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It is another species, destined by the agencies at work in the realm of unconsciousness to be brought into being of its own kind, and not of another," W.D. Howells, North American Review, 173:429. "A true short-story is something other and something more than a mere story which is short. A true short-story differs from the novel chiefly in its essential unity of impression.
Again, CROKER has a long note upon a passage in Boswell's Life of Johnson, II. p. 173, to invalidate a narative of Oglethorpe's respecting a writing of Colonel Sir Thomas Prendergast, who was killed at the battle of Malplaquet, on the 31st of August, 1709, which thus concludes: "At the battle of Malplaquet, Oglethorpe was only eleven years old.
Writing on Aug. 1, 1780, after mentioning the failure of his application to Lord Westcote, he continues: 'There is an ingenious scheme to save a day's work, or part of a day, utterly defeated. Then what avails it to be wise? The plain and the artful man must both do their own work. But I think I have got a life of Dr. Young. Piozzi Letters, ii. 173. Gent. Mag. vol. lv. p. 10.
From Bordeaux, 225 cs. cuttlefish bone; Copenhagen, 173 pkgs. fish; Liverpool, 969 bbls. herrings, 10 walrus hides, 2,000 bags salt; La Guayra, 6 cs. fish sounds; Belize, 9 bbls. sponges; Rotterdam, 7 pkgs. seaweed, 9,000 kegs herrings; Barcelona, 235 cs. sardines; Bocas Del Toro, 5 cs. turtle shells; Genoa, 3 boxes corals; Tampico, 2 pkgs. sponges; Halifax, 1 cs. seal skins, 35 bbls. cod liver oil, 215 cs. lobsters, 490 bbls. codfish; Akureyri, 4,150 bbls. salted herrings," and much more.
+173+. From this brief statement of initiation ceremonies it appears that they rest substantially on social ideas and necessities.
The customs of "gavelkinde" and "tanistry" were attended with the same absurdity in the distribution of property. The chieftains and the tanists, though drawn from the principal families, were not hereditary, but were established by election, or, more properly speaking, by force and violence. * Sir John Davis, p. 166. Sir John Davis, p. 167 * Sir John Davis, p. 173
The fog at that moment was denser than usual and she hesitated a moment before she left the shelter which the cab afforded. She gave the driver a few instructions and walked on with a firm step, turning abruptly and mounting the steps of Number 173. Very quickly she inserted her key in the lock, pushed the door open and closed it behind her. She switched on the hall light.
The Theory of the Earth, vol. i. p. 173, note. Ibid. p. 281. Ibid. p. 371. The Theory of the Earth, vol. i. p. 200. The Theory of the Earth, vol. i. pp. 16, 17. The Theory of the Earth, vol. i. p. 223. Principles of Geology, vol. ii. p. 211. Principles of Geology, vol. ii. p. 613.
The Archbishop of Mexico $130,000 The Bishop of Pueblo 110,000 The Bishop of Valladolid 110,000 The Bishop of Guadalajara 90,000 The Bishop of Durango 35,000 The Bishop of Monterey 30,000 The Bishop of Yucatan 20,000 The Bishop of Oajaca 18,000 The Bishop of Sonora 6,000 Total individual income of twelve bishops $539,000 Essai Politique, vol. i. p. 173.
The author's raillery is the raillery of a friend, and does not turn the Sacred Order into ridicule: but it is a just censure on such persons as take advantages from the necessities of a Man of Merit, to impose upon him hardships that are by no means suitable to the dignity of his profession. Another description of the miseries of the Domestic Chaplain, in 1713, A.D. No. 173.
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