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The Quarterly Review

... tribe , through fear that they should lose the exclusive privilege of trading with these tribes . Indeed , every tribe tries to prevent all strangers from communicating with the tribe next in advance of them . ' It was necessary to get ...

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... Buttman , we find , on reference to his Dissertation , ' has likewise anticipated our opinion , that the books of odes contain many poems written at different periods in the life of Horace , finished up for publication on the appearance ...

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... force , as well as of opinion , ready to array itself against the Jacobin ... savage spirit of persecution with which the first mistaken measures of the ... destiny , the Marquis Alexandre de Beauharnais . 6 ' Who could have predicted at ...

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... chain , That held enthrall'd my cheated heart so long , And charm'd my erring ... la cadena fiera Cantando mis engaños , Lloré con mi razon tus sinrazones ... alabanzas canto . • Quanto contento encierra Contar su herida el sano , Y en ...

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... vizier not ? In a wild whirlpool helpless have we sunk- Is there midst ours ... game of chess , from which these metaphors are derived . ' The third verse ... Table . In some sets of chess - men , which come from Russia , instead of ...

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... The leaders of his own party were as much the objects of his caustic sarcasm as Mr. Gladstone and the magnates of the Ministry . Somehow or other his attacks struck home . No single man did so much to upset what we may call the Gladstonian ...

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... Beast , ' of whose roses we have all heard ? . 6 6 The rose , however , sprung from the blood of Adonis , was the flower of Aphrodite before the Dwarf King had planted his mysterious garden . A new origin was devised for it in Christian ...

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... half an hour . At Bady they had some squabbling with the chief and the people ... bees near where the cattle had halted . The bees came out in immense numbers ... five of the soldiers , who had slept under a tree in the rain , fell sick ...

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... gallows ? Without pretending to decide this question legally , it is certain that madness is not always accompanied by delusion , and that it is not necessary to prove insane belief to make out insanity . On this subject , Dr. Gooch has ...

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... Moorish mourning , 178 , 179 - account of a Moor- ish wedding , 179 - toilet of a Moorish lady , 180 - interior of a Moorish harem , and the pursuits of the women , 181 , 182 - treatment of women by the Moors of Tunis , 181 - singular ...

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... America unex- plored by Europeans , 462 . Guillotine , 3000 perished by in ... guillotine Angers , 49.00 " number daily guillotined in Paris during the ... proof of its increased value , v . 248 . deduction for wearing , 256 . time ...

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... earth acting as walls to confine the contents . It is then covered with ... salt is sprinkled over each layer . As the stack rises in height , it is necessary to hoist up and lower down the horses , morning and evening , which is done by ...

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... City of God . ' Mr. Lilly points out further , that these two philosophies are both of them exhibited by St. Augustine in two connections - the one subjective and personal , the other external ; the one relating to the Christian , the ...

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... chords , until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony . ' And he goes on , in words which recall Corot's rhapsodies of the twilight hour- ' And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor ...

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... tse - Keang & Hwang - Ho . 10. Thomson - Otago , New Zealand . Map . 11. Moesta - West Coast of S. America . 12. Jameson - Quito to the River Napo . 13. Power - San Salvador . 14. Gehuchte - Guatemala . 15. Hopkins - Trade Winds . 16 ...

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... classical tone , 157 , 158 – English poetry from 1720 to 1800 , 160 the age transitionary , 160— conventional diction , 161 - various characteristics of the poems of the - EPIGRAMS . age , 161 - didactic poems , 163– wider range of ...

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... summary of the Trojan war , and of the Return , a kind of brief ' Ixiou Tégos and Nooro . In the palace of Alcinous , Demo- docus is all but the most important personage . Without his presence Alcinous cannot receive with due honours ...

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William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John ... Mac Donald , of Dranichan . Rod . Mac Leod , of Hamer . Dond . Mac Leod , of Sandick . Dond . Mac Leod , of Ebosk ...

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... Phul- too , went to the rescue . He was immediately promoted by General Hearsey to the rank of havildar ( serjeant ) ... routine , and it was discovered that the 34th had been at work among them . The names of fourteen of these ' passive ...

