Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

Having disposed of two grand categories of mistakes and absurdities in house-building, viz., lightness of structure and badness of material, we shall now address ourselves more...

"'He is dead,' replied his brother, 'and you have deified him. 'Tis the way of the world. He had great qualities; he died like a brave man, and I have forgiven him. But then he...

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And now for the plan of your mansion, for the Ground Plan--the main part of the business, that, on the proper proportioning and arranging of which the success of your edificativ...

"Frank and free were the dames of the ninth Charles's court. Faithless in the virtues of the relic, feverishly excited by the novelty of his situation, and by the preference the...

The unhappy rabble seemed to be suffering the pangs of most cruel privation when the cortege arrived at the residence of justice, and they found themselves left in the lurch at...

We must acknowledge that Sir George Simpson would have much improved his volumes by striking out the whole of this description. It is evident that he was received with civilitie...

Few sovereigns have been more diversely judged than Mahmood, the father of the present Sultan. Lauded to the skies by some, lowered to the dust by others, he died before Europe...

After a while the contents of the chests, and even the chests themselves--esteemed by the Tahitians most valuable pieces of furniture--were given or bartered away, and, as the C...

When Boucha, the intendant of the district, heard of the performances of Isabella Vincent, he had her brought before him. She replied to his interrogatories, that people had oft...

At last they arrive at the Lena. This is described as one of the grandest rivers in the world. At a distance of thirteen hundred versts from the sea, (three versts are equal to...

At last, one happy day--happy in its result, not in the complexion it bore at its opening--we positively did receive orders for a start, and this is the way it came about: The r...

Egnatius's teeth are very white, And therefore is he ever grinning: Let pleaders in the court excite All hearts to weep--from the beginning E'en to the end he laughs. The while...

"One cannot pass through this fair valley without feeling that it is destined to become, sooner or later, the happy home of civilised men, with their bleating flocks, and their...

What is the composition of these two portions of the seed? How much do they respectively contain of the several constituents of the animal body? How much of each is contained al...

If you, Cominius, old, defiled With every vice, contemn'd, and hoary, From your vile life were once exiled, Your carcass beasts would mar--grim, wild. Vultures that tongue, defa...

As soon as I gained footing, splashed with mud from head to foot, I remained a moment motionless, and almost petrified with astonishment. All was changed around me: the enchante...

Our host conceived it to be a duty incumbent on him to develop, on this occasion, the full power of the resources of Adalia. We should have been far better satisfied if he had c...

The form of trance which specially dominated in witchcraft was trance-sleep with visions. The graduates and candidates in the faculty sought to fall into trances, in the dreams...

Those who have read M. Herman Melville's former work will remember, those who have not are informed by the introduction to the present one, that the author, an educated American...

Touching the proceedings on board the French man-of-war, its imperfect discipline, and the strange, un-nautical way of carrying on the duty, Typee is jocular and satirical. Amer...

Poacher, the, or Jutland 130 years since, from the Danish. --I. The Deer Rider, 286. --II. Ansbjerg, 289. --III. The Nisse, 292. --IV. The Elopement, 297. --V. The Horse Garden,...