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... Italian grammar , printed and published in New York , alleging that its redemption would be an invasion of the copy - right - no redemption for it was allowed . All else passed . The official eagerly scized one or two articles of ...
... Italian grammar , printed and published in New York , alleging that its redemption would be an invasion of the copy - right - no redemption for it was allowed . All else passed . The official eagerly scized one or two articles of ...
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... Italian , or the Spaniard , without wincing , but when the Arab opens his mouth , I want to stop both ears and run away . I would here remark , however , that in attempting to learn the lan- guage , one must be on the alert , or he will ...
... Italian , or the Spaniard , without wincing , but when the Arab opens his mouth , I want to stop both ears and run away . I would here remark , however , that in attempting to learn the lan- guage , one must be on the alert , or he will ...
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... Italian style of the sixteenth century . The garden of the Tuilleries , however , was free to our ingress . It contains about sixty - seven acres , extending over two thousand feet in length and nine hundred in breadth . Two parallel ...
... Italian style of the sixteenth century . The garden of the Tuilleries , however , was free to our ingress . It contains about sixty - seven acres , extending over two thousand feet in length and nine hundred in breadth . Two parallel ...
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... ITALY , IN 1797 , at the age of 28 ; he mADE THE EXPEDITION TO EGYPT IN 1798 , AT THE AGE OF 29 ; WAS NOMIN- ATED FIRST CONSUL IN 1798 , AT 30 ; CONSUL FOR LIFE , AFTER THE BATTLE OF MARENGO , IN 1800 , AT THE AGE OF 31 ; EMPEROR IN ...
... ITALY , IN 1797 , at the age of 28 ; he mADE THE EXPEDITION TO EGYPT IN 1798 , AT THE AGE OF 29 ; WAS NOMIN- ATED FIRST CONSUL IN 1798 , AT 30 ; CONSUL FOR LIFE , AFTER THE BATTLE OF MARENGO , IN 1800 , AT THE AGE OF 31 ; EMPEROR IN ...
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... gallery containing the paintings of the older Italian Flemish , Spanish , and French schools , is nearly a quarter of a mile in extent . Here and there I observed an English traveller , passing from tableau to tableau , and consulting.
... gallery containing the paintings of the older Italian Flemish , Spanish , and French schools , is nearly a quarter of a mile in extent . Here and there I observed an English traveller , passing from tableau to tableau , and consulting.
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Page 390 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith.'.
Page 568 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 507 - And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Page 149 - Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write ,upon him my new name.
Page 291 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 262 - Son of man, dig now in the wall." And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door: and he said unto me, "Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 106 - NOBLES AND COMMONERS OF THE REALM RAISED THIS MONUMENT TO JAMES WATT WHO DIRECTING THE FORCE OF AN ORIGINAL GENIUS EARLY EXERCISED IN PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STEAM ENGINE ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD BORN At GREENOCK MDCCXXXVI DIED AT HEATHFIELD IN STAFFORDSHIRE MDCCCXIX.
Page 102 - Like sheep they are laid in the grave ; Death shall feed on them; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning ; And their cbeauty shall consume din the grave from their dwelling.
Page 264 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Page 262 - So I went in and saw ; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.