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... looks toward bettering the condition of the profession of letters in America . TEN CENTS PER COPY . ONE DOLLAR A YEAR . For sale at Brentano's , Union Square ; at the Society's Office , 32 Broadway , New York City , and at the office of ...
... looks toward bettering the condition of the profession of letters in America . TEN CENTS PER COPY . ONE DOLLAR A YEAR . For sale at Brentano's , Union Square ; at the Society's Office , 32 Broadway , New York City , and at the office of ...
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... look - out for a likely collaborator . LINNEUS had been requested to undertake the task , but had declined owing to other work in which he was more interested , Fishes being by no means a favourite study of his . On meeting ARTEDI ...
... look - out for a likely collaborator . LINNEUS had been requested to undertake the task , but had declined owing to other work in which he was more interested , Fishes being by no means a favourite study of his . On meeting ARTEDI ...
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... look elsewhere for the assistance he so sorely needed for rescuing his friend's property . For- tunately he was not obliged to search long ; his newly acquired patron and friend , GEORGE CLIFFORD1 , on hear- ing of the matter , at once ...
... look elsewhere for the assistance he so sorely needed for rescuing his friend's property . For- tunately he was not obliged to search long ; his newly acquired patron and friend , GEORGE CLIFFORD1 , on hear- ing of the matter , at once ...
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... there is no evidence for it . All the Latin writers , who quote it , quote literally and in Latin . But I find nothing in Plutarch's references that looks like an exact quotation . you The learned Varro wrote de vita sua in three 4.
... there is no evidence for it . All the Latin writers , who quote it , quote literally and in Latin . But I find nothing in Plutarch's references that looks like an exact quotation . you The learned Varro wrote de vita sua in three 4.
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... look of intense reality on every page , even at the times when Augustine is turning aside to view the abstract world - questions which so often thrust themselves into his life . As Adolf Har - j nack has acutely observed , the ...
... look of intense reality on every page , even at the times when Augustine is turning aside to view the abstract world - questions which so often thrust themselves into his life . As Adolf Har - j nack has acutely observed , the ...
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Page 12 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 8 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Page 8 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Page 8 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 10 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 8 - ... same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.