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"Y Cymmrodor," vol. vi. p. 194; Hunt, p. 120. Gerv. Tilb. Dcc. iii. c. 85. Sébillot, "Contes," vol. ii. p. 42; "Litt. Orale," p. 23; "Trad. et Super." p. 109. But in these cases the operation was performed painlessly enough, for the victims were unaware of their loss until they came to look in the glass. In one of Prof.
'And wouldn't that be a rather sensational thesis, he went on, 'from a staid candidate for an M.A., or a Ph.D., or a Litt.D., or whatever it is you're after? It would, of a verity; and why shouldn't it be? 'Don't go over there, he ended with a smile, as he dropped his hand on my shoulder; 'your friends would rather have you here. 'Never fear! I returned; 'I can't possibly manage it.
D.Litt., Durham, 1920. Some day, when I've quite made up my mind what to fight for, or whom to fight, I shall do well enough, if I live, but I haven't made up my mind what to fight for whether, for instance, people ought to live in Swiss cottages and sit on three-legged or one-legged stools; whether people ought to dress well or ill; whether ladies ought to tie their hair in beautiful knots; whether Commerce or Business of any kind be an invention of the Devil or not; whether Art is a Crime or only an Absurdity; whether Clergymen ought to be multiplied, or exterminated by arsenic, like rat; whether in general we are getting on, and if so where we are going to; whether it's worth while to ascertain any of these things; whether one's tongue was ever made to talk with or only to taste with.-JOHN RUSKIN.
Love in Several Masks was produced, as we have seen, in February, 1728; and it is a little surprising to find the young dramatist suddenly appearing, four weeks later, as a University student. He was entered at the University of Leyden, as "Litt. Stud," on the 16th of March 1728.
Or rather how it has only one Hero, and one Name which it celebrates, the name of that Lord to whom Peter ascribed his deliverance, and of whom he himself declared that 'there is none other Name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved. ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt.
Extract from Jacopo of Acqui's Imago Mondi, quoted ibid., Introd., p. 54. M. Ch.-V. Langlois in Hist. Litt. de la France, XXXV , p. 259. For tributes to Marco Polo's accuracy see Aurel Stein, Ancient Khotan and Ruins of Desert Cathay ; Ellsworth Huntington, The Pulse of Asia ; and Sven Hedin, Overland to India . Yule, op. cit., I, Introd., pp. 106-7.
[Footnote 24: See “Bemerkungen oder Briefe über Wien, eines jungen Bayern auf einer Reise durch Deutschland,” Leipzig (probably 1804 or 1805). It is, according to the Jenaische Allg. Litt. Zeitung (1805, IV, p.
He died at the age of thirty-seven, in the twenty-first year of our era, after being for twelve years the leader and champion of Germany. By J. S. REID, Litt.D. The Roman Empire reached its greatest extent under Marcus Ulpius Traianus, the fourteenth emperor.
The elegant, the unpretentious, the quiet soir,e to which the woman of fashion shall welcome the litt,rateur and the artist, the aristocrat who is at the top of the social tree and the millionaire who reached his culmination yesterday, would seem to be that Ultima Thule for which all people have been sighing ever since society was first thought of.
I owe the last of these specimens, in the Latin from which I translate it, to the kindness of my friend the Rev. W. Hunt, D.Litt., to whom I had recourse as not myself having access to a large library at the moment, and who has assisted me in other parts of this book. Yet others, as to authenticity, have, I believe, been rejected by all competent scholarship.
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