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... for a Russian. who could hang a Zouave; and it must be a bad business, indeed, if he could not satisfy anybody w~ho could speak French, of the parity of his motives, and, in all probability, turned his intended punishmnent into-a re- wayd. The. tales ...

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... they have lost their' urchasers the great ons have swelled into) Babylons because b they have tripled theirs, Politically speaking the a chang has been of incalculable importance. The n landed p'opriotors have ceased to influence the small boroughis, because ...

ORIGINAL POETRY

... ignorant past, Young labour wan passive and weak, And in spite of his temples and pyramids vast, None deignled of lis mecrits to speak; For thc sword of tho slayer was then of more worth Than thic tool of an nrtizan's trade, When destruction nlone could inherit ...

Literature

... carefully-prepared di- gest of all that is noteworthy in the literary world during the intervals of its publication. Properly speaking, this is the great object of a Review; but, singularly enough, it has been for yeurs almost ig- nored by all the ?? Quarterlies ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... lady 7 She tried to speak once-twice-thrice-but could not. A flood of tears saved her from choking. Nejib had now come up. W'all'lah ! how came you by this Woman, son of a karmal !- He is our servant, sobbed the lady. Speak !-speak I say, son -of Sheitan ...

Literature

... not like the petty palaces of Northern princes. One of the most observant of those Spanirrds, who first saw these wonders, speaks of a palace of Montezuma's in which there was a room where three thousand persons could be well accommodated, and on the ...

Literature

... as possible from all comiment upon tbem. Like most Frenchmen M. Fleury sympathises strongly with . the Stuart family. lie speaks of Jamee 1H. rather more as a martyr than we are in the habit of considering him, and his Jacobite :principles show themselves ...

Literature

... our author when lie says, ?? is ungentlemanly to speak of 'Buiwer's last Novel,'' and suggests that we should say in preference, Sir E'dward 'Bulwer Lytton's.n This 'rmay be an ini- proxe4 way. of speaking, 'but to our mind, it seems, if. we may . hazard ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... accord- ingly I am not aware that any of his efforts, however able and successful, have deserved, as examples of pub- lic speaking, to survive the occasion. His manner, though far from graceful, is earnest and impressive. It has a steady and natural warmth ...

Literature

... periodical of its class should be. The recent change in the Administration of our Anglo-Indian empire affords a writer, who speaks authoritatively, because from observation and experienee in the east, an opportunity of estimating the character and attain- ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... costrasts remarkably with the excitement and hubbub too often witnessed in tile Hlouse of Representatives, wilen fifty members speak at once, resolutions are passed cwithout. con- sidetation, and personal rencontres take place before the Speaker's chair. Mr ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... gurlles, on0e wide as the Gut of Gibraltar, clogged up like a canal in' the neighbour- hood of a railroad. Sisepsatrd. As for speaking in sic a condition, every- body hlit yoursel' kens it's inmpossible, and wvulner to hear ye tryin't. But you'll no be persavuaded ...