Littell's Living Age, Volume 184Littell, Son and Company, 1890 |
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Page 133
... English writers ! Yet only through some pleasure given , I venture to assert , is any profit afforded by the study of an English writer . " Write a life , with dates , of Sir John Suckling . What do you mean by the ' metaphysical ...
... English writers ! Yet only through some pleasure given , I venture to assert , is any profit afforded by the study of an English writer . " Write a life , with dates , of Sir John Suckling . What do you mean by the ' metaphysical ...
Page 223
... English people , as a whole , is very gracious . tained this magistrate's consent to set Combaut at liberty - a favor which none could impute to me . On the contrary , I perceived both the French and English seemed to think that if the ...
... English people , as a whole , is very gracious . tained this magistrate's consent to set Combaut at liberty - a favor which none could impute to me . On the contrary , I perceived both the French and English seemed to think that if the ...
Page 456
... English , where such honorary titles as Miss , Mistress , and Madam are all words of foreign deriva- tion , mere corruptions of the French mai- tresse and madame . Mister is but a form The English has also the defect of not of the Latin ...
... English , where such honorary titles as Miss , Mistress , and Madam are all words of foreign deriva- tion , mere corruptions of the French mai- tresse and madame . Mister is but a form The English has also the defect of not of the Latin ...
Contents
THE OLD MISSIONARY By Sir William | 49 |
A Highland School Forty Years Ago | 59 |
THE MORAVIANS AND THE LEPERS | 63 |
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