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... of the living voice. I do believe in it: its poorest atterauces when toeace i with sympathy must needs go home. I long to speak to the living, not the dead; to read the past in the light of the present, not the present In the light of the past. And this ...

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... one revolution, and in which the kingdoms of Europe encourn- i tered each other in deadly conflict. Wo are accustomed tic to speak of the interval which elapsed between the final - aefeat of Napoleon on the field of Waterloo and the W Drimean war, as the ...

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... terms of praise to this excellent periodical which undoubtedly will be a source of great pleasure I and instruction to French-speaking Englishmen, and it t remains now only for us to give a brief index of the current number. From the Pcatrie is taken L'Annde ...

YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION EXHIBITION

... they could not doubt Ms that it would be the means of general good, and an Al t encouragemeut to the members of the Union. Speaking Ri of the value of these societies, he said that each must have th Its own work, namely, to work up the natural history m ...

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... insuflicient amoauit. Now,' s i. tha realher, you have distracted muyattention at a very interesting passage; pray (lo not speak agnin until we cau finlis our bustiess. A third ?? cu.Aonser intentlv engaged with his book. At length the FrP(DCh- mant, ...

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... servitor of the old type,, is well drawn. But wivho ever 1 heard of a, woman brought up under the shadow of the e Pentlands speaking of a cock as a Tooster ? Mrs. Cam eron A has travelled, and she has brought back an Americanism. R h (7) The Biblical Museum: ...

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, AND SCIENCE NOTES

... part of LucyS Frankl~in by her pleasing appearance and no less i p~leasig manner;, and other J'oursahs speak in similar 'c terms of praise. 'We speak elsewhere of the truly charming performnance ~ at the Public Rooms on Tuesday last, but it is hardly t ...

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... drawn by a horse, t: gh, a bullock, or a cow. 0 die In this kind of travelling Mr. MacGregor is an en- b 'ery thusiast. He speaks exultingly of thto feeling attendant tl on the rapid motion of his boat, of the sense of freedom, r S.of the joy of difficulties ...

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... Firstly, because they are by a specialist who, from several years' work on the Yorkshire coalfield, is well qualified to speak oli the subject; and secondly, because they offer an admirably lucid illustration of tbe methods by which the maodern geologist ...

RAMSDEN'S CONCERTS

... for the purpose of inducing them to abandon the passive attitude they have hitherto maintained, arid to take their seats and speak and vote in the Reichrrath like the repre- sentatives of the other nationalities. This negotiation has much more prospect of ...

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, AND SCIENCE NOTES

... especially concerning the violinist, M. Musin, whose mar- vellous execution the patrons of these high-class concerts know well. Speaking of violinists. it has lately transpired that the interview recorded between the royal fiddler-the Duke- of Edinburgh-and ...

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... iuntiearive of the fleer. The matter accordinely ended Ml in nothing, and the Russians and Engicen iconitinued, ea so to speak, facing cue another across the hiutr- co] posing mass of Constantinople, which, had war broken cc: 3out afreshl, would doubtless ...