Principles of Blackwood's Magazine
Anon
Genre: | Extract. Miscellaneous |
Publications extracted: | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine |
Subjects: | Astronomy, Time, Cosmology, Eschatology |
In an extract from the 'Noctes Ambrosianæ', the Ettrick Shepherd [James Hogg] charges Christopher North [John Wilson] with editing a magazine that has been 'deludin' and distracktin' men and women folk, till it's impossible for them to ken [...] if the Millennium be really close at haun'—or the present Solar System be calculated to last to a' eternity'. |
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