Book Auction Records, Volumen 12Frank Karslake Wm. Dawson, 1915 A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions. |
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... England families . It is only natural that a library which claims not only to be preeminently Theological in the matter of its contents but sui generis among the religious libra- ries of the country should possess a fine and valuable ...
... England families . It is only natural that a library which claims not only to be preeminently Theological in the matter of its contents but sui generis among the religious libra- ries of the country should possess a fine and valuable ...
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... England . His immediate successor was James Cranford , who " reigned " for three years . He is known as the author of a " Confutation of the Anabap- tists , " " Hæres Hæreseomachia , " and various sermons and tracts . Samuel Clarke who ...
... England . His immediate successor was James Cranford , who " reigned " for three years . He is known as the author of a " Confutation of the Anabap- tists , " " Hæres Hæreseomachia , " and various sermons and tracts . Samuel Clarke who ...
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... England , etc. , etc./ Gentle Reader . Ope thou but the first few pages- aye , but the few first , I've a nail in my left hand , a hammer in my right , and , by all that is agreeable to the imagination , I'll nail thee down so firmly ...
... England , etc. , etc./ Gentle Reader . Ope thou but the first few pages- aye , but the few first , I've a nail in my left hand , a hammer in my right , and , by all that is agreeable to the imagination , I'll nail thee down so firmly ...
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... ENGLAND IS AT WAR , for I don't think the fact has dawned on some folk yet , and that among those called out on active service is your humble servant . This circumstance , while it doesn't actually stop progress of Index considerably ...
... ENGLAND IS AT WAR , for I don't think the fact has dawned on some folk yet , and that among those called out on active service is your humble servant . This circumstance , while it doesn't actually stop progress of Index considerably ...
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... England , and in the same year issued a leviathan copy of Hurd's " Universal History of the Religious Rites , Ceremonies , and Customs of the Whole World " ( 936 double - column pages ) . The only other mammoth production by Hemingway ...
... England , and in the same year issued a leviathan copy of Hurd's " Universal History of the Religious Rites , Ceremonies , and Customs of the Whole World " ( 936 double - column pages ) . The only other mammoth production by Hemingway ...
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Página 234 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality.
Página lxv - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Página 85 - Leaves of Grass," a book of singular service, a book which tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation of all the original and manly virtues.
Página 62 - England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America...
Página 234 - ... style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of parts.
Página lxviii - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Página 388 - Journals of Major Robert Rogers : Containing An Account of the Several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America during the late War.
Página 225 - In she plunged boldly — No matter how coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it, Picture it, — think of it, Dissolute Man! Lave in it, — drink of it, Then, if you can!
Página 217 - Six Old Plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Taming the Shrew, King John, K.
Página 103 - Sargent was down again and painted a portrait of me walking about in my own dining-room, in my own velveteen jacket, and twisting as I go my own moustache ; at one corner a glimpse of my wife, in an Indian dress, and seated in a chair that was once my grandfather's, but since some months goes by the name of Henry James's — for it was there the novelist loved to sit — adds a touch of poesy and comicality.