Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 103W. Blackwood, 1868 |
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Page 37
... Scotland and North America . While the work in all other parts of Polynesia progresses systematically and favourably , in the New Hebrides Mission the result has not been so satisfactory , which is however not at all surpris- ing ...
... Scotland and North America . While the work in all other parts of Polynesia progresses systematically and favourably , in the New Hebrides Mission the result has not been so satisfactory , which is however not at all surpris- ing ...
Page 112
... Scotland . It must not be supposed , however , that there are not , and have not been , any difficulties in the way of giving to the poorer classes in America this minimum of instruction , which Mr Mann deemed so essential , or that the ...
... Scotland . It must not be supposed , however , that there are not , and have not been , any difficulties in the way of giving to the poorer classes in America this minimum of instruction , which Mr Mann deemed so essential , or that the ...
Page 116
... Scotland , and intro- duced long before the Puritans founded the colony of Massachu- setts Bay , is greatly superior to that bestowed upon the Americans ; but it has not made an America out of North Britain , though it has cer- tainly ...
... Scotland , and intro- duced long before the Puritans founded the colony of Massachu- setts Bay , is greatly superior to that bestowed upon the Americans ; but it has not made an America out of North Britain , though it has cer- tainly ...
Page 203
... Scotland . The newly - imported German family , which scarcely pretended to love or sympathise with its new subjects , was totally unbeloved by them . Mere policy , and nothing else , an act of national necessity , despera- tion , so to ...
... Scotland . The newly - imported German family , which scarcely pretended to love or sympathise with its new subjects , was totally unbeloved by them . Mere policy , and nothing else , an act of national necessity , despera- tion , so to ...
Page 224
... Scotland ; and that the owners of these lands claim the right to hold them in their own families if they please , to sell them if so disposed , or to let them for such rental as they can get . Under these circum- stances every Irish ...
... Scotland ; and that the owners of these lands claim the right to hold them in their own families if they please , to sell them if so disposed , or to let them for such rental as they can get . Under these circum- stances every Irish ...
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