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... Illustrations . Demy 8vo . 75. 6d . net . Aldis ( Janet ) . MADAME GEOFFRIN , HER SALON , AND HER TIMES . With many Portraits and Illustrations . Second Edition . Demy 8vo . 10s . 6d . net . A Colonial Edition is also published ...
... Illustrations . Demy 8vo . 75. 6d . net . Aldis ( Janet ) . MADAME GEOFFRIN , HER SALON , AND HER TIMES . With many Portraits and Illustrations . Second Edition . Demy 8vo . 10s . 6d . net . A Colonial Edition is also published ...
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... Illustrations in the Text , and 12 Photo- gravure Plates . Gilt top . Large quarto . 36s . THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS . With numerous Illustrations from Busts , Gems , Cameos , etc. Sixth Edition . Royal 8vo . 10s . 6d . net . A BOOK OF ...
... Illustrations in the Text , and 12 Photo- gravure Plates . Gilt top . Large quarto . 36s . THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS . With numerous Illustrations from Busts , Gems , Cameos , etc. Sixth Edition . Royal 8vo . 10s . 6d . net . A BOOK OF ...
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... Illustrations . Second Edition , Revised . Cr . 8vo . 6s . HILLS AND THE SEA . Second Edition . Crown 8vo . 6s . Bellot ( H. H.L. ) , M.A. THE INNER AND MIDDLE TEMPLE . With numerous Illustrations . Crown 8vo . 6s . net . Bennett ...
... Illustrations . Second Edition , Revised . Cr . 8vo . 6s . HILLS AND THE SEA . Second Edition . Crown 8vo . 6s . Bellot ( H. H.L. ) , M.A. THE INNER AND MIDDLE TEMPLE . With numerous Illustrations . Crown 8vo . 6s . net . Bennett ...
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... Illustrations . Two Volumes . Royal 8vo . £ 3 , 35. net . Buist ( H. Massac ) . THE MOTOR YEAR BOOK AND AUTOMOBILISTS ' ANNUAL FOR 1906. Demy 8vo . 75. 6d . net . Bull ( Paul ) , Army Chaplain . GOD AND OUR SOLDIERS . Second Edition ...
... Illustrations . Two Volumes . Royal 8vo . £ 3 , 35. net . Buist ( H. Massac ) . THE MOTOR YEAR BOOK AND AUTOMOBILISTS ' ANNUAL FOR 1906. Demy 8vo . 75. 6d . net . Bull ( Paul ) , Army Chaplain . GOD AND OUR SOLDIERS . Second Edition ...
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... Illustrations . Second Edition . Large Post 8vo . 5s . net . SIX LECTURES ON PAINTING . First Series . With 19 Illustrations . Third Edition , Large Post 8vo . 3s . 6d . net . Cleather ( A. L. ) . See Wagner . Clinch ( G. ) . See Little ...
... Illustrations . Second Edition . Large Post 8vo . 5s . net . SIX LECTURES ON PAINTING . First Series . With 19 Illustrations . Third Edition , Large Post 8vo . 3s . 6d . net . Cleather ( A. L. ) . See Wagner . Clinch ( G. ) . See Little ...
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Page 87 - and tell you a truth which, perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that He sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing...
Page 95 - Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship,) which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Page 98 - Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like...
Page 88 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief] trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 96 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings. We slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 95 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 265 - A sumptuous series of 20 books on art, written by experts for collectors, superbly illustrated in photogravure, collotype, and colour. The technical side of the art is duly treated. The first volumes are — MEZZOTINTS. By Cyril Davenport. With 40 Plates in Photogravure. PORCELAIN. By Edward Dillon. With 19 Plates in Colour, 20 in Collotype, and 5 in Photogravure. MINIATURES. By Dudley Heath. With 9 Plates in Colour, 15 in Collotype, and 15 in Photogravure. IVORIES. By A. Maskell. With So Plates...
Page 95 - For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation...
Page 265 - THE SPIRITUAL GUIDE, which Disentangles the Soul and brings it by the Inward Way to the Fruition of Perfect Contemplation, and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace. Written by Dr. Michael de Molinos, Priest.
Page 265 - Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). THE EARLY POEMS OF. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by J. CHURTON COLLINS, MA Cr.