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... remarkable impartiality . It has even a portrait of the late Earl of Carlisle , and a map of the neighbourhood of Guildford . This is indeed true comprehensiveness . GRANT ALLEN . The Manners and Customs of the Chinese of the Straits ...
... remarkable impartiality . It has even a portrait of the late Earl of Carlisle , and a map of the neighbourhood of Guildford . This is indeed true comprehensiveness . GRANT ALLEN . The Manners and Customs of the Chinese of the Straits ...
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... remarkable gift of versification became in itself a danger . In pieces such as the " Artisan's Song , " " A Book for Home Fire- side , " and others , he has done little more than crystallise the commonplaces of his day ; but the fact ...
... remarkable gift of versification became in itself a danger . In pieces such as the " Artisan's Song , " " A Book for Home Fire- side , " and others , he has done little more than crystallise the commonplaces of his day ; but the fact ...
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... remarkable life . Millet may be estimated in two ways - as a man and as an artist . In many artists the man is uninteresting the talent , the accom- plishment interest us , but not the man . In Millet this is so far from being the case ...
... remarkable life . Millet may be estimated in two ways - as a man and as an artist . In many artists the man is uninteresting the talent , the accom- plishment interest us , but not the man . In Millet this is so far from being the case ...
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... remarkable than purely agreeable . Nor would Mr. J. Park's etching of Les Regrets after A. Gautier be at all more permanently delightful . It is weaker art to begin with the art of the original artist , if not that of his interpreter ...
... remarkable than purely agreeable . Nor would Mr. J. Park's etching of Les Regrets after A. Gautier be at all more permanently delightful . It is weaker art to begin with the art of the original artist , if not that of his interpreter ...
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... remarkable biography which they possess renders them less attentive to the is consequence of the measures they adopt in affairs of moment " ( pp . 250 , 251 ) . This unparalleled code of oppression was the outcome of national hatred and ...
... remarkable biography which they possess renders them less attentive to the is consequence of the measures they adopt in affairs of moment " ( pp . 250 , 251 ) . This unparalleled code of oppression was the outcome of national hatred and ...
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Seite 22 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Seite 134 - With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together.
Seite 164 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Seite 161 - The only passage by which it could be entered, was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed, whether it was the work of nature or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern was concealed by a thick wood, and the mouth, which opened into the valley, was closed with gates of iron, forged by the artificers of ancient days, so massy that no man could, without the help of engines, open or shut them.
Seite 247 - S (Frank) FRGS— MATABELE LAND AND THE VICTORIA FALLS. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa.
Seite 72 - I have dwelt upon the greatness of Athens because I want to show you that we are contending for a higher prize than those who enjoy none of these privileges, and to establish by manifest proof the merit of these men whom I am now commemorating. Their loftiest praise has been already spoken. For in magnifying the city I have magnified them, and men like them whose virtues made her glorious.
Seite 49 - ... and before the close of the year to give evidence of progress by the preparation of a thesis, the completion of a research, the delivery of a lecture, or by some other method.
Seite 132 - different from all the rest of English poets and in the main greater." But can we not be a little more circumstantial and name that in which the wonderful power of this personality consisted?
Seite 161 - The place, which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it...
Seite 200 - This book is written with clearness and precision, and the author is thoroughly impregnated with the doctrine which he expounds, and makes it as plain as it can be made without becoming other than it is.