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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 45: January-June, 1839About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 45: January-June, 1839About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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...

Excerpt from The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, Vol. 8: June 1837-March 1838X. Tables of the Revenue, the Prices of Grain, Butcher Meat, and Wool, of the Monthly Returns of Foreign Corn, Fiars Prices for Crop 1836, aw.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-ar...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: January-June, 1848Average of the five years ending 1807 - last of the slave trade, Average of the five years ending 1815 - date of the Registry Act, Average of the five years ending 1823 - date of Canning's Resolution, Average of the five years ending 1833 - last five of slavery, Average of the five years ending 1843 - first five of freedom.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46: July-December, 1839A change, however, soon becomes perceptible as we advance into the reign of Louis XV. In religion, the fervency and unction which give an appearance of inspiration to many of the compositions of Bossuet on subjects of Christian belief, were succeeded by a school of pulpit eloquence, in which morality, cha rity, or the performance of duty, were more insisted on than faith,...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 55: January-June, 1844On reaching San Espada We held a discussion as to the propriety of re~ maining there until the general came up, or of advancing at once towards the river. Wharton inclined to the former plan, and it was certainly the most prudent, for the mission was a strong building, surrounded by a high wall, and might have been held against very superior numbers. Farming and I, however...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 123: January-June, 1878You will give three great strong cheers for his lordship, and three more for Miss Esme, and three more for the ladies and gentlemen - that is nine altogether, and let there be no mistakes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical wo...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 62: July-December, 1847Spanish government to take out in hrs ships, encouraged this opinion, in order to buy up the emeralds as their market value declined. The specie, however, was of immense amount, if the authority just quoted may be depended upon. He talks of two hundred thousand casfellanos, the commercial value of which was equi valent to more than half a million sterling. This from one v...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 109: January June, 1871Henry or Harry John Temple, fourth and last Viscount Palmerston of the peerage Of Ireland, was born on the 2oth Of October 1784. He derived his descent from the young er brother Of that distinguished Sir William Temple who had Sw'ift for his protege, and William III. For his friend. He received his early education partly in Italy - in which country his father, a man of gr...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 170: July-December, 1901Robert Tullis, when I knew him many years later, was a silent, gaunt man, but that may have been because he had so much to remember. This night he discovered himself a new creature to his neighbours. He was standing across his own door when the crowd arrived. It's up wi' the souters o' the Bowes, he welcomed them, and jeered them to the garden end. With his frank and sup...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68: July-December, 1850Francis of Lorraine was eighteen years old when slain at Pavia. Brothers had fallen, at about the same age, at the battle of Marignano.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology ...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 63: January-June, 1848Opposition, for two years, and when at length the evil had risen to such a height that it could no longer be endured, the leading agitator, after being convicted in Ireland, was libe rated, in opposition to the opinion of a great majority of the twelve judges, by the casting-vote in the House of Peers of a Whig law-lord. British liberality, when the season of distress came...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 63: January-June, 1848We first reduced to a half of its former amount the protective duty on foreign slave-grown sugar, and then, b the act of 1846, in pursuance of Sir Peel's principles, and with his approbation, passed an act for the progressive reduction, during three years, of the duties on foreign sugar, until, in 1849, these on foreign, and colonial were to become equal to each other! Tha...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 48: July-December, 1840Athird oint is larger. Here (pro perly spea ing) our quarrel is co-ex tenstve with that general principle in England which tends in all things to set the matter above the manner, the substance above the external show, a principle noble in itself, but inevi tably wrong wherever the manner blends inseparably with the substance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hu...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 63: January-June, 1848We first reduced to a half of its former amount the protective duty on foreign slave-grown sugar, and then, b the act of 1846, in pursuance of Sir Peel's principles, and with his approbation, passed an act for the progressive reduction, during three years, of the duties on foreign sugar, until, in 1849, these on foreign, and colonial were to become equal to each other! Tha...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 48: July-December, 1840Athird oint is larger. Here (pro perly spea ing) our quarrel is co-ex tenstve with that general principle in England which tends in all things to set the matter above the manner, the substance above the external show, a principle noble in itself, but inevi tably wrong wherever the manner blends inseparably with the substance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hu...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70: July-December, 1851Pisistratus. Perfectly clear, sir, but I don't see what it has to do with My N ovel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the o...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70: July-December, 1851Pisistratus. Perfectly clear, sir, but I don't see what it has to do with My N ovel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the o...

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46: July-December, 1839A change, however, soon becomes perceptible as we advance into the reign of Louis XV. In religion, the fervency and unction which give an a¥pearance of inspiration to many d the compositions of Bossuet on subjects of Christian belief, were succeeded by a school of pulpit eloquence, in which morality, cha rity, or the performance of duty, were more insisted on than faith, ...