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Volume the Second . London : 1861 , 183 VII ) . - Explorations and Adventures in
Equatorial Africa , with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People , and
of the Chase of the Gorilla , Crocodile , Leopard , Elephant , Hippopotamus ...
Volume the Second . London : 1861 , 183 VII ) . - Explorations and Adventures in
Equatorial Africa , with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People , and
of the Chase of the Gorilla , Crocodile , Leopard , Elephant , Hippopotamus ...
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Fifth Volume . By Lord Macaulay . Edited by his Sister , Lady Trevelyan . London :
1861 . 2 . The New Examen ; or an Enquiry into the Evidence relating to certain
Passages in Lord Macaulay ' s History . By John Paget , Barrister - at - Law .
Fifth Volume . By Lord Macaulay . Edited by his Sister , Lady Trevelyan . London :
1861 . 2 . The New Examen ; or an Enquiry into the Evidence relating to certain
Passages in Lord Macaulay ' s History . By John Paget , Barrister - at - Law .
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Six volumes 8vo . March , 1861 . 2 . Popular Education in England , being an
Abstract of the Report of the Royal Commissioners on Education : with an
Introduction and Summary Tables . By HERBERT S . SKEATS . London : 1861 . 3
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Six volumes 8vo . March , 1861 . 2 . Popular Education in England , being an
Abstract of the Report of the Royal Commissioners on Education : with an
Introduction and Summary Tables . By HERBERT S . SKEATS . London : 1861 . 3
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Twenty - seven octavo volumes of Reports record their minutes and proceedings
; and in 1853 Sir James Kay Shuttleworth , formerly the Secretary of the Board ,
published a volume , which is , in fact , a report of all that had been done down to
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Twenty - seven octavo volumes of Reports record their minutes and proceedings
; and in 1853 Sir James Kay Shuttleworth , formerly the Secretary of the Board ,
published a volume , which is , in fact , a report of all that had been done down to
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Tx the fifth volume , of the work entitled Modern Painters , ' Mr . Ruskin has
attempted , in his accustomed style , to relate the changes wrought by the era of
the Reformation in the history of art ; and he illustrates this revolution in the most
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Tx the fifth volume , of the work entitled Modern Painters , ' Mr . Ruskin has
attempted , in his accustomed style , to relate the changes wrought by the era of
the Reformation in the history of art ; and he illustrates this revolution in the most
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Page 167 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 274 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Page 550 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 511 - WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground...
Page 543 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 552 - But if the Government be National with regard to the operation of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the extent of its powers. The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government.
Page 407 - That prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation (they having reformed from popery by presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished...
Page 543 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Page 415 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.