Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Svazek 23

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Strana 491 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 491 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
Strana 436 - This is a practical book giving complete and simple directions for making all the most useful and ornamental knots in common use, with chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.
Strana 44 - ... approved August 10. 1917. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first paragraph of the act entitled "An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel...
Strana 22 - A Select Collection of English Songs, with their Original Airs; and a Historical Essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song.
Strana 126 - The universities. — The structure of society. —The family. — The French temperament. — The relation of literature to life. — The question of religion. — The revolution and its effects. — The republic and democracy.
Strana 199 - Fiske, it is needless to say that to an extraordi1316-1322 a nary degree he has succeeded In his endeavor to make plain the events of the American Revolution. His style is so transparent and limpid that it seems to disparage all claims to attention. Save as all language is largely metaphorical, there is scarcely a figure in the two volumes. There is no straining after effect, — nothing but the simplest narrative of events which are expected to be attractive in themselves and not to need the ornament...
Strana 200 - CONTENTS: Europe before the Arrival of Man; The Arrival of Man in Europe ; Our Aryan Forefathers ; What we learn from Old Aryan Words ; Was there a Primeval Mother-Tongue...
Strana 467 - Reports to the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, being the official explanatory and interpretative commentary accompanying the draft conventions and declarations submitted to the Conferences by the several commissions charged with preparing them, together with the texts of the Final Acts, Conventions and Declarations as signed, and of the principal proposals offered by the delegations of the various Powers as well as of other documents laid before the commissions.
Strana 307 - soon followed, and " imagine my delight," he writes, " in receiving one hundred dollars in cash ! Though this song was not successful," he continues, " yet the two fifty-dollar bills I received for it had the effect of starting me on my present vocation of song-writer.

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