is mild , Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child , And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear , Till death like sleep might steal on me , And ...
... ther measure . Yet now despair itself is mild , Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child , And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear , Till death like sleep might steal on me , And ...
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... ther from the earth's centre . The globular form of the earth is still more satisfactorily proved by the va- riation in the mid - day altitudes of VOL . XV . the sun , and the meridian altitudes of all the other heavenly bodies , when ...
... ther from the earth's centre . The globular form of the earth is still more satisfactorily proved by the va- riation in the mid - day altitudes of VOL . XV . the sun , and the meridian altitudes of all the other heavenly bodies , when ...
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... ther , and if I was not well " speaned " yet ? I shrunk from their familia- rity , and plied my work with a sick heart . One young man , apparently about two or three years older than myself , perceived my distress , spoke to me kindly ...
... ther , and if I was not well " speaned " yet ? I shrunk from their familia- rity , and plied my work with a sick heart . One young man , apparently about two or three years older than myself , perceived my distress , spoke to me kindly ...
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Page 80 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 266 - Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Page 313 - I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; — 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Page 35 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
Page 16 - WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
Page 16 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 266 - I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
Page 17 - How shall ever one like me Win thee back again? With the joyous and the free Thou wilt scoff at pain. Spirit false! thou hast forgot All but those who need thee not. As a lizard with the shade Of a trembling leaf, Thou with sorrow art dismayed; Even the sighs of grief Reproach thee, that thou art not near, And reproach thou wilt not hear.
Page 266 - Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you ; do this in remembrance of me. Likewise after supper he took the cup; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many, for the remission of sins; do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.
Page 259 - Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do: because I go to the Father.