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HORSES; AND THE ART OF RIDING THEM

... evil as far as possible by securing all exactly central fix upon sad- dles, the best form of which he learnodly discusses. Speaking seriously, all fair riders ought, for their own sakes, to study and tprofit by his advice, the result of long experience ...

PICTURESQUE SKETCHES IN GREECE AND TURKEY

... d city ; but t ?? hmeis repelled by the chill. Only is the cemetery is tie at bosie; and she cypress aid the tended grave speak to him of a fiaternal humanity. This is true, yet in the following picture miay be found one subject, at least, in which our ...

SLAVIC LITERATURE

... soonest, how the quickest, Fort Azof' eay fall ? The Boyars, they stood in silence.- And our fatler dear, He again began to speak In lis eye a tear: Comne, my children, good dragoons, And my soldiers all, Now consider and invent Brave advice, ye all, How ...

MEMOIRS AND PAPERS OF SIR ANDREW MITCHELL

... individual demoralization and national ruin which follow in their train. In one dated Leipsic, February, 1701, Mitchell thus speaks of the chanige for the worse he load observed in the King himself:- The premiditated and deliberate plundering of Huberts- ...

FINE ARTS

... garded from a very slight distance it looks like a piece of sculpture. Of Mr. Hancock's composition we had formerly occasion to speak. It is full of life and animation. The other publication, which is dated as for 1850, consists of a series of engravings of ...

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... morning was the Elijah, which was givex entire at the Cathedral, and occupied until nearly four o'clock this after noon. Before speaking of that performance, however, we must notice last night's concert, which was held at the Shire. hall, and was attended by ...

MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY

... of the highest authority, viz., the parables of the Sacred Volume itself, where inanimate objects are frequently fabled to speak where important lessons are to be given to mankind. Now we think, even without so high an example, that an apology would have ...

BARBA TASSI

... therefore, when an author imagines that in merely detailing the per- sonal adventures of an individual through certain events, he speaks to an intelligent audience, capable of supplying the historical hiatuses, and of arranging the historical actors in their ...

THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER

... ng of the limits of probability, making the reader distrust the naturalness of the transitions and hinges (if we might so speak) of the story, and marring that completeness of illusion which the novelist aims to effect. Of this, however, our readers will ...

GILBERT ON BANKING

... his book may be more particularly useful, he includes in the first category those public men who have occasion to write or speak upon our banking institutions; and of these he says in his preface:- Statesmen, authors, and reviewers, however correct may ...

GERMANIA

... liberties' had been raised spontaneously iand simultaneously nearly all over Geriany- and this it would be idle to deny. I I speak of the mass, the majority of the German race not of the Utopians represented by the student I bare de- scribed in a previous ...

THE PHANTOM WORLD

... saying that the compact was made that ho should speak only in the usual tongue. The demon added, ' Is it not enough that I show thee that I understanid what thou savest 9' The same Xl. Gandier, speaking to hlit in Greek, inadvertently put one case for ...