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... British grumbler , keeping well out of earshot of the Captain , asserts himself very freely . An ungracious , un- christian frame of mind ; but what would you have ? The struggle with garments and bath , at- tending each rising up and ...
... British grumbler , keeping well out of earshot of the Captain , asserts himself very freely . An ungracious , un- christian frame of mind ; but what would you have ? The struggle with garments and bath , at- tending each rising up and ...
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... British coney , and an easy prey to man or beast . We saw one coursed down in about three minutes by a mongrel lurcher , scarce out of puppyhood , who , without invitation , had attached himself to our party . It was winter again , when ...
... British coney , and an easy prey to man or beast . We saw one coursed down in about three minutes by a mongrel lurcher , scarce out of puppyhood , who , without invitation , had attached himself to our party . It was winter again , when ...
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... British shareholder , who is wont to grumble at tardy or intermitted shipments of ore , had ridden in our company that day , I think , being a just man , he would have repented and recanted . To me it seemed simply incredible that the ...
... British shareholder , who is wont to grumble at tardy or intermitted shipments of ore , had ridden in our company that day , I think , being a just man , he would have repented and recanted . To me it seemed simply incredible that the ...
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... British capital has been risked lavishly , often enough of late , on wilder ventures , with less tempting prospect of prompt and large return . Albeit in poor visiting form , I contrived to struggle through the mud , in some places axle ...
... British capital has been risked lavishly , often enough of late , on wilder ventures , with less tempting prospect of prompt and large return . Albeit in poor visiting form , I contrived to struggle through the mud , in some places axle ...
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... British perfidy ; but the drilling of a squad , or the giving a decent word of command , was not in their province ; and tactics were to the majority what Pure Mathematics are to the vulgar . Things are wonderfully changed now . The ...
... British perfidy ; but the drilling of a squad , or the giving a decent word of command , was not in their province ; and tactics were to the majority what Pure Mathematics are to the vulgar . Things are wonderfully changed now . The ...
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Stran 256 - DIETZ.— A Practical Manual of Chemical Analysis and Assaying : As applied to the Manufacture of Iron from its Ores, and to Cast Iron, Wrought Iron, and Steel, as found in Commerce. By LL DE KONINCK, Dr.
Stran 15 - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STYLES: An Introduction to the Study of the History of Ornamental Art. Royal 8vo, 8s.
Stran 12 - The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. Being the Second Series of a Descriptive History of the Life of the Globe.
Stran 7 - HARDY (CAPT. C.)— FOREST LIFE IN ACADIE ; and Sketches of Sport and Natural History in the Lower Provinces of the Canadian Dominion. With Illustrations.
Stran 11 - MEREDITH (GEORGE)— MODERN LOVE AND POEMS OF THE ENGLISH ROADSIDE, WITH POEMS AND BALLADS.
Stran 18 - ANALYSIS OF ORNAMENT: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STYLES. An Introduction to the Study of the History of Ornamental Art. With many Illustrations.
Stran 11 - MORLEY (HENRY)— ENGLISH WRITERS. Vol. I. Part I. THE CELTS AND ANGLO-SAXONS. With an Introductory Sketch of the Four Periods of English Literature. Part II. FROM THE CONQUEST TO CHAUCER. (Making 2 vols.) 8vo, cloth, ^i as.
Stran 13 - DYCE'S Final Corrections. %* This edition is not a mere reprint of that which appeared in 1857, but presents a text very materially altered and amended from beginning to end, with a large body of critical Notes almost entirely new, and a Glossary, in which the language of the poet, his allusions to customs, &c., are fully explained.
Stran 258 - Translated by the late BB Woodward, and Edited by Henry Woodward. With 234 Maps and Illustrations and 23 Page Maps printed in Colors.
Stran 10 - OF 1857. ^First Principles of Observational Seismology, as developed in the Report to the Royal Society of London, of the Expedition made into the Interior of the Kingdom of Naples, to investigate the circumstances of the great Earthquake of December, 1857.