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They may not know it either. And then he suddenly remembered that, from what Dr. Donaldson had told him, Margaret, at any rate, must be aware of the exact state of the case. 'Very probably they are quite aware of what you said yesterday, John of the great advantage it would be to them to Mr. Hale, I mean, to be introduced to such people as the Stephenses and the Collingbrooks.
From the holly-bush swung the corpse of the wren, and from the throats of the Wran-Boys came the song that recounts the wicked wren's pursuit and slaughter: "The Wran, the Wran, the King of all birds, On Stephenses' Day was cot in the furze, And though he is little, his family is great, Rise up, good gentlemen, and give us a thrate Huzzay!"
Then came the Giunti, the learned family of the Stephenses, of whom Robert is accredited as the author of the present divisions of our New Testament into chapters, and Henry, author of the great Greek Thesaurus, the most valuable Greek lexicon ever published. To the opprobrium of the age, he died in an almshouse.
He who has a passion for old editions of the classics in vellum bindings Stephenses or Aldines will not be put off with a copy of Robinson Crusoe or the Ready Reckoner, bound to match and range with the contents of his shelves.
I have surely reason to be utterly and entirely satisfied with my lot in life; but there are not many boys such as I was who find little blue-eyed maidens to bring precious little Bible cards to them, and so write lessons on their hearts that will tell for all time yes, and for all eternity." "There are not many Dr. Birges and Mr. Stephenses," said Dora, emphatically.
We have in these volumes sketches, not so elaborate, of several others, the younger Scaliger, Muretus, Huet, and the great French printers, the Stephenses; and in these sketches we are also introduced to a number of their contemporaries, with characteristic observations on them, implying an extensive and first-hand knowledge of what they were, and an acquaintance with what was going on in the scholar world of the day.
Hale, let the subject be what it might. 'Well, mother, asked Mr. Thornton that night, 'who have accepted your invitations for the twenty-first? 'Fanny, where are the notes? The Slicksons accept, Collingbrooks accept, Stephenses accept, Browns decline. Hales father and daughter come, mother too great an invalid Macphersons come, and Mr. Horsfall, and Mr. Young.
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