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... were even more important in California. He falls into ecstasy about a lady he met on board of a river steamer. But he must speak.for him'self-- I . . rejoined my companion, who was conversing on the poop with -one of the most charming, little ladies I ...

MR THOMAS CARLYLE ON VERSE WRITING

... have prose and be wholly credible, if he debired it; this I lay at the door of our spiritual teachers (pedants mostly, and speaking an obsolete dialect), who thereby incalculably rot the world; making him who might have been a soldier and fighter (so terribly ...

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... have spug t to discover the Professor's apiri AV btanx ~t, and his conclusion is- ei Huxley commands our groa repc;w Rild, speak of him as a reverent neeer LovE AND Du'TY': Lz,'I~ APiLrE. -Y Anna J. Bucklaud Lodn Cassellf pe~tter & Galpiu, Tssxs is a decidedly ...

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS

... it much; It-is more spirited in than the others. This self -commendaion, dc however, does not count for much, as, not to w speak of the known inability ofv writer to judge' im of 'the nerits of their own vrorks, Mendelssohn w .had the peoniar knack of ...

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... On what, with lips like quivering leaves, and hair Back-blowlrig in the whirlwind, do ye stare So steadfast and so still? ( speak and tell- Is the Soul safe? Shall the sick world be well? Will morning glimmer soon, and all be fair? O Martyrs ! all ye see ...

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... huge religious pyramids, the Vedisesl vhere. in, -as all Max Mqller's readers know*;the faith which is. ensbrined (or, to speak mte'-eoi r. srectly,--is buried deep iin rubbish), ip -Theiim;; : ,On ths other' hand, it is jest: forty yeara ;ince. ilhere ...

PROFESSOR NICHOL ON WAR SONGS

... -whenit ishto hpd, : they have lost their tt political interest. hlr Nihol read the Shan Van a Yacht and, .Who ears to Speak of 'Ninety- .t Eight?9mw C O rima srgl produced the ,g famous ' arjv 'of the Brigade, by the Le -Laureate-end's 'little-volume ...

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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 ...