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... style of color and pattern may be varied indefinitely , so as to suit all tastes . The paper when it leaves the hands of the marbler is very rough , and the colors are dingy - looking . To bring out their beauty , the sheets must be ...
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... style is plain , simple , and direct ; and though his pages teem with the material of deep schol- arship , yet he is , for the most part , eminently happy in making himself intelligible and interesting to every class ; while the rich ...
... style is plain , simple , and direct ; and though his pages teem with the material of deep schol- arship , yet he is , for the most part , eminently happy in making himself intelligible and interesting to every class ; while the rich ...
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... style . - Saturday Evening Gazette , Boston . The essay on the portraits of Knox is . altogether charming . Philadelphia Times . In historical portrait - painting there is certainly no writer now living at all comparable to Mr. Carlyle ...
... style . - Saturday Evening Gazette , Boston . The essay on the portraits of Knox is . altogether charming . Philadelphia Times . In historical portrait - painting there is certainly no writer now living at all comparable to Mr. Carlyle ...
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... style , have been the grounds of its remarkable public favor , as they are the guarantees for its permanent popular- ity . - Blackwood's Magazine . Alison's Life of Marlborough . His work forms a magnificent portal to the present ; it ...
... style , have been the grounds of its remarkable public favor , as they are the guarantees for its permanent popular- ity . - Blackwood's Magazine . Alison's Life of Marlborough . His work forms a magnificent portal to the present ; it ...
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... style at once picturesque and intelligi- ble to all who have the slightest rudimentary knowl- edge of the vast subject to which he has devoted so much labor . - Daily News , London . The key - note of the general scheme of distribution ...
... style at once picturesque and intelligi- ble to all who have the slightest rudimentary knowl- edge of the vast subject to which he has devoted so much labor . - Daily News , London . The key - note of the general scheme of distribution ...
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Page 190 - The Greek Testament : with a critically revised Text ; a Digest of Various Readings ; Marginal References to Verbal and Idiomatic Usage ; Prolegomena ;"and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers. By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 136 - The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By EH PALMER, MA, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of St.
Page 67 - MOTLEY'S DUTCH REPUBLIC. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With a Portrait of William of Orange.
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Page 67 - Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years
Page 92 - Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion derived from the Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy, particularly as Illustrated by the History of the Jews, and the Discoveries of Recent Travellers.
Page 128 - Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border. Comprising Descriptions of the Indian Nomads of the Plains; Explorations of New Territory; a Trip across the Rocky Mountains in the Winter; Descriptions of the Habits of Different Animals...
Page 115 - ... no one can become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another ; and when she has equally repudiated modern thought and ancient history.