The Gentleman's Magazine, 234. kötetF. Jefferies, 1873 |
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43. oldal
... horse in keeping the Apachés in order on the extreme borders of New Mexico . His fort is the nearest civilised point to the old Aztec towns , to which he gave me a very kind invitation , and a promise that if I came down he wonld escort ...
... horse in keeping the Apachés in order on the extreme borders of New Mexico . His fort is the nearest civilised point to the old Aztec towns , to which he gave me a very kind invitation , and a promise that if I came down he wonld escort ...
45. oldal
... horses on the line are changed every ten miles , and their appearance would do credit to the Windsor coach . They are driven most carefully , never exceeding five miles an hour , decidedly slow to passengers . One man drives about forty ...
... horses on the line are changed every ten miles , and their appearance would do credit to the Windsor coach . They are driven most carefully , never exceeding five miles an hour , decidedly slow to passengers . One man drives about forty ...
57. oldal
... horses each - the best that could be had , for we knew our lives would depend often on their running powers . We were then sent up the country to our detachment . The Rangers number in all about a thousand . Their head - quarters is St ...
... horses each - the best that could be had , for we knew our lives would depend often on their running powers . We were then sent up the country to our detachment . The Rangers number in all about a thousand . Their head - quarters is St ...
58. oldal
... horses were considerably better than theirs , so that we were safe enough if an arrow or a bullet did not go through our backs . They shoot their arrows with tremendous force . Once as we were galloping away from them I saw an arrow ...
... horses were considerably better than theirs , so that we were safe enough if an arrow or a bullet did not go through our backs . They shoot their arrows with tremendous force . Once as we were galloping away from them I saw an arrow ...
59. oldal
... horse and take a shot at you under the neck . Our fellows used to shoot at the neck of the horse and sometimes hit the Indian on the other side . Constant practice had made some of our men almost perfect . The usual way in these cases ...
... horse and take a shot at you under the neck . Our fellows used to shoot at the neck of the horse and sometimes hit the Indian on the other side . Constant practice had made some of our men almost perfect . The usual way in these cases ...
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324. oldal - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
648. oldal - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But with the motion of all elements Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power Above their functions and their offices.
311. oldal - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primoyenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by Degree stand in authentic place ? Take but Degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy.
315. oldal - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
313. oldal - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many ; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry, — why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
311. oldal - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
653. oldal - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
648. oldal - O thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
419. oldal - A fool, a fool ! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool ; — a miserable world : — As I do live by food, I met a fool ; Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, — and yet a motley fool. Good morrow, fool, quoth I : No, sir...
634. oldal - Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...