The Strand Magazine, Volum 21Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith G. Newnes, 1901 |
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Side 512 - And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, " Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, " Art thou an Ephraimite? " If he said, " Nay," then said they unto him, " Say now Shibboleth "; and he said, "Sibboleth"; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan.
Side lvi - A new invention Is brought before the public, and commands success. A score of abominable imitations are immediately introduced by the unscrupulous, whoj in copying the original closely enough to deceive the public, and yet not so exactly as to infringe upon legal rights, exercise an ingenuity that, employed in an original channel, could not fail to secure reputation and profit.
Side 511 - Lancaster, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Trade, Vice-President of Privy Council, the Postmaster-General, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the President of the Poor Law Board.
Side 281 - The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another; and if the equal sides be produced the angles on the other side of the base shall be equal to one another.
Side 434 - Words are wanting to express the exquisite delight it afforded to the admiring crowded audience. The sublime, the grand, and the tender, adapted to the most elevated, majestic and moving words, conspired to transport and charm the ravished heart and ear.
Side 504 - Over me, around me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal; that which was before the beginning, and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence — the infinite and final Night of space. The sense of solitude and desolation became the sense of an overwhelming presence that stooped towards me, that almost touched me. "No,
Side liv - Is warranted to cleanse the blood from all impurities from whatever cause arising For Scrofula, Scurvy, Sores of all kinds, Skin and Blood Diseases, its effects are marvellous.
Side 36 - ... spreading a whorl of tiny, spiky, brownish leaves, that lengthened rapidly, lengthened visibly even as we watched. The movement was slower than any animal's, swifter than any plant's I have ever seen before. How can I suggest it to you — the way that growth went on? The leaf tips grew so that they moved onward even while we looked at them. The brown seed-case shrivelled and was absorbed with an equal rapidity. Have you ever on a cold day taken a thermometer into your warm hand and watched the...
Side lvi - Remedy for Preventing and Curing by Natural Means all Functional Derangements of the Liver, Temporary Congestion arising from Alcoholic Beverages, Errors in Diet, Biliousness...
Side 280 - It's the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right, and the moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons — now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now it whirls you off to desolation and misery ! " " Anyhow, it's no use your quarrelling with me now.