Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature, Volume 5Elliot Stock, 1887 - Bibliography |
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... reason , a Jew could not sell a book at all , although he might employ a Stationarius to sell it for him ; pedlars who had no fixed place of business and no license from the University , could not sell any book for more than ten sous ...
... reason , a Jew could not sell a book at all , although he might employ a Stationarius to sell it for him ; pedlars who had no fixed place of business and no license from the University , could not sell any book for more than ten sous ...
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... reason why he was permitted to end his life so miserably . Most people , however wretched , have at least some one , who in the last hour , is willing to throw aside the differences of former days as unworthy to be numbered then , and ...
... reason why he was permitted to end his life so miserably . Most people , however wretched , have at least some one , who in the last hour , is willing to throw aside the differences of former days as unworthy to be numbered then , and ...
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... reason was his positive mania for making enemies wherever he went , and a third his unconquerable pride which made them enemies for life . Between Greene and Edgar Allen Poe there was very much in common , each was of exceptional genius ...
... reason was his positive mania for making enemies wherever he went , and a third his unconquerable pride which made them enemies for life . Between Greene and Edgar Allen Poe there was very much in common , each was of exceptional genius ...
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... reason , the con- struction of a library is based upon a scientific system of orderly arrangement . Works on natural history , for example , might be arranged on some such plan as the following , which will be found suitable for a small ...
... reason , the con- struction of a library is based upon a scientific system of orderly arrangement . Works on natural history , for example , might be arranged on some such plan as the following , which will be found suitable for a small ...
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... reason why it is found marked with the " Globe and Cross , " when it is notorious that all paper manufactured by the Holbeins , except this particular specimen , bears the " Bull's Head , " doubtless taken from the coat - of - arms of ...
... reason why it is found marked with the " Globe and Cross , " when it is notorious that all paper manufactured by the Holbeins , except this particular specimen , bears the " Bull's Head , " doubtless taken from the coat - of - arms of ...
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Page 32 - Interest, repayable on demand. The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of charge, the custody of Deeds, Writings, and other Securities and Valuables ; the collection of Bills of Exchange, Dividends, and Coupons: and the purchase and sale of Stocks, Shares, and Annuities. Letters of Credit and Circular Notes issued. A Pamphlet, with full particulars, on application.
Page 32 - HOW TO PURCHASE A PLOT OF LAND FOR FIVE SHILLINGS PER MONTH, with immediate Possession, either for Building or Gardening purposes. Apply at the Office of the BIRKBECK FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane.
Page 76 - Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming: If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city ; Tell how the country erreth; Tell manhood shakes off pity ; Tell virtue least preferreth : And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing, — Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul can kill.
Page 46 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind : One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost...
Page 21 - I charge thee, by the love of our youth and by my soul's rest, that thou wilt see this man paid; for if he and his wife had not succoured me I had died in the streets.
Page 32 - MILLIONS. HOW TO PURCHASE A HOUSE FOR TWO GUINEAS PER MONTH, with immediate possession and no Rent to Pay. Apply at the office of the BIRKBECK BUILDING SOCIETY, 29, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane.
Page 105 - History of British Birds. The Figures engraved on Wood by T. Bewick. Vol.
Page 6 - ... was under the age of twenty-one, being a male, or fourteen, being a female', the lord was entitled to the wardship of the heir, and was called the guardian in chivalry. This wardship consisted in having...
Page 24 - Garden ; and a book reads the better, which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots and dog's-ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins, or over a pipe, which I think is the maximum.
Page 92 - Argot and Slang. A new French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris.