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... Nature , Art , and Science . An Apologue . By Phoebe Allen . ( Griffith and Farran . ) - Apologues have in many instances rivalled epic poems in their hold upon the public mind . They have assumed as many forms as there are languages ...
... Nature , Art , and Science . An Apologue . By Phoebe Allen . ( Griffith and Farran . ) - Apologues have in many instances rivalled epic poems in their hold upon the public mind . They have assumed as many forms as there are languages ...
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... natural history which cannot fail to attract them . The thread of domestic story which runs through the narrative is admittedly fictitious , and the personnel of the characters may be regarded in the same light . Still , the book is a ...
... natural history which cannot fail to attract them . The thread of domestic story which runs through the narrative is admittedly fictitious , and the personnel of the characters may be regarded in the same light . Still , the book is a ...
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... nature of the plan adopted by St. John , and its relation to the three earlier Gospels , concluding by a declara- tion that their joint and sole aim has been " to discover the true meaning of a Gospel which the eloquent Herder long ago ...
... nature of the plan adopted by St. John , and its relation to the three earlier Gospels , concluding by a declara- tion that their joint and sole aim has been " to discover the true meaning of a Gospel which the eloquent Herder long ago ...
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... nature of any work by Mr. Smiles is unnecessary . Every reader is acquainted with this popular author's style and manner and treatment . Mr. Smiles never seeks fresh fields and pastures new . The lucky vein he lighted upon years ago he ...
... nature of any work by Mr. Smiles is unnecessary . Every reader is acquainted with this popular author's style and manner and treatment . Mr. Smiles never seeks fresh fields and pastures new . The lucky vein he lighted upon years ago he ...
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... nature , varied by others in pler ty of a shorter kind . History , biography , * Little Folks . A Magazine for the Young . New and Enlarged Series . ( Cassell , Petter , Galpin and Co. ) travellers ' experience , enter largely into the ...
... nature , varied by others in pler ty of a shorter kind . History , biography , * Little Folks . A Magazine for the Young . New and Enlarged Series . ( Cassell , Petter , Galpin and Co. ) travellers ' experience , enter largely into the ...
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Page 234 - The Moor and the Loch. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Corrie, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN.
Page 207 - THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated from the Spanish of MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA by MOTTEUX. With copious Notes (including the Spanish Ballads), and an Essay on the Life and Writings of CERVANTES by JOHN G. LOCKHART. Preceded by a Short Notice of the Life and Works of PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX by HENRI VAN LAUN. Illustrated with Sixteen Original Etchings by R. DE Los Rios.
Page 91 - The Pointed Prayer Book, being the Book of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
Page 190 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.
Page 125 - Museum of Science and Art. THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. Edited by DIONYSIUS LARDNER, DCL, formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College, London. With upwards of 1 200 Engravings on Wood.
Page 244 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 81 - NOBLE THOUGHTS IN NOBLE LANGUAGE : A Collection of Wise and Virtuous Utterances, in Prose and Verse, from the Writings of the Known Great and the Great Unknown. With an Index of Authors. Compiled and Analytically Arranged by HENRY SOUTHGATE, Author of " Many Thoughts of Many Minds," "Musings about Men,
Page 91 - MT Ciceronis de Natura Deorum Libri Tres, with Introduction and Commentary by JOSEPH B. MAYOR, MA, Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College, London, together with a new collation of several of the English MSS.
Page 161 - The Encyclopaedic Dictionary. A New and Original Work of Reference to all the Words in the English Language, with a Full Account of their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Use.
Page 65 - A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery, From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time.