The Living Age, Volume 242Living Age Company, 1904 |
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... less than 10,000 tons , the Powerful dis- places 14,200 tons , and the other eight ships 11,000 tons . No unbiassed ship designer would for one moment at- tempt to claim that the British ships have been as good an investment as the six ...
... less than 10,000 tons , the Powerful dis- places 14,200 tons , and the other eight ships 11,000 tons . No unbiassed ship designer would for one moment at- tempt to claim that the British ships have been as good an investment as the six ...
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... less than a pound a month during the days of his appren- ticeship . Long before he died , the peasant's son had become , what Tizi- ano Vecellio was once before him , " The painter of kings and a king among painters . " But even this de ...
... less than a pound a month during the days of his appren- ticeship . Long before he died , the peasant's son had become , what Tizi- ano Vecellio was once before him , " The painter of kings and a king among painters . " But even this de ...
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... less than ru- mor credits certain English , French and American artists with getting for their work . He told me that he dis- liked asking what he considered to be an excessive price , even when certain of obtaining it . Where an ...
... less than ru- mor credits certain English , French and American artists with getting for their work . He told me that he dis- liked asking what he considered to be an excessive price , even when certain of obtaining it . Where an ...
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... less particular mule- teers and menials stared at them with open - mouthed grinning wonder . Our little captain sat unconcernedly in a sheltered corner deftly rolling up with his delicate , finely shaped fingers , end- less piles of ...
... less particular mule- teers and menials stared at them with open - mouthed grinning wonder . Our little captain sat unconcernedly in a sheltered corner deftly rolling up with his delicate , finely shaped fingers , end- less piles of ...
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... less doves rises in a bewildering vol- ume of sound , and with only a moder- ate amount of good luck one may come upon a peacock parading his splendors to his mates in some sunlit glade ; such a sight is not soon forgotten . As for the ...
... less doves rises in a bewildering vol- ume of sound , and with only a moder- ate amount of good luck one may come upon a peacock parading his splendors to his mates in some sunlit glade ; such a sight is not soon forgotten . As for the ...
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