American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, Volumes 15 à 16

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George W. Childs, 1870

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Page 342 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 337 - ... the Court before whom such trial shall be had, shall order such person to be kept in strict custody, in such place, and in such manner, as to the Court shall seem fit, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known...
Page 349 - Augustin. A DOMINICAN ARTIST : a Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Pere Besson, of the Order of St. Dominic.
Page 257 - I emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner; that no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial; that at the utmost not more than three plain mourning coaches be employed; and that those who attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of "Mr.
Page 216 - The aim of this delightful series of books is to explain, sufficiently for general readers, who these great writers were, and what they wrote ; to give, wherever possible, some connected outline of the story which they tell, or the facts which they record, checked by the results of modern investigations ; to present some of their most striking -passages in approved English translations, and to illustrate them generally from modern writers; to serve, in short, as a popular retrospect of the chief...
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Page 267 - Wyatt (Sir M. Digby).— FINE ART: a Sketch of its History, Theory, Practice, and application to Industry. A Course of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. By Sir M. DIGBY WYATT, MA Slade Professor of Fine Art. 8vo. ids. 6d. "An excellent handbook for the student of art.
Page 43 - Other Worlds than Ours ; The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches.
Page 48 - Sketches of Creation: a Popular View of some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of ihe Intimations of Science respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System.
Page 37 - BIBLE ANIMALS; being a Description of every Living Creature mentioned in the Scriptures, from the Ape to the Coral.

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