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... mean - looking parish church has , with the help of a few tools and a little patience , been made to reveal strange glimpses of a beauty all unforeshadowed in the stories of the oldest remaining villager . But of any wholly new ...
... mean - looking parish church has , with the help of a few tools and a little patience , been made to reveal strange glimpses of a beauty all unforeshadowed in the stories of the oldest remaining villager . But of any wholly new ...
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... means of learning the truth , should continue to accept for truth the very fallacies which seem most untenable to candid eyes ! The watchword of a party becomes with them a matter of practical belief . All their lives they have been ...
... means of learning the truth , should continue to accept for truth the very fallacies which seem most untenable to candid eyes ! The watchword of a party becomes with them a matter of practical belief . All their lives they have been ...
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... means , and to adapt his style to the special requirements of site , pur- pose , and economy . Nor is even his great experience needed to prove to any impartial thinker , that Gothic art is not inevi- tably dearer than French or Italian ...
... means , and to adapt his style to the special requirements of site , pur- pose , and economy . Nor is even his great experience needed to prove to any impartial thinker , that Gothic art is not inevi- tably dearer than French or Italian ...
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... means of oaken paneling , polished floors , and prisonlike windows ; not to name the lesser grievances of stiff upright chairs , grim cabinets , and obtrusive chimney - pieces . Drawn perhaps from Carisbrook ruins , the " Castle of ...
... means of oaken paneling , polished floors , and prisonlike windows ; not to name the lesser grievances of stiff upright chairs , grim cabinets , and obtrusive chimney - pieces . Drawn perhaps from Carisbrook ruins , the " Castle of ...
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... mean , obtrusive , and out of place . But look at those decorated windows , large and massy , and glorious with flowing tracery , that run along the sides of Exeter eathedral , or those noble specimens of perpendicular that light up the ...
... mean , obtrusive , and out of place . But look at those decorated windows , large and massy , and glorious with flowing tracery , that run along the sides of Exeter eathedral , or those noble specimens of perpendicular that light up the ...
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Página 219 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Página 388 - In her right hand the lily, in her left The letter — all her bright hair streaming down — And all the coverlid was cloth of gold Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white All but her face, and that clear-featured face Was lovely, for she did not seem as dead, But fast asleep, and lay as tho
Página 398 - To learning and to loyalty were bred : For colleges on bounteous kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend.
Página 179 - A History of England, from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603-1642.
Página 83 - ... with their reflections and observations upon every piece of intelligence that is sent us from abroad. The text is given us by one set of writers, and the comment by another. But notwithstanding we have the same tale told us in so many different papers, and, if occasion requires, in so many articles of the same paper ; notwithstanding, in a scarcity of foreign posts, we hear the same story repeated by different...
Página 193 - to my end.' His end was worthy of his life. His intellect was not for a moment clouded. His fortitude was the more admirable because he was not willing to die. He had very lately said to one of those whom he most loved, ' You know that I never feared death ; there have been times when I should have wished it, but, now that this great new prospect is opening before me, I do wish to stay here a little longer.
Página 464 - ... Confederation, and of the Swiss Constitution previous to 1847. It was tried in America for a few years immediately following the War of Independence. The other principle is that of the existing Constitution of the United States, and has been adopted within the last dozen years by the Swiss Confederacy. The Federal Congress of the American Union is a substantive part of the government of every individual State. Within the limits of its attributions, it makes laws which are obeyed by every citizen...
Página 193 - He ordered several of them to be called in, and exerted himself to take leave of them with a few kind and cheerful words. Among the English who were admitted to his bedside were Devonshire and Ormond. But there were in the crowd those who felt as no...
Página 95 - Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Página 167 - All hail, great master ! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curled clouds : to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.