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He was thus able to employ well-selected agents in different parts of Europe to buy books on his account, which it was his pleasure to receive, his rapture to unpack, his pride to despatch in what he calls 'dry-fats' that is, weather-tight chests to Dr. James, the first Bodley librarian. Nor had he any mean taint of nature that might have grudged other men a hand in the great work.
The whole town has an air of almost depressing opulence, an appearance which culminates in the great place which surrounds the Grand-Théatre an establishment of the highest style, encircled with columns, arcades, lamps, gilded cafés. One feels it to be a monument to the virtue of the well-selected bottle.
As long as she did not shut out his library sunlight, nor bring her pet clergyman into his sanctum, he found it easy to balance her sterling companionable qualities against certain others of a trying nature, and go serenely on his philosophical way. Undoubtedly Alymer was a well-selected mixture of both parents.
In furnishing a kitchen, it is well to begin with a few essential utensils of the best quality that can be obtained, and then, as needed, to add other well-selected utensils to the equipment. ALUMINUM. Because of the properties of aluminum, this metal is used extensively for cooking utensils.
But English experience, and a longer experience in America, has shown that the personality of the candidate nominated is at least as important as his party allegiance, and that a parliament of well-selected members who represent somewhat roughly the opinion of the nation is better than a parliament of ill-selected members who, as far as their party labels are concerned, are, to quote Lord Courtney, 'a distillation, a quintessence, a microcosm, a reflection of the community.
Then, supposing our historian rich in well-selected evidence I say well-selected, because, as students tell us, for many an historian one authority is of the same weight as another, provided they are both of the same age; still, how difficult is narration even to the man who is rich in well-selected evidence.
Sam Hooper, the merchant Representative from Boston, who handed the General a letter signed by himself and forty-nine other "solid men of Boston," presenting a library of well-selected books, which had cost five thousand dollars. George Bancroft's eulogy on Abraham Lincoln attracted crowds to the hall of the House of Representatives.
I remember that she taught history, following, I suppose, the American notion that any one can teach history who has a text-book, just as he or she can teach literature with the same help. But it happened that Margaret was a better teacher than many, because she had not learned history in school, but in her father's well-selected library. There was a little stir at Margaret's entrance; Mr.
There is probably nothing more rest-giving than the marine view, and next come the pretty pastoral and cool woodland scenes, while madonnas and other pictures of religious significance express their own worth just a few choice, well-selected photographs, etchings, and engravings of agreeable subjects, with a painting or two; that's all we want.
Moving down a precipitous ravine, leaping ditch and stream, clambering up a difficult ascent, and exposed to an incessant and deadly fire from the intrenchments, those brave and determined men pressed forward, driving the enemy from his well-selected and fortified position. How fiercely the Northern troops had battled is told in the outspoken reports of the Confederate generals.
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