Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 39John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1856 - American periodicals |
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... called instinctive peculiarities , or acquired habits . Thus Girou relates the case of a sporting dog , taken young from its mother and father , who was singularly obstinate , and exhibited the greatest ter- ror at every explosion of ...
... called instinctive peculiarities , or acquired habits . Thus Girou relates the case of a sporting dog , taken young from its mother and father , who was singularly obstinate , and exhibited the greatest ter- ror at every explosion of ...
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... called nullities , thus the male cub , which had all the ap- because they have not manifested the pearance of a dog , was fierce and untame- great talents of their fathers ; but allow- able as the wolf ; the female cub , which ing for ...
... called nullities , thus the male cub , which had all the ap- because they have not manifested the pearance of a dog , was fierce and untame- great talents of their fathers ; but allow- able as the wolf ; the female cub , which ing for ...
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... called " budding " takes the common remark : " talent runs in place : the child here grows out of the families . " The proverbial phrases , l'esprit substance of the parent , until its develop- des Mortemarts , " and the " wit of the ...
... called " budding " takes the common remark : " talent runs in place : the child here grows out of the families . " The proverbial phrases , l'esprit substance of the parent , until its develop- des Mortemarts , " and the " wit of the ...
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... called National Character . The Jew , whether in Poland , in Vienna , in London , or in Paris , never altogether merges his original peculiarities in that of the people among whom he dwells . He can only do this by intermarriage , which ...
... called National Character . The Jew , whether in Poland , in Vienna , in London , or in Paris , never altogether merges his original peculiarities in that of the people among whom he dwells . He can only do this by intermarriage , which ...
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... called him lukewarm ! At fourteen years of age , Daniel De Foe ( or Foe as he was then called , ) entered the once famous dissenting academy at Newington ; and after four years ' study left that nursery , by no means a good classic ...
... called him lukewarm ! At fourteen years of age , Daniel De Foe ( or Foe as he was then called , ) entered the once famous dissenting academy at Newington ; and after four years ' study left that nursery , by no means a good classic ...
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Page 120 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter ! All his
Page 162 - be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue ;" and, go where he would, his memory was stored with every description of image or incident, that could evoke or
Page 285 - of its founders, and the first mention of the name Coliseum occurs in the fragments of the Venerable Bede, who records the famous prophecy of the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims : 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world.
Page 165 - beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." The illustrated edition of " Italy" was, we believe, the first instance in which (since Boydell's time) first class artists were engaged without regard to expense for such a purpose. It was speedily followed by a corresponding edition of the " Poems ;" and every succeeding reprint of
Page 286 - I stood within the Coliseum's wall, Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arche* Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the star» Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars
Page 394 - in length —the work of his own hands—that very " optic glass," through which the " Tuscan Artist" viewed the moon, " At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe"— that poor
Page 120 - all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter ! All his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
Page 154 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art" Nor have many schools retained their influence longer ; for Crabbe was wittily described as " Pope in worsted stockings ;" and the spell was not completely broken
Page 536 - May never guid luck be their fa' ! It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue. " Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa ; Here's a health to Charlie, the chief o
Page 157 - Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of flight, rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest." These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic feeling, used to say were equal to the closing