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... also received into his house some afflicted i relatives, and was their watchful attendant and sole supporter till they died. Speaking of. his attendance at certain periods, he said to a friend, I It is my work night 6and day, and the labours of a ploughman ...

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... What a fate for the author of 'Rasselas to figure in the harlequin part of a' nineteenth-century 'pauto mime I Seriously speaking, we do not' think that Mr Kingsley will need to be told that he has very little credit by the construction of liis story ...

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... translation of the Greek t/'erskeire. The word is used only in two other passages of the New Testament-the first where Paul speaks of him- self, After the most straitest sect of our s'eligion, I lived a Pharisee ; and the second in Colossians, where ...

THE INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS

... ac4 owce. To understand and enjoy c *t fully,'the- brain power!'must be at work. i ,, Wh is wanted (as we remarked when speaking 're. of thc Oxford leotures), is a better balance of on, education betweenuthe art producer and con- un-. sumer Collectors ...

SIR DAVID WEDDERBURN, M.P., ON DANISH POETRY

... -with -the' . lreadth- o. Afntervening sslt'S water, ae, we: proceed northwardi 'The, southern Scot and northern Englishman speak dialdots which , Dane, evep, now? 'imight Vudeist-aid, 'whilethe. 'names 'of' mounitassi, 'veales, towns, rivorsad water-fails ...

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... invaluable; the general reader will find it not uninterest- ing. Of Professor Ward's part of the performance it is impossible to speak too highly. His translation proves his know- ledge of German to be as accurate 'as his mastery of his native tongue is consummate ...

LITERATURE

... spinal cord requires to be educated in themr; in other words, they are all at first conscious acts till they_ hl ebeeno. so to speak, organised into the structure 'of the spinal coid, and then they may be,;performed correctly without qonsciousness. Similarly ...

LITERATURE

... the foibles - of Onv& ?? placed in an.1 aihusing light,' and to' have *Od, laugh in one's Moeve all 'one's neighbours, so to speak, an' I yettever t9be able to recognise'ia any figure of tbe'asklimg pioi-iiaone's own ortrcuit .arnd ii i this'>Dirdkaensis ...

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS

... performance, 'fokemost tamonget: which . was unquestioh.- ably -Madamne Vaneri'e -uendering of -Norm&'s muaio. It isim0possibl't speak in terms'tbhe ao68meinudatory of the ian.er in wihch this artist disoharged her arduous. duties. From firat to. last it was ...

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... stops' o use at different parts of each piece, more especially as steps are -indicated which few barmoniums, comparatively speaking, possess. Besides, -we object in talo to any marks whatever on 'the piano, forte, &c.; anything more than this does not tend ...

THE ATRE-ROYAL—MR SOTHERN

... cues with manifest study and apprei- ation. 'He is, moreover, a profcient in t he 1science of stage businehss, and, whether speaking' his lines or engaged in mute byplay, has always given to the spectator an idea of finish and skill in his conception of ...

THE MAGAZINES

... Dean Stanley, expresses the direction in which, amidst *ihatever stumbles and failures, his own face was steadily set':- Speak thou the truth. Let others fence, ; And trim theirworids'for pay: In pleasant sunshine of pretence Let others bask their day ...