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Bound Volume of Excerpts from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1850 - 1855)
Author: Bound Volume of Excerpts from "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine", April 1845 - February 1850
Author: Bound Volumes of Excerpts from 'Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine', Aug. 1845 - Mar. 1850
Author: Bound volume of excerpts from 'Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine', Sept. 1844 - Nov. 1849
Author: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 77
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266461418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 77: January June, 1855 Mark well the words that we have quoted in italics; for they contain, un consciously perhaps on the part of the utterer, a full confession of that shame ful and slavish truckling to public opinion which has always been the characteristic of the party of which the noble Lord is the leader. Is it possible that this can be a true state ment Is it credible that the Cabinet should have decided against the win tering of the army at Constantinople, for no better reason than that such an arrangement would have been a great disappointment to the people of this country Is it the function of an army to determine its own mo tions, or to regulate the scheme of a campaign? Yet such were the state ments deliberately made to the House of Commons by the great constitu tional authority 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 124
Author: John CaldigatePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365416692
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 124: July 1878 I daresay he is. He doesn't say. It's about business. Didn't you hear me say that I'd tell you another time? And so the old woman was turned out of the room, having seen the tear and heard the little gurgle in the throat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 78
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ISBN: 9781527653269
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 78: July-December, 1855 Jack Sheppard hrase, as innocent as the babe nu rn after his false imprisonment, what do we suppose that he would say? He would mo bably say that he had been drin 5 with some friend, name unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365447795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67: January-June, 1850 Ir the year 1848 m1: nun or monmoxs was one pro-eminent among all others for the magnitude and interest of the events it brought forth, the year which has just expired - mn mu or nuacrron - is still more worthy of serious reflection, and aflords subjects for more cheeriu meditation. If the first exhibits the whirlwind of anarchy let loose, the second showed the power by which it is restrained; if the former filled every heart with dread at the fierce passions which were developed, and the portentous events which occurred m the world, the latter afl'orded reason for profound thank fulness, at the silent but irresistible force with which Omnipotence over rules the wickedness of men, and re strains the madness of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 78
Author: William BlackwoodPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330328910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 777
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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 78: July December, 1855 He would surely not claim them as his property, far less to have them restored, thus owning himself not only guilty in reference to the past, but impenitent in reference to the future. And suppose that Russia had wished to prove herself innocent, through her mouthpiece Prince Gortchakoff, of burglarious intentions with respect to Turkey, what would she have said to the wiseacres of Vienna? She would have said something of this kind -Gentlemen, you do me cruel wrong by suspecting that I am actuated by any selfish motives of aggrandisement against Turkey, by imputing any other motive to me in recent transactions than a laudable desire to rescue oppressed Christianity from the delirious grip of the sick man-sick even onto death-who, notwithstanding his weakness, seems to possess some unaccountable and probably supernatural power of wrong-doing; but notwithstanding that you do me cruel wrong in suspecting my motives, I am willing to prove the purity of my intentions, if not by quite allowing you to draw my teeth and cut off my claws, at all events by promising to keep the former to myself and not allowing the latter to grow any longer, abstaining at the same time from sharpening them as heretofore against the nearest tree. In plain terms, I will not build any more ships of war than are just enough to patrol the Black Sea as a protection against pirates, to keep up military communications with Caucasus and Georgia, and to defend Odessa against any sudden freak of the said sick man, who appears, notwithstanding his weakness, to be in a normal state of dangerous delirium. By refusing all concession to this just demand of the Allies to give up the tools of her burglarious trade, or even to abstain from increasing their number, she at onceproclaimsdefinitely and distinctly that her object is to have Constantinople by fair means or foul; and in pursuance of this object, with the spirit of Ilamlet, to " make a ghost of him that lets" her. For what else should Russia want with a great fleet in the Black Sea, or with the fortifications of Sebastopol? It is plain that, if she had not looked to enlarging her territory to the south, even when the first stone of Sebastopol was laid, she would have made of it not a military so much as a commercial port. There would have been some sense in building an impregnable Gibraltar near the heart of her territory, or as, in the case of our own Mediterranean fortresses, on the high-road to outlying possessions; but there is only one evident purpose for which Sebastopol was built-namely, the shelter of an aggressive fleet. Its place on the map is enough to condemn it. It is just placed so that from it a blow could be struck most quickly and effectively on the vital parts of Turkey, and the fleet that had struck the blow most quickly and readily withdraw into shelter before the avenger came. Such a blow was struck at Sinope- might have been struck at Stamboul instead, if the allied fleet had lingered a little longer outside the Bosphorus. It was the recognition, on a large scale, of a principle applied on a small one in the art of self-defence, to spring quickly to the guard after having struck the punishing blow, and not to overbalance the body by the effort, so as to open it to the blow of the adversary in return. It is a wonder that there ever was any mistake about the meaning of Sebastopol. Russia might have found a better excuse for Bomar-sund. She might have said that Bomarsund was an outwork of Cronstadt, and that she was strengthening it against some contingent coalition of the three nations of maritime Scandinavia ; a coalition not altogether improbable at any time, and which we should think at present highly desirable. But how could she be menaced through the Crimea ? Any force invading her, and making for St Petersburg, would surely not begin there, nor would any nation build a firs...
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68
Author: W. Blackwood LtdPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483787216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68: July-December, 1850 Upox the page of history are in scribed the names of many great men, uncrowned, but more illustrious than most kings, whose biography essentially involves the records of their country and times. The cases are very rare in which this occurs of an entire lineage; when through several successive generations the same extraordinary qualities are transmitted, and the hero or states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.