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He also bought the freedom of superior poets and artists , and gave a noble gratuity to the restorer of the Coan of Venus , and to another artist who repaired the Colossus . Some one offering to convey some immense columns into the Capitol at a small expense by a mechanical contrivance, he rewarded him very handsomely for his invention, but would not accept his service, saying, "Suffer me to find maintenance for the poor people."
We landed in a whaleboat, and were hoisted up a rude pier which was crowded, for what the arrival of the Australian mail-steamer is to Honolulu, the coming of the Kilauea is to Hilo. I had not time to feel myself a stranger, there were so many introductions, and so much friendliness. Mr. Coan and Mr.
There are no conveyances, and outside the village these narrow roads dwindle into bridle-paths, with just room for one horse to pass another. The houses in which Mr. Coan, Mr. Lyman, Dr. Of the three churches, the most prominent is the Roman Catholic Church, a white frame building with two great towers; Mr.
II. And it is not only the case that eminent men have not been deterred by such circumstances from the highest class of studies, but even those artists have not renounced their art who have been unable to equal the beauty of the Talysus which we have seen at Rhodes, or of the Coan Venus.
The interposition of such powerful friends in behalf of this persecuted Nestorian Christian, exerted a favorable influence upon the local authorities. Kamil Pasha sent reiterated friendly assurances from Bashkallah to Messrs. Coan and Rhea.
"Though I've never been to see." "Ah never had much schoolin'," went on Chris. "I lef school when I was twelve, 'cause it warn't much good, an' dad drank so the folks needed me to work on the farm." "What do you grow in your part of the country?" "Mostly coan. A little wheat an' tobacca. Then we raised a lot o' stock.... But Ah was juss going to tell ye Ah nearly did kill a guy once."
The Rhodian admiral Pausistratus, lulled into security by the representations of his countryman that he wished to desert from Antiochus, had allowed himself to be surprised in the harbour of Samos; he himself fell, and all his vessels were destroyed except five Rhodian and two Coan ships; Samos, Phocaea, and Cyme on hearing the news went over to Seleucus, who held the chief command by land in those provinces for his father.
Good though they were, they but serve to cultivate the taste for the wines that cement friendships such as ours. Henceforth pour for us only the Coan, Leucadian, and Thasian, and see that you select those amphorae whose contents are toothless with age." A rough laugh rolled up from the other table, and the voice of Hannibal-the-Fighter broke out with: "It is well said, host.
He kindly brought his wife's riding-costume for my trip to Kilauea. The Rev. Titus Coan, one of the first and most successful missionaries to Hawaii, also called.
Cloacal passage existing in the human embryo. Clubs, used as weapons before dispersion of mankind. Clucking of fowls. Clythra 4-punctata, stridulation of. Coan, Mr., Sandwich-islanders. Cobbe, Miss, on morality in hypothetical bee-community. Cobra, ingenuity of a. Coccus. Coccyx, in the human embryo; convoluted body at the extremity of the; imbedded in the body.
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