Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846

I confess I shall never forgive myself for having patiently, nay somewhat greedily, swallowed such monstrous and glaring trash as that above related, and for having been cajoled...

The conclusion of our first notice of "The Americans and the Aborigines," saw Hodges, the midshipman, on his way to the Mississippi, and, if he could find it, to his ship; whils...

"What has become of Coco?" asked we of an _orefice, three years later_, on finding ourselves a second time in Naples, and nothing doubting, as he had not been to visit us, that...

"His ears are open and his heart large," replied the young chief gravely. "Are the words of the great Miko for El Sol alone, or may the warriors of the Comanches and Pawnees als...

He left me and I sallied forth; first to Mrs Twisleton's, who at first was not at home, but, receiving my card, sent her servant running half a mile, to assure me that she was....

We do not say that any joining together of houses should take place in country, nor even in suburban residences. No; there let every man have a house to himself; the foundation...

It is now forty years since I found myself, for the first time in my life, in the once fashionable city of Bath. I had accompanied thither from London a dear friend from whom I...

Now, what is the end, object, and use of all habitations, houses, tenements, and premises whatsoever in this same united kingdom of our's, and in this glorious nineteenth centur...

"If we would know," says M. Michelet, "the inmost thought, the passion of the French _Peasant_, it is very easy. Walk any Sunday into the country, and follow him. Look! he is yo...

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Yes--the thing has come to pass in Africa, at Tahiti, on the coast of Madagascar, whence the savages repulsed, with vindictive hatred, their French invaders, and refused even to...

From out of the dark cypress forest that stretches southwards from the shore of the Atchafalaya, a figure had emerged which judging from its dress, belonged to the Indian race....

The biography of Adam Smith gives Lord Brougham an opportunity of pouring out, at the distance of nearly half a century, that knowledge of Political Economy which first brought...

These walls confess'd, long ages flown, Strange tidings of the world unknown; And dark the boding wonder fell, With signal of the midnight bell: For ever, as in solemn row, The...

So early as the days of Tiberius, the abstraction of the gold and silver currency of the empire by the incessant drain of foreign commerce, was loudly complained of by the Roman...

"Now Pentecost, the feast, by some Call'd 'merry Whitsuntide,' was come! The fields show'd brave, with kingcups dight, And hawthorns kercheft were in white: Her low-breathed lut...

This constant tendency of wealth, in the later periods of the Roman empire, to accumulate in the hands of the great capitalists, accompanied by the progressive deterioration of...

But D'Alembert had evidently a passion for science; and in his twenty-third year he sent to the Academy of Sciences an analytical paper, which attracted general notice. This was...

These instances will be sufficient to show the general character of the Arabic receipts. Saltpetre is used in all of them--in most of them sulphur or charcoal; while arsenic, in...

"The strongest proof of the _wealth and prosperity of the_ CITIES _of Greece_, even in the last days of the empire, is to be found in the circumstance of their being able to fit...

Equally futile is it to point to the weight of the taxes as the main cause of the long decline and final overthrow of Rome. Taxes no doubt are an evil; and if they become excess...

But new hazards, arising alike from the imperfect condition of the vessel and their ignorance of the coast, continued to pursue them. Never was a voyage attempted with greater d...

It's all for the best, Chap. I, 230 --Chap. II., 234 --Chap. III., 238 --Chap. IV., 242 --Chap. V., 245 --Chap. VI., 319 --Chap. VII., 320 --Chap. VIII., the squire's tale, 323...