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Everything that zeal in the cause of science, combined with the most extensive knowledge, had been able to collect in a land abounding in monuments of every kind, and in the rarest curiosities, is described and illustrated in this work by a committee of savans appointed for the purpose. It contains more than 900 engravings, and 3000 illustrative sketches.
Finally, with quadrupeds the contest between the individuals of the same sex, whether peaceful or bloody, has, with the rarest exceptions, been confined to the males; so that the latter have been modified through sexual selection, far more commonly than the females, either for fighting with each other or for alluring the opposite sex.
We owe thee much, Starlight; many a slashing leader, many a spicy paragraph, many a stately reflection on contemporary morals hast thou furnished us with. Shall we haste to the slaughter of the rarest bird golden ovaried? We trow not. Get thee to the wilderness, and repent thee of thy sins. Why should we judge thee? Thou hast, if such dubious donation may avail, an editor's blessing.
But he asked Père George the direction, notwithstanding; and though his conscience seemed to be blocking up the way a tangible, visible, provoking conscience he put his feet upon it and shut his lips, and found the place. Ralph Flare has often remarked since for he is quite an artist now that of all scenes in art or nature that boutique was to him the rarest.
It is related that an enemy was inveighing against him, when an alleged friend spoke up and said: "You should not talk so about the President, I assure you that he is not at all the man you describe him to be. On the contrary, he is a man of the rarest gifts and virtues.
MYSELF: Believe me, of all people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most. These people are also consumed with desires. ME: And what, pray, do you suppose they desire? MYSELF: They want what they have not got; they want the unattainable: they want chiefly the rarest and most precious of all things a little mystery in their lives. "That's it!" I said aloud; "that's it!
I had become patient, contemplative and resigned, and in study and in studious observation of Nature in her rarest beauty and most mighty and invincible development I had almost forgotten the deliciousness of a selfish and individual hope, the pleasures of happy and careless youth. But as soon as I entered college I became sufficiently absorbed in the actual.
But it is so far personal, so allied to grace of gesture, to charm of manner, to melody of voice, to perfection of speech, to a commanding presence, that it carries to the future but a fraction of its power. The cold type and the insentiate page constitute at best only the record of nature's rarest gift.
Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced. "To boarding-school, Aunt Mary?" Her aunt poured out her uncle's after-dinner coffee. "I've spilled some, my dear. Get another saucer for your uncle." Honora went mechanically to the china closet, her heart thumping. She did not stop to reflect that it was the rarest of occurrences for Aunt Mary to spill the coffee.
Massive mahogany furniture, now, alas! in scattered remnants, meets the eye at every turn. Treasures and elegant trifles of many lands attest the artistic taste of the owners. Gorgeous china, plate and glass are there in everyday use. Fruits of the loom in rarest silk and linen, embellish the chambers and luxury sits enthroned.
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