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But in works which owe much of their interest to the character and situation of the writers, the case is infinitely stronger. What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti, harmonies, abridgments, expurgated editions? Who ever reads a stage-copy of a play when he can procure the original? Who ever cut open Mrs. Siddons's Milton? Who ever got through ten pages of Mr.
The indefatigable, patient, invincible, inquisitive, sometimes tedious, but almost always amusing German traveler, Herr Kohl, has recently been pursuing his earnest investigations in Belgium. His book on the Netherlands has just been issued, and we shall translate, with abridgments, one of its most instructive and agreeable chapters; that relating to Lace-making.
The prominent interest of her life, for the student of human nature, lies in the story of her conversion, as told by herself. The greater part of the narrative every page of which is more or less characteristic of the Frenchwoman of the eighteenth century may be given, with certain suppressions and abridgments, in her own words. The reader will observe, at the outset, one curious fact.
And could you do it?" said Giselle, whose knowledge of history was limited to what may be found in school abridgments. It was therefore a great satisfaction to her when Fred declared that he never should have known how to set about it.
The books of Aristotle on Metaphysics or Natural Philosophy, or the abridgments of these works, are not to be read. In other words, the Old and New Logic are prescribed studies; the Ethics, and Topics, Bk. IV, are optional; the Metaphysics and the Natural Philosophy are forbidden. The final triumph of Aristotle in the University is indicated by the statute of the Masters of Arts in 1254.
From Grote's History of Greece. New York. Stanford & Delisser. 18mo. pp. 2l9. 50 cts. Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business. Reprinted from the London Edition. Boston and Cambridge. J. Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 172. 60 cts. Abridgments of the Debates of Congress. By Thomas H. Benton. Vol. 10. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. pp. 756. $2.50. Morality and the State. By Simeon Nash.
At a later period other epic poems were written, either as abridgments of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, or founded on episodes contained in them. These, however, belong to a lower order of composition, and cannot be compared with the great works of Valmiki and Vyasa.
He must in those last months have exhausted the school library, which consisted principally of abridgments of all the voyages and travels of any note; Mavor's collection, also his Universal History; Robertson's histories of Scotland, America, and Charles the Fifth; all Miss Edgeworth's productions, together with many other works equally well calculated for youth.
The Place Vendôme, in which the column stands, has a very noble appearance, being a fine specimen of the style of building of Louis the Fourteenth, in whose reign it was erected; and he too fed his ambition with wholesale flow of blood, and with treasure wreaked from the hard earned labour of his subjects, and the abridgments of their comforts, but both were ultimately destined to chew the bitter cud of mortification, and however bright the sun by which they rose to imaginary glory, they were doomed to set in a starless night.
He must in those last months have exhausted the school library, which consisted principally of abridgments of all the voyages and travels of any note; Mayor's Collection; also his Universal History; Robertson's Histories of Scotland, America, and Charles the Fifth; all Miss Edgeworth's productions; together with many other works, equally well calculated for youth, not necessary to be enumerated.
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