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... admiration and example of his fellow - men . Some months since , when you presented to the writer of these pages a small account for coats and pantaloons manu- factured by you , and when you were met by a statement from your debtor ...
... admiration and example of his fellow - men . Some months since , when you presented to the writer of these pages a small account for coats and pantaloons manu- factured by you , and when you were met by a statement from your debtor ...
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... admirable way to see Paris , especially if you spend your days reading the English papers at Galignani's , as many of our foreign tourists do . But all this is promiscuous , and not to the purpose . If , - to continue on the subject of ...
... admirable way to see Paris , especially if you spend your days reading the English papers at Galignani's , as many of our foreign tourists do . But all this is promiscuous , and not to the purpose . If , - to continue on the subject of ...
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... admirable Sancho- like gravity and naïveté , which one could not desire improved ? How good is that touch of sly indignation about the little cata- falques ! how rich the contrast presented by the economy of the Catholics to the ...
... admirable Sancho- like gravity and naïveté , which one could not desire improved ? How good is that touch of sly indignation about the little cata- falques ! how rich the contrast presented by the economy of the Catholics to the ...
Pagina 58
... admirable in workmanship and imitation of nature . I have seldom seen flesh better represented in marble . Examine , also , Jaley's " Pudeur , " Jacquot's " Nymph , " and Rude's " Boy with the Tortoise . " These are not very exalted ...
... admirable in workmanship and imitation of nature . I have seldom seen flesh better represented in marble . Examine , also , Jaley's " Pudeur , " Jacquot's " Nymph , " and Rude's " Boy with the Tortoise . " These are not very exalted ...
Pagina 59
... admirable single figures of David , full of life , truth , and gaiety . The colour is not good , but all the rest excellent ; and one of these so much - lauded pictures is the portrait of a washerwoman . " Pope Pius , " at the Louvre ...
... admirable single figures of David , full of life , truth , and gaiety . The colour is not good , but all the rest excellent ; and one of these so much - lauded pictures is the portrait of a washerwoman . " Pope Pius , " at the Louvre ...
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Pagina 99 - I am sure that a man who, a hundred years hence should sit down to write the history of our time, would do wrong to put that great contemporary history of "Pickwick" aside as a frivolous work. It contains true character under false names; and, like "Roderick Random...
Pagina 234 - O awful, awful name of God ! Light unbearable ! Mystery unfathomable! Vastness immeasurable! Who are these who come forward to explain the mystery, and gaze unblinking into the depths of the light, and measure the immeasurable vastness to a hair ? O name, that God's people of old did fear to utter ! O light, that God's prophet would have perished had he seen ! who are these that are now so familiar with it?
Pagina 187 - The genius of Cervantes was transferred into the novels of Fielding, who painted the characters and ridiculed the follies of life with equal strength, humor, and propriety. The field of history and biography was cultivated by many writers of ability, among whom we distinguish the copious Guthrie, the circumstantial Ralph, the laborious Carte, the learned and elegant Robertson, and above all, the ingenious, penetrating, and comprehensive Hume,