The Reliques of Father ProutGeorge Bell & Sons, 1875 - 578 pages |
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Page 18
... marked predilection for herbs , and such frugal fare , was distinctive of the old Romans , as the very names of the principal families sufficiently indicate . The Fabii , for in- stance , were so called from faba , a bean , on which ...
... marked predilection for herbs , and such frugal fare , was distinctive of the old Romans , as the very names of the principal families sufficiently indicate . The Fabii , for in- stance , were so called from faba , a bean , on which ...
Page 44
... marked it for her own . Patriotism , poetry , philanthropy , all the arts , and all the finer feelings , have their pilgrimages , their hallowed spots of intense in- terest , their haunts of fancy and of inspiration . It is the first ...
... marked it for her own . Patriotism , poetry , philanthropy , all the arts , and all the finer feelings , have their pilgrimages , their hallowed spots of intense in- terest , their haunts of fancy and of inspiration . It is the first ...
Page 73
... marked " all barren ; " Terry very properly considering that , if there was any surplus in the poor - box , it could be better placed , without going out of the precincts of that wild and impoverished tract , in the palm of squalid ...
... marked " all barren ; " Terry very properly considering that , if there was any surplus in the poor - box , it could be better placed , without going out of the precincts of that wild and impoverished tract , in the palm of squalid ...
Page 113
... marked frontier , so much undetermined boundary . degrees of longitude and latitude have never been laid down , nor , that I learn , ever calculated at all , for want of a really sensible solid man to act the part of a first meridian ...
... marked frontier , so much undetermined boundary . degrees of longitude and latitude have never been laid down , nor , that I learn , ever calculated at all , for want of a really sensible solid man to act the part of a first meridian ...
Page 120
... marked England's conduct towards her sister island . In the " Miser- able State , & c . , we have evidence that the wretched peasantry at that time was at just the same stage ' of civilization and 1 comfort as they are at the present ...
... marked England's conduct towards her sister island . In the " Miser- able State , & c . , we have evidence that the wretched peasantry at that time was at just the same stage ' of civilization and 1 comfort as they are at the present ...
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