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... wonderful than all the fairy stories you have been told ; and if this be true , as true it is , of dead stones and many other things which cannot speak , you may believe that a ух B history stranger still can be written about some ...
... wonderful than all the fairy stories you have been told ; and if this be true , as true it is , of dead stones and many other things which cannot speak , you may believe that a ух B history stranger still can be written about some ...
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... wonderful living thing that this world has ever seen that I want to tell you . You will perhaps think that I am about to describe to you some curly- haired , big - tusked , fierce - looking monster that lived on the earth thousands of ...
... wonderful living thing that this world has ever seen that I want to tell you . You will perhaps think that I am about to describe to you some curly- haired , big - tusked , fierce - looking monster that lived on the earth thousands of ...
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... wonderful in being where you are , or in possessing the good things which you enjoy ; that people have always had them , or if not , that they had only to buy them at the shops ; and that from the first day man lived on the earth he ...
... wonderful in being where you are , or in possessing the good things which you enjoy ; that people have always had them , or if not , that they had only to buy them at the shops ; and that from the first day man lived on the earth he ...
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... wonderfully made hand of man cannot do , but it must have tools to work with . A man cannot cut wood or meat without a knife , he cannot write without a pen , or drive in nails without a hammer . III . Man's First Tools . One of the ...
... wonderfully made hand of man cannot do , but it must have tools to work with . A man cannot cut wood or meat without a knife , he cannot write without a pen , or drive in nails without a hammer . III . Man's First Tools . One of the ...
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... wonderful had happened . The piling together of stones was an easy and last- ing way of keeping such things fresh in men's minds , just as we erect statues in honour of our great men , or build something in memory of their acts of ...
... wonderful had happened . The piling together of stones was an easy and last- ing way of keeping such things fresh in men's minds , just as we erect statues in honour of our great men , or build something in memory of their acts of ...
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Page 83 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 79 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page 48 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Page 50 - A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and Narrated Anew. By the Author of
Page 48 - Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series, especially provided editions of standard works, volumes of selected poetry, and original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more elegant than the material workmanship."—BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.
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Page 11 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
Page 57 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Page 4 - Quatorze;" any previous literature being for the most part unknown or ignored. Fe-w know anything of the enormous literary activity that began in the thirteenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf, Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris ; was fostered by Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First ; that gave a crowd of versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the French language, and prepared the way for Corneille and for...