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LITERATURE

... thing to reproduce on the scene personages over whom twenty-four centuries have passed, and to make them live, and act, and speak, after the manners of the age in which they flourished. Some of the most profound and gifted Germans of the last and the present ...

LITERATURE

... the, dictionary entirely abreast of the present 'state of niedi- j cal knowledge. So far as a non-professional person may w speak, we should say that the present'editor has performedjt his duty with great fidelity and success. Irrespective of that lw which ...

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... years -which have elapsed since Newton es- ie tablisbed the doctrine of universal gravitation. - The discovery of which we speak was no less than the proof ,d of the existence of a planet beyond the recognised boundary of a- our system, merely as an inference ...

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... 'hated' is given to answer l 'treated,' which implies an Irish pronunciation (trnted) on the part of the writer., Now, not to speak of the name, which does not seem very Irish-like in our ears, though Duffie is not unlike it, nor that likeness, according ...

TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES

... the sole exception of £ us the ruined -castles, the picturesque beauties of the Rhine. 1 p l But I shall have occasion to speak of the Ohio at another IE 1Y portion of my~ Journey. ' There is almost daily steamboat commusicatio'e between I Wheeling and ...

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... Connaught Rangers, ?? 'the fighting 88th,' in the Peninsular War, or the 23d Welsh. Royal Fusi- liers. But we must let Mr. Dove speak on this the, which he does con amore m In the history of Great Britain it would have been a -good investment to have brought ...

A FANCY SKETCH

... Vurder Bill had been described in the following manner: . ? -about four in the morning Mr. Disraeli crossed the House I to speak -with Lord John Russell, and something occurred I during his stay which induced him to object to the address o d of a Ministerial ...

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... much of what is usually narrated with a bias, because, seen from a particular poiint of observa- tion, is weighed, and so to speak, averaged, before it is finlally admitted into the narrative. Besides the above, we have in this first division of the history ...

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... youth, is still anything but uncomely at the date of the tale. Mr. Trevor, an intimate friend of her brother, and, morally speaking, a highly accomplished, amiable, and attractive man, was an admirer of Miss Newton; she on her part was fully susceptible ...

LITERATURE

... by so many references, that we cannot think for a moment that the author ever draws the long-bow. But we will allow him to speak for himself, premising that though the work is edited by Mr. Bell, it was all written by the author in the English tongue. ...

BANQUET AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

... if Government of Irogress, at all events we shall not be con- a sidered one of reaction. (Cheers and laughter.) But, to le speak seriously, I hold it to be one of the main objects of a Y Government to promote the interests of the Fine Arts-I - hold that ...