An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction: Including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and ConversationTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 410 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xix
... hand , heart , & c . , is a pure aspiration produced by an emission of breath through whatever configuration of the vocal channel may be requisite for uttering a succeeding vowel or semivowel , the organs being always adjusted to the ...
... hand , heart , & c . , is a pure aspiration produced by an emission of breath through whatever configuration of the vocal channel may be requisite for uttering a succeeding vowel or semivowel , the organs being always adjusted to the ...
الصفحة xxviii
... hand , and v , on the other , the inner surfaces of the lips being brought flat against each other , whereas in ( Eng . ) w they are rounded , in b the edges are compressed , and in v the lower lip comes in contact with the upper teeth ...
... hand , and v , on the other , the inner surfaces of the lips being brought flat against each other , whereas in ( Eng . ) w they are rounded , in b the edges are compressed , and in v the lower lip comes in contact with the upper teeth ...
الصفحة 1
... hand , was by no means inclined to descend from his high position . He was , in- deed , under a delusion much resembling that of Abon Hassan in the Arabian tale . His brain was turned by his short and unreal caliphate . Macaulay ...
... hand , was by no means inclined to descend from his high position . He was , in- deed , under a delusion much resembling that of Abon Hassan in the Arabian tale . His brain was turned by his short and unreal caliphate . Macaulay ...
الصفحة 7
... contest . In his dying mo- ments , he requests baptism at the hand of his conqueror , who , with great tenderness and for the Remarks and Rules to which the numbers after certain words refer , see pp . xiv -xxxii . ÆM AGR 7.
... contest . In his dying mo- ments , he requests baptism at the hand of his conqueror , who , with great tenderness and for the Remarks and Rules to which the numbers after certain words refer , see pp . xiv -xxxii . ÆM AGR 7.
الصفحة 8
... hand of his conqueror , who , with great tenderness , bestows it . He is represented as bringing into the field no fewer than two million two hun- dred thousand troops . Such forces met not , nor so wide a camp , When Agrican , with all ...
... hand of his conqueror , who , with great tenderness , bestows it . He is represented as bringing into the field no fewer than two million two hun- dred thousand troops . Such forces met not , nor so wide a camp , When Agrican , with all ...
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الصفحة 268 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
الصفحة 377 - City, as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein, should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long...
الصفحة 84 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
الصفحة 10 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
الصفحة 389 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
الصفحة 217 - Why, by that shake of the head, he gave you to understand that even though they had more justice in their cause, and wisdom in their measures — yet, if there was not a greater spirit shown on the part of the people, the country would at last fall a sacrifice to the hostile ambition of the Spanish monarchy.
الصفحة 122 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
الصفحة 212 - Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
الصفحة 277 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
الصفحة 153 - Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.