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... day , by saying that a particular herb grows there , which contributes this rare ... Hesiod's standard of good wives , for he con- sidered it the worst feature ... Works and Days , ' 375 . Greek Greek islander remains still in the same ...

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... Hellas now refers the pottery and metal work of all that period no longer to any Semitic art , but to European . In their view the essential elements of prehistoric civilization in Greece , from its latest back to its earliest period ...

A School-dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger Dictionary

... BUTTMAN'S IRREGULAR GREEK VERBS ; WITH ALL THE TENSES - THEIR FORMATION , MEANING , AND USAGE , WITH AN INDEX . Translated , with Notes , by J. R. FISHLAKE , M.A. Second Edition . 8vo , 7s . 6d . " Buttman's Catalogue contains all those ...

Stoic Six Pack 7: The Sophists

Xenophon, Plato, William Smith, William De Witt Hyde, Henry Sidgwick. With ... please you—if I answer what is not to the point? That will please me very well; but ... answers? My fear is that this word 'always' may get us into trouble. You ...

Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History

... level presents at least one point of resemblance to the Nile . i at which the encampment was to be pitched ; the crowding , the fighting , the ciamor , the bitter dis- appointment round the modicum of water when at last the desired spot ...

A First Greek Course: Comprehending Grammar, Delectus, and Exercise Book with Vocabularies (1892)

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Earinus-Nyx

... analysis had been applied , that the conic sec- thas had been thought of , that the Elements had been distinguished from the rest and written on . From what Hippocrates had done , we know that the important property of the right ...

The Structure and Biochemistry of Cartilage

... Biochemistry , 49 , 417 . MADINAVEITIA , J. & STACEY , M. ( 1944 ) . Biochemical Journal , 38 , 413 . MALEY , F ... Biochemistry and Biophysics , 61 , 367 . MATHEWS , M. B. ( 1958 ) . Nature ( London ) , 181 , 421 . MATHEWS , M. B. ...

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

... the goddess . Her altar consisted of the ashes of the victims which had been ... inheritance are to be explained under this title . The subject may be ... inheritance as well as citizenship and might even raise a doubt of her legitimacy ...

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, etc

... Nero , 12 ) ; and likewise the per- son who exhibited the games , on a place elevated like a pulpit or tribunal ( editoris tribunal ) . The vestal virgins also appear to have had a place allotted to them on the podium . ( Suet . Octav ...

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

... imperium.1 it on a sudden , seized it by the throat , and immedi- ately killed it . Thus much for the ancient story . Modern experience , on the other hand , proves that , without having recourse to a cuirass of mud , the Ichneumon ...

The book of recitations [ed.] by C.W. Smith

... air , Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye , That tears shall drown the wind . I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent , but only Vaulting ambition , which o'erleaps itself , ' And falls on the other.2 - How ... Air-Drawn Dagger.

Student Handbook to Economics: Entrepreneurship

... Organizational Architecture. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008. BusinessMart, Advantages and Disadvantages of a Start-up Business. Retrieved July 2010 from http://buying.businessmart.com/advantagesdisadvantages-of-a-start-up- ...

A Compendium of the Law of Real and Personal Property Primarily Connected with Conveyancing: Designed as a Second Book for Students, and as a Digest of the Most Useful Learning for Practitioners

... linen , " without qualification , will comprise " Linen . " body linen , table and bed linen , and every article to which that general word can be applied ( e ) . 3012 . " Plate , " of itself , will not include plated articles ( ƒ ) ...

A Copius and Critical English-Latin Dictionary, to which is Added a Dictionary of Proper Names

... a c . of rope , Pacuv . in Fest . 2. orbis , is , ( poet ) : to drag huge ... cet : v . TO COIN . V. COLD . 2. algor : v . COLD . 3 . gělu , ūs , n ... neta : v . MONEY , COIN . HI . Inven- ( N.B. The word occurs in pl . only , and tion ...

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Abaeus-Dysponteus

... tomb of Midas , of which Homer was considered by others to have been the ... horrors of civil war . ( Xen . Hell . ii . 4. §§ 20-22 . ) His person was as ... ( 4e . 876 ) , may perhaps be best explained as an allusion to his stature . ( See ...

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