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... decorated capital has to be imitated , and bold operators will reprint a page or two in fac - simile ; these operations , of course , involve the inlaying of paper , judiciously staining it , and other mysteries . Paris is the great ...
... decorated capital has to be imitated , and bold operators will reprint a page or two in fac - simile ; these operations , of course , involve the inlaying of paper , judiciously staining it , and other mysteries . Paris is the great ...
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... decorated clasps ? And shall we not ad- mit it to a higher place in our reverence than some mere item of household convenience , when we re- flect that it is the very form in which some great ruling intellect , resuscitated from long ...
... decorated clasps ? And shall we not ad- mit it to a higher place in our reverence than some mere item of household convenience , when we re- flect that it is the very form in which some great ruling intellect , resuscitated from long ...
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... decorate appropriate compart- ments , and in a prominent niche , at the head of the apartment , stands a full - length statue of Shake- speare , executed by Thom , in the same style as the Tam o ' Shanter and Old Mortality groups of ...
... decorate appropriate compart- ments , and in a prominent niche , at the head of the apartment , stands a full - length statue of Shake- speare , executed by Thom , in the same style as the Tam o ' Shanter and Old Mortality groups of ...
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... decorated by him in the most extravagant style of the bibliomaniac school in which he held so eminent a position . It is illustrated throughout with portraits , some of which are very rare ; it contains all the letters which the editor ...
... decorated by him in the most extravagant style of the bibliomaniac school in which he held so eminent a position . It is illustrated throughout with portraits , some of which are very rare ; it contains all the letters which the editor ...
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... decorated with a rich array of rood screens , finial crockets , lavatories , aumbries , lecterns , lych sheds , albs , stoups , sedilia , credence tables , pixes , hagioscopes , baudekyns , and squenches . It is evident that he keeps a ...
... decorated with a rich array of rood screens , finial crockets , lavatories , aumbries , lecterns , lych sheds , albs , stoups , sedilia , credence tables , pixes , hagioscopes , baudekyns , and squenches . It is evident that he keeps a ...
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Page 67 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 132 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all : those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Page 134 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 47 - Good name, in man, and woman, Is the immediate jewel of their souls...
Page 154 - ... to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay. To expect a Steele, or a Farquhar, and find — Adam Smith. To view a well-arranged assortment of blockheaded...
Page 135 - Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation.
Page 379 - Stagnum Aporicum " is Lochaber ; so here we have a pauper from the neighbourhood of Lochaber — a designation which I take to be familiarly known at " the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland.
Page 130 - Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity: Many from the ignorance of these maxims, and an inconsiderate zeal unto truth, have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth...
Page 153 - Statutes at Large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which " no gentleman's library should be without " : the Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy.
Page 153 - I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things in books' clothing perched upon shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance of a volume, and hope it is some kind-hearted play-book, then, opening what ' seem its leaves ', to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay.