Passages from the Life of Charles KnightG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874 - 480 páginas |
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... Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ; and soon after edited and published " The British Almanac " and Companion , " and " The Library of Entertaining Knowledge . " Through twenty years - until , indeed , the Society thought ...
... Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ; and soon after edited and published " The British Almanac " and Companion , " and " The Library of Entertaining Knowledge . " Through twenty years - until , indeed , the Society thought ...
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... Society's reputation . I availed myself — perhaps more than most of the publishers of that period - of the revived process of wood - engraving , to diffuse popular Art as well as popular Literature . In this species of enterprise " The ...
... Society's reputation . I availed myself — perhaps more than most of the publishers of that period - of the revived process of wood - engraving , to diffuse popular Art as well as popular Literature . In this species of enterprise " The ...
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... Society in the Past , and so , by comparison , to estimate the Present more accurately and impartially than a view mainly directed to current things might attain . Whilst engaged in writing the History of my Country , I had also to keep ...
... Society in the Past , and so , by comparison , to estimate the Present more accurately and impartially than a view mainly directed to current things might attain . Whilst engaged in writing the History of my Country , I had also to keep ...
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... society my father had enjoyed only for a few years — the daughter of a wealthy yeoman , of Iver , in Buckinghamshire . The " yeoman " of those days , although a landed proprietor , did not aspire to be called " esquire . " He would now ...
... society my father had enjoyed only for a few years — the daughter of a wealthy yeoman , of Iver , in Buckinghamshire . The " yeoman " of those days , although a landed proprietor , did not aspire to be called " esquire . " He would now ...
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... Society of Antiquaries , who were forced to acknowledge that they were only a loan ; and they are now among the heir - looms of the people at Hampton Court . I hope that I had not faith enough in the ideal of Lely and Wissing to believe ...
... Society of Antiquaries , who were forced to acknowledge that they were only a loan ; and they are now among the heir - looms of the people at Hampton Court . I hope that I had not faith enough in the ideal of Lely and Wissing to believe ...
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Página 100 - Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
Página 13 - For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 102 - Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany .old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Página 283 - THE OBJECT of the Society is strictly limited to what its title imports, namely, the imparting useful information to all classes of the community, particularly to such as are unable to avail themselves of experienced teachers, or may prefer learning by themselves.