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John Collier , Sir E. J. Poynter , Michael Angelo , Raphael , Rubens , Canova , Guido Reni , Phidias , Bernini , Titian , Velasquez , etc. etc. Demy 8vo, 8⅝ × 5¾ inches, 416 pp.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
There was an air of dignified modesty and almost of beauty about this young woman, spite of her leather leggins, queer moccasons, and rough reindeer clothes.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
Presbyterian CM Calvin Methodist PB Primitive Baptist CMA Christian Missionary Alliance R Reformed CNJ Church of New Jerusalem RUB Radical United Brethren CS Christian Science
— from Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill
I. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXVII All Rights reserved CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAP.
— from True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Robert Cleland
To-day most of these men are really respectable citizens.
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train
doomed to damnation because he would not accept the religion that he hath given to the world; after we have bought clothing in one of his stores, taken a personal peep at the Ghetto, met a reformed rabbi, conversed with a distant descendant of his people, read the polite charges of his friend, the anti-Semite, and gone down and made beautiful speeches before him prior to the election; I say even after we have done these things, or some of these things have happened to us, we must still ask the question: What constitutes the Jew?
— from Discourses of Keidansky by Bernard G. Richards
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— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 by Robert Louis Stevenson
But if the motion of the earth from west to east be allowed, the same question may be put, for it must also revolve round certain poles, and why should they be placed where they are, rather than elsewhere?
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon
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