Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
pursuits, in respect of their operations on the moral insight of man, and finishes with the praise of the culture of the soil, in these words: "Omnium rerum ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agriculturâ meliùs, nihil uberiùs, nihil dulciùs, nihil homine libero digniùs."...
SAVOYARD, evidently understanding Pisistratus, rubs his face gently against the mice, then puts them softly down on a grave, and gives a turn to the hurdy-gurdy. The mice play u...
2. PART II.The reader is informed that "Life in the Far West" is _no fiction_. The scenes and incidents described are strictly true. The characters are real, (the names being changed in tw...
6. CHAPTER XII.We had taken the precaution to send, the day before, to secure our due complement of places--four in all (including one for Mrs Primmins)--in, or upon, the fast family coach cal...
4. CHAPTER X.Uncle Roland was gone. Before he went, he was closeted for an hour with my father, who then accompanied him to the gate; and we all crowded round him as he stepped into his chai...
7. CHAPTER XIII.I am apt--judging egotistically, perhaps, from my own experience--to measure a young man's chances of what is termed practical success in life, by what may seem at first two ver...
1. i. 42,) in which he reprobates, more or less, all commercialpursuits, in respect of their operations on the moral insight of man, and finishes with the praise of the culture of the soil, in these words: "Omnium rerum ex quibus aliquid ac...
5. CHAPTER XI."Are the odds in favour of fame against failure so great? You do not speak, I fear, from experience, brother Jack," answered my father, as he stooped down to tickle the duck und...
3. CHAPTER IX.I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning, day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom, and purity, and freshness. The youth of nature is contagi...