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... originals . His position in this was doubtless accentuated by his own innate modesty and unconsciousness of his great worth and usefulness . His refusals were more than once based on the statement , 6 ' Nobody wanted to have his ...
... originals . His position in this was doubtless accentuated by his own innate modesty and unconsciousness of his great worth and usefulness . His refusals were more than once based on the statement , 6 ' Nobody wanted to have his ...
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... original impressions , he had an eye of unerring accuracy . In the exercise of his judgment he was aided by his knowledge of paper , of the dates of imprints , and of the manifold biographical details relating to artists and their works ...
... original impressions , he had an eye of unerring accuracy . In the exercise of his judgment he was aided by his knowledge of paper , of the dates of imprints , and of the manifold biographical details relating to artists and their works ...
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... original . His memory was both retentive and reproductive . He was slow in absorbing facts , but once absorbed they were his forever . If you handed him a book or a passage to read , you observed that he took more than double the time ...
... original . His memory was both retentive and reproductive . He was slow in absorbing facts , but once absorbed they were his forever . If you handed him a book or a passage to read , you observed that he took more than double the time ...
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... original and sagacious . It had occurred to no one else , and it is an example to be followed by other librarians ... originals in the State Paper Office in London . He alone raised the money to pay the expense of so doing , and ...
... original and sagacious . It had occurred to no one else , and it is an example to be followed by other librarians ... originals in the State Paper Office in London . He alone raised the money to pay the expense of so doing , and ...
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... original sources of information , the extent and variety of his researches , his critical acumen , his caution in statement , and the general soundness of his judgments . It was here that his habitual modesty was of value . He doubted ...
... original sources of information , the extent and variety of his researches , his critical acumen , his caution in statement , and the general soundness of his judgments . It was here that his habitual modesty was of value . He doubted ...
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Página xvi - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 212 - And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States of America, or the General or other superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of War. This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being.
Página 35 - House a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.
Página 171 - To enter into a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation agreement or association, 2. To prepare an address to the people of Great Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of British America, and 3. To prepare a loyal address to his Majesty, agreeable to resolutions already entered into.
Página 100 - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
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Página 43 - To this I may add, and very truly, that, until within the last year or two, I had no conception that parties would or even could go the length I have been witness to ; nor did I believe until lately, that it was within the bounds of probability, hardly within those of possibility, that, while I was using my utmost exertions to establish a national character of our...
Página 493 - A hundred men with each a pen, Or more upon my word, sir, It is most true would be too few, Their valor to record, sir.
Página 440 - , son of the Earl of Bute ; a gentleman truly worthy of being known to Johnson ; being, with all the advantages of high birth, learning, travel, and elegant manners, an exemplary parish priest in every respect.
Página xxv - That there is '' but this difference between the death of old men " and young men ; that old men go to death, and