A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) Being Records of the Younger Wedgwoods and Their Friends: Embracing the History of the Discovery of Photography and a Facsimile of the First PhotographLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 416 páginas |
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... seen this preciousness of truth , this realism of fact , as we occasionally see it , what might not have been preserved of human histories dear to us ? Could we recover some little fire - side conversations and incidents of our ...
... seen this preciousness of truth , this realism of fact , as we occasionally see it , what might not have been preserved of human histories dear to us ? Could we recover some little fire - side conversations and incidents of our ...
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... seen by its chief promoters . Apart from their varied and high capacity in adapting means to ends , the result of which was proved by the creation of many colossal private fortunes , and a great increase of individual pros- perity and ...
... seen by its chief promoters . Apart from their varied and high capacity in adapting means to ends , the result of which was proved by the creation of many colossal private fortunes , and a great increase of individual pros- perity and ...
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... seen that his substitute in Staffordshire must be a man of taste and extensive cultivation . Mr. Byerley was not this . He was painstaking and laborious , really earnest in his desire that Etruria should not lose her old fame for works ...
... seen that his substitute in Staffordshire must be a man of taste and extensive cultivation . Mr. Byerley was not this . He was painstaking and laborious , really earnest in his desire that Etruria should not lose her old fame for works ...
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... seen since , and all I felt even then , have satisfied me that there is no solid and graceful foundation for boys ' minds like classical learning , grammatically acquired ; and that all the modern substitutes of what is called useful ...
... seen since , and all I felt even then , have satisfied me that there is no solid and graceful foundation for boys ' minds like classical learning , grammatically acquired ; and that all the modern substitutes of what is called useful ...
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... seen any young man possessed of more than he is . It is then my opinion , which I draw from observations made here on others , that the best method will be to study the whole approaching summer in England , not merely design , but every ...
... seen any young man possessed of more than he is . It is then my opinion , which I draw from observations made here on others , that the best method will be to study the whole approaching summer in England , not merely design , but every ...
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