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Bastin handed him half-a-crown, saying: "Get me a copy of the last edition of all the chief evening papers, Charley, and be smart about it, and perhaps you will keep the change for your smartness." In six minutes the lad was back with a sheaf of papers. Bastin just glanced at them separately, noting the several times of their issue, then with a "Good boy, Charley!
The newsboys, as he went, were crying themselves hoarse along the footways: "Special edition. Shocking murder of an M. P." That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.
She thought he took liberties; and though he meant no harm, he certainly did. Lockhart, i. 270. I quote, as is usual, the second or ten-volume edition. It is pretty universally known, and must have been perceived even from the foregoing summary, that Scott was by no means a very precocious writer.
And so faint and limited was the perception of the poetic beauties of his dramas in the time of Pope, that, in his Edition of the Plays, with a view of rendering to the general reader a necessary service, he printed between inverted commas those passages which he thought most worthy of notice.
The returns have already exceeded my expectation and desire. It is not, therefore, my wish or intention to press or urge the sale of the book. I have no doubt the second edition will go off fast enough indeed a good part of it is already bespoken. But I have not at all made up my mind to proceed to a third edition if the second is exhausted. I am inclined to think I shall hold my hand.
He was conscious of a woeful lack of something in his stomach, and the coffee braced him up in a way he very much needed. It was quite a distance from the life-saving station to the nearest telegraph office, but Larry knew he must make it if he wanted an account of the wreck to get to his paper in time for the edition that day. So he set off for a tiresome trudge over the wet sand.
Then came a man and wrote a book called the Social Contract. The man was called Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and his book was a theory, and nothing but a theory. The nobles could laugh at his theory; but their skins went to bind the second edition of his book ." Look to your skin, world, lest it be dressed to morocco and cunningly tooled with gold. There is much binding yet to be done.
It was a beech, standing somewhat isolated, and still leafless in quite early Spring. The day was quite still and there was no movement in the branches, but in that moment the tree was no longer a separate or separable organism, but a vast being ramifying far into space, sharing and uniting the life of Earth and Sky, and full of a most amazing activity. Specimen Days, 1882-3 Edition, p. iii.
After a while some newsboy told him that the war was over, and he was glad, because it meant that Peat Brothers, publishers, would get out their new edition of "Spinoza's Improvement of the Understanding."
Browning continues: 'Spite of my ailments and bewailments I have just all but finished another poem of quite another kind, which shall amuse you in the spring, I hope! I don't go sound asleep at all events. 'Balaustion' the second edition is in the press I think I told you. 2,500 in five months, is a good sale for the likes of me. 'Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau' was written in Scotland, where Mr.
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