Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen4W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... considered more than a mode- rate , but rather less than a great rain , it is always classed as a moderate rain , and the same rule when it is doubtful whether it should be short or moderate , it being in this case termed a short rain ...
... considered more than a mode- rate , but rather less than a great rain , it is always classed as a moderate rain , and the same rule when it is doubtful whether it should be short or moderate , it being in this case termed a short rain ...
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... considered . " The method of finding the sum of rain in a season is this : Taking an extreme case for an example , winter 1804-5 , it had 5 great rains , 12 moderate , and 25 short rains ; the great rains are each supposed equal to 6 ...
... considered . " The method of finding the sum of rain in a season is this : Taking an extreme case for an example , winter 1804-5 , it had 5 great rains , 12 moderate , and 25 short rains ; the great rains are each supposed equal to 6 ...
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... considered , in order completely to appreciate the extent of the advantage which result- ed from that gallery which was so cleverly executed . We have seen that the lake rose daily , during its execu- tion , nearly two feet . After ...
... considered , in order completely to appreciate the extent of the advantage which result- ed from that gallery which was so cleverly executed . We have seen that the lake rose daily , during its execu- tion , nearly two feet . After ...
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... considered proba- ble ; for though the number of ice- bergs were , in the present latitude , as at Riskoll , Waygatt Island , and Black Hook , almost beyond belief , yet the field ice appeared by no means so close as to stop their ...
... considered proba- ble ; for though the number of ice- bergs were , in the present latitude , as at Riskoll , Waygatt Island , and Black Hook , almost beyond belief , yet the field ice appeared by no means so close as to stop their ...
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... considered as at market , as the small quantities of produce left in the islands is scarcely worth taking into account . The quantity in the London ware- houses is about 4000 less than at the same period of last year . It is therefore ...
... considered as at market , as the small quantities of produce left in the islands is scarcely worth taking into account . The quantity in the London ware- houses is about 4000 less than at the same period of last year . It is therefore ...
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Página 54 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Página 257 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods.
Página 256 - My Friend! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and chearful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Página 259 - That oaten pipe of hers is mute, Or thrown away; but with a flute Her loneliness she cheers: This flute, made of a hemlock stalk, At evening in his homeward walk The Quantock woodman hears.
Página 213 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower ' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 142 - My constant reflections on the inconvenient, or rather injurious rites, introduced by the peculiar practice of Hindoo idolatry, which, more than any other pagan worship, destroys the texture of society, together with compassion for my countrymen, have compelled me to use every possible effort to awaken them from their dream of error: and by making them acquainted with their scriptures, enable them to contemplate with true devotion the unity and omnipresence of Nature's God..
Página 146 - I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Página 158 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 147 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Página 257 - Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves. Farewell, farewell, the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.