The Living Age, 322. köideLiving Age Company, 1924 |
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... centuries passed . Byron selects it among all the Island wines : Fill high the bowl with Samian wine , and Tozer was ' regaled ' at the capital , Vathy , with old wine of a splendid quality , ' ' almost a liqueur . ' Like other Greek ...
... centuries passed . Byron selects it among all the Island wines : Fill high the bowl with Samian wine , and Tozer was ' regaled ' at the capital , Vathy , with old wine of a splendid quality , ' ' almost a liqueur . ' Like other Greek ...
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... century ago , three hundred were done away with , and twenty - five years ago there were only some twenty - five hun- dred monks and less than five hundred nuns in the kingdom ; the latter enjoy greater liberty than their sisters in the ...
... century ago , three hundred were done away with , and twenty - five years ago there were only some twenty - five hun- dred monks and less than five hundred nuns in the kingdom ; the latter enjoy greater liberty than their sisters in the ...
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... century , revealing almost at once the broad pattern that subsequent technical development was to fill in . Early attempts to accommo- date industry to that new design were , compared with what we are doing to- day , exceedingly rude ...
... century , revealing almost at once the broad pattern that subsequent technical development was to fill in . Early attempts to accommo- date industry to that new design were , compared with what we are doing to- day , exceedingly rude ...
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... century disintegrated the old crafts and guilds into an un- differentiated mass of factory opera- tives has been insensibly reversed into a trend toward labor aristocracy , mani- festing itself by the selective stratifica- tion of ...
... century disintegrated the old crafts and guilds into an un- differentiated mass of factory opera- tives has been insensibly reversed into a trend toward labor aristocracy , mani- festing itself by the selective stratifica- tion of ...
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... century , is the hierarchy of celebrities . - When the official cortège had gone , a huge throng spread itself through the Exhibition . This good British public , lacking the sense of the ridiculous that a French public would have ...
... century , is the hierarchy of celebrities . - When the official cortège had gone , a huge throng spread itself through the Exhibition . This good British public , lacking the sense of the ridiculous that a French public would have ...
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Page 21 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 122 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth,— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
Page 631 - The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the...
Page 117 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 350 - ... a lone man's companion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep, and a chilly man's fire, sir ; while for stanching of wounds, purging of rheum, and settling of the stomach, there's no herb like unto it under the canopy of heaven.
Page 350 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 631 - How is the faithful city become an harlot ! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water : thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves : every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards : they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Page 350 - Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her : and happy is every one that retainetn her.
Page 350 - Only a sculptor of the finest imagination, the most delicate taste, the sweetest feeling, and the rarest artistic skill — in a word, a sculptor and a poet too — could have first dreamed of a Faun in this guise, and then have succeeded in imprisoning the sportive and frisky thing in marble.
Page 519 - Government are bound to protest against this violation of a treaty to which Germany is a party in common with themselves, and must request an assurance that the demand made upon Belgium will not be proceeded with and that her neutrality will be respected by Germany. You should ask for an immediate reply.