Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69William Blackwood, 1851 |
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Pagina 1
... Rome , " Alison's Essays , vol . iii . p . 440 . VOL . LXIX.-NO. CCCCXXIII . exhaustion of the auriferous veins in Spain and Greece near. No. CCCCXXIII . VOL . LXIX . WHOEVER has examined with at- tention the past anuals of mankind ...
... Rome , " Alison's Essays , vol . iii . p . 440 . VOL . LXIX.-NO. CCCCXXIII . exhaustion of the auriferous veins in Spain and Greece near. No. CCCCXXIII . VOL . LXIX . WHOEVER has examined with at- tention the past anuals of mankind ...
Pagina 2
... Rome and Carthage , on which depended whether Europe or Africa was to become the mistress of the civilised world , was in reality determined by a great extension of the Italian circulating medium during the second Punic war ; and that ...
... Rome and Carthage , on which depended whether Europe or Africa was to become the mistress of the civilised world , was in reality determined by a great extension of the Italian circulating medium during the second Punic war ; and that ...
Pagina 3
... Rome , im- pregnable to the assaults of undis- ciplined barbarians , yielded , at the appointed season , to the contraction of its domestic currency , which ren- dered the maintenance of armaments adequate to the public defence a matter ...
... Rome , im- pregnable to the assaults of undis- ciplined barbarians , yielded , at the appointed season , to the contraction of its domestic currency , which ren- dered the maintenance of armaments adequate to the public defence a matter ...
Pagina 5
... Rome in its latter days , where , while the weight of debts and taxes doubled . the legions dwindled into cohorts from The fatal increase in the value and the impossibility of finding funds to power of riches , so truly felt and pay ...
... Rome in its latter days , where , while the weight of debts and taxes doubled . the legions dwindled into cohorts from The fatal increase in the value and the impossibility of finding funds to power of riches , so truly felt and pay ...
Pagina 55
... Rome still remains with its Tiber , and , in the minds of most sane persons , Romulus also , we imagine ; while the great Julius shines a kingly star every inch , as much after Niebuhr's strong brush as before . What , then , was the ...
... Rome still remains with its Tiber , and , in the minds of most sane persons , Romulus also , we imagine ; while the great Julius shines a kingly star every inch , as much after Niebuhr's strong brush as before . What , then , was the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 518 - UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope...
Pagina 444 - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Pagina 518 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Pagina 529 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Pagina 577 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Pagina 443 - ... to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of State, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Pagina 518 - O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be!
Pagina 133 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Pagina 519 - Halfway up the stairs it stands, And points and beckons with its hands From its case of massive oak, Like a monk, who, under his cloak, Crosses himself, and sighs, alas ' With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Pagina 443 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.