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... give one the same impression of possessing considerable cultivation and fine manners , but with stilted tediousness . Of the vein of Puritanism which had certainly permeated the middle class and the more retired upper class , as is ...
... give one the same impression of possessing considerable cultivation and fine manners , but with stilted tediousness . Of the vein of Puritanism which had certainly permeated the middle class and the more retired upper class , as is ...
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... give a note of distinction to any society they may frequent . Far from snubbing amateurs , they are the first to acknowledge the worth of the passionate appreciation these display when really fine work in painting or music is in ...
... give a note of distinction to any society they may frequent . Far from snubbing amateurs , they are the first to acknowledge the worth of the passionate appreciation these display when really fine work in painting or music is in ...
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... give to the United States Government the right to erect any fortifications they wish , and to consider the canal as one of the lines of national defence , which it was the purpose of the Convention to prohibit . The amendment was based ...
... give to the United States Government the right to erect any fortifications they wish , and to consider the canal as one of the lines of national defence , which it was the purpose of the Convention to prohibit . The amendment was based ...
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... give up her rights under the treaty , and agree to its entire abrogation . They forget , however , that at the time when the Clayton - Bulwer treaty was concluded , Great Britain had large interests in Central America , and that the ...
... give up her rights under the treaty , and agree to its entire abrogation . They forget , however , that at the time when the Clayton - Bulwer treaty was concluded , Great Britain had large interests in Central America , and that the ...
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... gives us the Egyptian ideal of the human form . How shall we describe this ideal ? In face the men and women were ... give the whole length of the feet , and one leg was put in front of the other , so that neither should be concealed ...
... gives us the Egyptian ideal of the human form . How shall we describe this ideal ? In face the men and women were ... give the whole length of the feet , and one leg was put in front of the other , so that neither should be concealed ...
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Page 266 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 8 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 589 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 629 - And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 589 - Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones till I sink to the minor, — yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep.
Page 354 - The valleys stand so thick with corn, that they laugh and sing.
Page 20 - Lincoln, in behalf of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Church of England.
Page 622 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Page 87 - Articles aforesaid shall in no case occasion any obstacle to the measures which the Imperial Ottoman Government may think it necessary to take in order to insure by its own forces the defence of its other possessions situated on the eastern coast of the Red Sea.
Page 95 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.