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LITERATURE

... ourselves to the significant fact that these are, without ani exceptlon, the Gaelic-speaking communities. We do-not me an op to say that if these people were taught to speak English in-. r stead of Gaelic, thc'ould civilise them, but it would certainly da ...

PRELIMINARY JOTTINGS ANENT THE EXHIBITION

... ar seine) are coloured In Prusian ?? with a vengeance, te largest 6 feet high, and -weighing 6 tons ! Talented young poets speak of Rarebell Chimems and here they are in hard reality ' Thefollowing is a&curious account of the numberf o stitches contained ...

LITERATURE

... thourand years before, the 6ommencement of the CUristian era, and that ouch ancient writers as TAcites, Strabo, and Juvenvi speak onlyf n2the majesty of Thebes as in thoo pest, and as, in their own time, magnificent only In- its rvnin. EiAt the present ...

LIFE OF WASHINGTON IRVING.*

... -their boys, ?? kznowone h bypocrisy the less. ; . . Irving received what w'ouid ie.oallod a nilddle-olase eda. catlonw oh. ?? speaking, Is vcwr middllng In l deed!;1armething- ofe$verything, qid pnt ninoh of anything. At:the end of It, or rather long'before ...

LITERATURE

... College. So do-so, in fact, In the nature of things must-several young men every year in c every one of our univereltlea; not to speak of those who a every year cary first prizes, and many first prles, without being tbonght on that account worthy of a, memoir ...

NOTES ON THE EXHIBITION

... must stand as a monument of tie great courage, the great delicay, the great genius of this great artist. I did not mean to speak of art, as I was hurrying forward to the foreign department to tell you ot its stores, but as I am standing ?? I cannot leave ...

LITERATURE

... for him- than any othereavent In the whole course le of. his education, It act only .~raiaed him to. readiness in publin speaking,hut broughtfiin Int-o lose and fanailiar~con. i~tact with Sir Welter Soott; BroughiSru, Hornet-, the Marquis of Lansmiowne ...

LIFE IN THE FORESTS OF THE FAR EAST*

... the banks of several rivers, and much of the soil is especially adopted for the cultivation of sugar. Of the various tribes speaking different languages who are now subject to Sarawack, there are In all no lees than 240,000 souls, and probably more, The ...

LITERATURE

... objection to eir It. It took the people's attention wonderfully. A certall bb solemn atmosphere entered with that lofty figure, speaking ad in matchles harmony of voice, its Peaoe beto this house. ny To be prayed for, sometimes edifyIngly, sometimes tediously ...

NOTES ON THE EXHIBITION

... lih, Is put as chairmen, against te rule as it was explained to the jurors8 Re sepaks to 1nguglfmen for an hour, and they speak In Frenoh to him, although some present do not understand the langusge, and II1 ackcowledged that the langu ge to the jury ...

LITERATURE

... they may hope tu obtain. h sm Inerest In their fate, or Mitigation of their labonro, Its Professor Tucker goes further, and speaks of the temperate and ea.- and easy life of a large part of the slave population as adding tint lg to the chances of longevity ...

NOTES ON THE EXHIBITION

... equally, and there was a brightness an of day. Nobody locked at oases hot a few connoisseurs, arnd I use lofw who had no one to speak to, Diamoild neck- I ?? shone as faraso they could, but no one seemed I -tof dtossimproved by them in appearance; sand richness ...