The Dial: A Monthly Review and Index of Current Literature, Volume 3Francis Fisher Browne Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1883 - American literature |
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... Descriptions , etc. By Wm . B. Tuthill , A. M. Arch . Folio . $ 7.50 . An Elementary History of Art , Architecture ... Description and Classification of Minerals . By James C. Foye , Ph.D. New and enlarged edition . 12mo . $ 1.00 . In ...
... Descriptions , etc. By Wm . B. Tuthill , A. M. Arch . Folio . $ 7.50 . An Elementary History of Art , Architecture ... Description and Classification of Minerals . By James C. Foye , Ph.D. New and enlarged edition . 12mo . $ 1.00 . In ...
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... description . " - Boston Journal . " It contains a fine discrimination of character , with racy pictures of foreign ... descriptions of Tausig , Kullak , Liszt , and Deppe , with each of whom Miss Fay studied , are done with all the ...
... description . " - Boston Journal . " It contains a fine discrimination of character , with racy pictures of foreign ... descriptions of Tausig , Kullak , Liszt , and Deppe , with each of whom Miss Fay studied , are done with all the ...
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... Descriptions of Places , Buildings , Monuments , Works of Art , and the Historical Facts , Legends and Myths connected with these ] . PART II . - PLANS AND CATALOGUES OF THE ART GALLE RIES OF EUROPE . PART III . - MAPS , TABLES AND ...
... Descriptions of Places , Buildings , Monuments , Works of Art , and the Historical Facts , Legends and Myths connected with these ] . PART II . - PLANS AND CATALOGUES OF THE ART GALLE RIES OF EUROPE . PART III . - MAPS , TABLES AND ...
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... description of society characters . The work makes a handsome 12mo of 380 pages and is issued in superior style , being printed on laid paper and handsomely bound in cloth . Price $ 1 . For sale by leading booksellers and the publishers ...
... description of society characters . The work makes a handsome 12mo of 380 pages and is issued in superior style , being printed on laid paper and handsomely bound in cloth . Price $ 1 . For sale by leading booksellers and the publishers ...
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... description of Monny's desper- ate attempt at suicide , and her rescue by her faithful dog and Mr. Leigh , is given with dramatic power ; as is the scene of the night rescue of the shipwrecked sailors , in an earlier chapter . The local ...
... description of Monny's desper- ate attempt at suicide , and her rescue by her faithful dog and Mr. Leigh , is given with dramatic power ; as is the scene of the night rescue of the shipwrecked sailors , in an earlier chapter . The local ...
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Page 9 - I hold very strongly by two convictions : The first is, that neither the discipline nor the subject-matter of classical education is of such direct value to the student of physical science as to justify the expenditure of valuable time upon either ; and the second is, that, for the purpose of attaining real culture, an exclusively scientific education is at least as effectual as an exclusively...
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Page 226 - ... jails ; to recount the manifold improvements which, in a thousand ways, have multiplied the conveniences of life and ministered to the happiness of our race ; to describe the rise and progress of that long series of mechanical inventions and...
Page 210 - Believing that the established usage of free confidential communication between the Executive and the Senate ought for the public interest to be preserved unimpaired, I deem it my indispensable duty to leave to the Senate itself the decision of a question involving a departure hitherto, so far as I am informed, without example from that usage, and upon the motives for which, not being informed of them, I do not feel myself competent to decide.
Page 166 - KvSti yattov, rejoicing in his own vigour and richness of resource. I say, a narrow critic will call it verbiage, when really it is a sort of fulness of heart, parallel to that which makes the merry boy whistle as he walks, or the strong man, like the smith in the novel, flourish his club when there is no one to fight with.