The Army and Navy QuarterlyL. R. Hamersly & Company, 1881 - 498 páginas |
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Página 431 - And both, with moons and tides. Nothing hath got so far, But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star ; He is, in little, all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there.
Página 444 - And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
Página 44 - Professor, in a suit of rusty, not to say seedy black, with a closely buttoned vest, and no perceptible shirt-collar or wristbands. His nose was red, : his spectacles were blue, and he wore a brown wig, beneath which, as I subsequently ascertained, his bald head was laid off in lots, marked and numbered with Indian ink, after the manner of the diagram upon his advertisement. Upon a small table lay many little books with yellow covers, several of the placards, pen and ink, a pair of iron callipers...
Página 47 - ... me a handsome literary notice, I shall be pleased to furnish a presentation copy to each of the little Pioneer children. PS I regret to add that having just read this article to Mrs. Phoenix, and asked her opinion thereon, she replied, that " if a first-rate magazine article were represented by 100, she should judge this to be about 13 ; or if the quintessence of stupidity were 100, she should take this to be in the neighborhood of 96.
Página 50 - Judge" was on board. Public anxiety had been excited to the highest pitch to witness the result of the meeting between us. It had been stated publicly that "the Judge" would whip us the moment he arrived; but though we thought a conflict probable, we had never been very sanguine as to its terminating in this manner. Coolly we gazed from the window of the Office upon the New Town road; we descried a cloud of dust in the distance; high above it waved a whip lash, and we said, "the Judge" cometh, and...
Página 51 - down over the Press by our nose (which we had inserted between his teeth for that purpose), and while our hair was employed in holding one of his hands, we held the other in our left, and with the " sheep's foot " brandished above our head, shouted to him,
Página 256 - A preparation of the phosphates of lime, magnesia, potash and iron with phosphoric acid, in such form as to be readily assimilated by the system.
Página 41 - ... accidentally loaded. Such proved to be the case ; the marks of three buckshot were found in my hat, and a shower of screws, broken lenses and pieces of brass, which shortly 'fell around us, told where the ball had struck, and bore fearful testimony to the accuracy of Dr. Dunshunner's practice. Believing these experiments more curious than useful, I abandoned the use of the "Heliotrope...
Página 360 - You shall be free," they would have scoffed at me, and it would have been taken as a sign of fear on my part ; yet every one of those men were owned by individuals, and if I take them from the owner I must pay the owner. Smart, dapper-looking fellows like antelopes, fierce, unsparing, the terror of Central Africa, having a prestige far beyond that of the Government : these are the slave-dealers
Página 47 - The young man noticed the action, and 73 proudly drawing back, added — "Do not thank me; the pleasure of gazing for an instant at those 100 eyes (perhaps too exaggerated a compliment), has already more than compensated me for any trouble that I might have had.