Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 410, December 1849Various
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 410, December 1849
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
in the English cottage, which she could not have been expected again
to show to the inmate of the French palace. We are guarded, then, in
the expression of our regret, that one who, by the pursuit of purely
personal objects, has been the cause of great calamities to his native
land, should still indulge his dynastic ambition at the expense of the
tranquillity of another country, previously indebted to him for much
discord and misery. And we deem it a painful sight when a man whose
years already exceed the average span of human existence is still
engrossed by plans of unscrupulous aggrandisement, still busied with
Machiavelian intrigues, still absorbed in the baser things of earth,
instead of addressing himself to considerations of higher import,
earning by his virtues in adversity that respect refused to his conduct
in prosperity, and passing the last days of his life--the posthumous
ones of his royalty--resigned, revered, and beloved, like one who
preceded him on his throne and in his banishment, and whose name was on
his lips in the hour of his fall.
THE GREEN HAND.
A "SHORT" YARN.--PART VI.
"Well, ma'am," continued the naval man, on again resuming his
narrative, "as I told you, the sudden hail of 'Land!' brought us all
on deck in a twinkling, in the midst of my ticklish conversation with
the Judge." "Hallo! you aloft!" shouted the chief officer himself, "d'ye
hear, sirrah! use your eyes before hailing the deck!" "Land, sir!" came
falling down again out of the sunlight; "land it is, sir,--broad away
on our larboard bow, sir."
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