The Academy, Volume 25J. Murray, 1884 - English literature |
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... containing Four Books . Post 8vo , cloth , 18s . The above forms Vol . XXII . of The English and Foreign ... contains a Grammar of the Marks ; brief Historical Notices of the various Arts of Japan ; the Jikkwan and Jiuni Shi ...
... containing Four Books . Post 8vo , cloth , 18s . The above forms Vol . XXII . of The English and Foreign ... contains a Grammar of the Marks ; brief Historical Notices of the various Arts of Japan ; the Jikkwan and Jiuni Shi ...
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... contains an excellent aperçu : - that this circumstance points to a great lack of contemporary foreign fiction of a pure and attractive kind . " FEW literary women have possessed more genuine pretensions to eminence than Maria Edgeworth ...
... contains an excellent aperçu : - that this circumstance points to a great lack of contemporary foreign fiction of a pure and attractive kind . " FEW literary women have possessed more genuine pretensions to eminence than Maria Edgeworth ...
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... contains . A good many questions and answers are printed at length which will seem to many readers to be either trivial or redundant . It is rather in regard to MR . ELLIOT STOCK announces an edition of the method than to the substance ...
... contains . A good many questions and answers are printed at length which will seem to many readers to be either trivial or redundant . It is rather in regard to MR . ELLIOT STOCK announces an edition of the method than to the substance ...
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... contains fewer provincialisms than almost any other Chinese dialect , and employs the classical characters entirely in writing , the knowledge of this sub - language , so to speak , is indispensable to anyone who intends taking a ...
... contains fewer provincialisms than almost any other Chinese dialect , and employs the classical characters entirely in writing , the knowledge of this sub - language , so to speak , is indispensable to anyone who intends taking a ...
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... contains much useful informa- tion on the present state of Ceylon and its varied productions , the most important of which are tea , coffee , and cinchona . Unfortu- nately , the author arrived in London too late to read his useful ...
... contains much useful informa- tion on the present state of Ceylon and its varied productions , the most important of which are tea , coffee , and cinchona . Unfortu- nately , the author arrived in London too late to read his useful ...
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Page 108 - Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen. Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 171 - WILLIAMS.— A SYLLABIC DICTIONARY OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE; arranged according to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the pronunciation of the Characters as heard in Pekin, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai.
Page 37 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 38 - To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win : thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries, Thus thou must do, if thou have it: And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Page 243 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo...
Page 80 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 38 - My father, poorly led? — World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age.
Page 161 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 31 - And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 222 - A Complete Epitome of the Laws of this Country' EVERY MAN'S OWN LAWYER ; a Handy-Book of the Principles of Law and Equity. By A BARRISTER.