Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 pagini |
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... writing , so graceful an adornment of our older literature , has dwindled down to the proverbial hurried scrawl ' of ... writing of letters ; wherein they should not be put upon any strains of wit or compliment , but taught to express ...
... writing , so graceful an adornment of our older literature , has dwindled down to the proverbial hurried scrawl ' of ... writing of letters ; wherein they should not be put upon any strains of wit or compliment , but taught to express ...
Pagina ix
... writing of letters has so much to do in all the occurrences of human life , that no gentleman can avoid showing himself in this kind of writing : occasions will daily force him to make use of his pen , which , besides the consequences ...
... writing of letters has so much to do in all the occurrences of human life , that no gentleman can avoid showing himself in this kind of writing : occasions will daily force him to make use of his pen , which , besides the consequences ...
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... [ Written from Eton College . ] Nov. 7 , 1478 . Ryght reverent and worchepful brodyr , -I recomaunde me on to you , desyrynge to here of yowre welfare and prosperite ; letynge yow wete that I have resevyd of Alwedyr a lettyr , and a ...
... [ Written from Eton College . ] Nov. 7 , 1478 . Ryght reverent and worchepful brodyr , -I recomaunde me on to you , desyrynge to here of yowre welfare and prosperite ; letynge yow wete that I have resevyd of Alwedyr a lettyr , and a ...
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... written by Sir Thomas ' More to his wife on receipt of the news that the greater part of his house at Chelsea ( with the outhouses and granaries ) had been destroyed by fire . The biographer is more attracted by the unusually simple ...
... written by Sir Thomas ' More to his wife on receipt of the news that the greater part of his house at Chelsea ( with the outhouses and granaries ) had been destroyed by fire . The biographer is more attracted by the unusually simple ...
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... written in your grace's name , I came to Lambeth yesterday , and do there remain to know your grace's farther pleasure . And forasmuch as , without your grace's commandment , I dare not , contrary to the contents of the said letters ...
... written in your grace's name , I came to Lambeth yesterday , and do there remain to know your grace's farther pleasure . And forasmuch as , without your grace's commandment , I dare not , contrary to the contents of the said letters ...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1893 |
Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1880 |
Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1893 |
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Pagina 238 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Pagina 32 - XXIII. STUDIES IN SPECTRUM ANALYSIS. By J. Norman Lockyer, FRS With six photographic Illustrations of Spectra, and numerous engravings on Wood.
Pagina 21 - A Consul's Manual and Shipowner's and Shipmaster's Practical Guide in their Transactions Abroad. With Definitions of Nautical, Mercantile, and Legal Terms ; a Glossary of Mercantile Terms in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish ; Tables of the Money, Weights...
Pagina 28 - STEVENSON (Rev. WF). Hymns for the Church and Home. Selected and Edited by the Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson. The most complete Hymn Book published. The Hymn Book consists of Three Parts : — I.
Pagina 24 - MORELL, JR— Euclid Simplified in Method and Language. Being a Manual of Geometry. Compiled from the most important French Works, approved by the University of Paris and the Minister of Public Instruction.
Pagina 267 - Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant. His leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend ; think how unpleasant a situation! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Pagina 32 - XVIII. The Nature of Light : With a General Account of Physical Optics.
Pagina 29 - VYNER (Lady Mary). Every day a Portion. Adapted from the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the Private Devotions of those living in Widowhood. Collected and edited by Lady Mary Vyner. Square crown 8vo. Cloth extra, price 5$.
Pagina 33 - Vera." 2 vols. Fifth Edition. Cloth, gilt tops, I2j. *„* Also a Cheaper Edition in i vol. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BLU ME (Major W.). The Operations of the German Armies in France, from Sedan to the end of the war of 187071. With Map. From the Journals of the Head-quarters Staff. Translated by the late EM Jones, Maj.
Pagina 12 - LIFE AND LETTERS OF THE LATE REV. FW ROBERTSON, MA, Edited by. I. Uniform with the Sermons. 2 vols. With Steel Portrait. Price Js. 6ti. II. Library Edition. 8vo. With Portrait. Price 12.-.