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... writes with marked ability and verve on the artists who have come after the Impressionists of his earlier days . In Impressions of Congress ' Mr. Sydney Brooks brings out very well the free and easy manners of American politicians as ...
... writes with marked ability and verve on the artists who have come after the Impressionists of his earlier days . In Impressions of Congress ' Mr. Sydney Brooks brings out very well the free and easy manners of American politicians as ...
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... writes of a dinner given by Alderman Wilcox in the city in the summer of 1680 , " at which Oates and Tonge " disputed their respective claims to the proprietorship of the plot . " It is certain that no person named Wilcox has ever been ...
... writes of a dinner given by Alderman Wilcox in the city in the summer of 1680 , " at which Oates and Tonge " disputed their respective claims to the proprietorship of the plot . " It is certain that no person named Wilcox has ever been ...
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... writes in his English Church in the Nine- teenth Century ' ( 1910 : at II . v . 97 ) : -- · 6 " In February , 1830 , the Bradford Society for Promoting Temperance , ' the first society to which the name Teetotal ' ( i.e. ' total ' ) was ...
... writes in his English Church in the Nine- teenth Century ' ( 1910 : at II . v . 97 ) : -- · 6 " In February , 1830 , the Bradford Society for Promoting Temperance , ' the first society to which the name Teetotal ' ( i.e. ' total ' ) was ...
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... writes : - " A curious feature found in many churchyards from the twelfth to the fourteenth century , especially in France , is the so - called lanterne des morts , a stone erection sometimes 20 or 30 feet high , surmounted by a lantern ...
... writes : - " A curious feature found in many churchyards from the twelfth to the fourteenth century , especially in France , is the so - called lanterne des morts , a stone erection sometimes 20 or 30 feet high , surmounted by a lantern ...
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... writes in his English Church in the Nine- teenth Century ' ( 1910 : at II . v . 97 ) : - 6 : -- " In February , 1830 , the Bradford Society for Promoting Temperance , ' the first society to which the name Teetotal ' ( i.e. ' total ...
... writes in his English Church in the Nine- teenth Century ' ( 1910 : at II . v . 97 ) : - 6 : -- " In February , 1830 , the Bradford Society for Promoting Temperance , ' the first society to which the name Teetotal ' ( i.e. ' total ...
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Página 8 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread, Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Página 35 - Wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
Página 116 - THERE was a little girl, who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead, And when she was good, she was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid.
Página 196 - Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not— Plays, in the many games of life, that one...
Página 183 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Página 369 - Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield ! XXXV.
Página 397 - For good undone and gifts misspent and resolutions vain, Tis somewhat late to trouble. This I know— I should live the same life over, if I had to live again; And the chances are I go where most men go.
Página 66 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Página 44 - recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. He forgets neither friend nor foe, remembers, and with accuracy, both benefit and injury. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation ; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor : he is the friend of man, save...
Página 301 - These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.