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In the year 1653, the seventy-fifth of his life, Harvey presented the College of Physicians with the title-deed of a building erected in their garden, and elegantly fitted up, at his expense, with a library and museum, and commodious apartments for their social meetings. Upon this occasion he resigned the professorship of anatomy, which he had held for nearly forty years, and was succeeded by Dr.
At seven o'clock that evening he called a cab and drove away to the Opera, curled like a Saint John of a Procession Day, elegantly waistcoated and gloved, but feeling a little awkward in this kind of sheath in which he found himself for the first time. In obedience to Mme. de Bargeton's instructions, he asked for the box reserved for the First Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
Judge, then, of my amazement and joy, when I found as I did find the very laboring population of New Bedford living in better houses, more elegantly furnished surrounded by more comfort and refinement than a majority of the slaveholders on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. There was my friend, Mr. Yet Mr. Johnson was a working man, and his hands were hardened by honest toil.
A fair young man, elegantly dressed, with menacing gesture continually attacked the grenadiers, and cut his fingers with their bayonets in order to move them aside and make a clear passage. "Sire Sire!" he shouted, "I summon you in the name of one hundred thousand souls who surround me, to sanction the decree against the priests: that is death!"
I do not authorise anyone, either by gesture or by speech, to comment on what is taking place within these walls." Having obtained comparative quiet, the colonel looked squarely at the person who had approached the witness-stand and was facing the military tribunal. This would-be witness was a young woman, elegantly clad.
The growing chill in the water brought the Chevalier out of his reverie. He leaped from the tub and shone rosily in the firelight, as elegantly proportioned a youth as ever was that fabulous Leander of the Hellespont. "Bring me those towels I purchased from the wandering Persian. I regret that I did not have them blessed by his Holiness.
The house was of timber, with a deep timbered verandah; and in the verandah, not twenty paces away, beside a table laid for coffee, stood Tatty with three ladies about her three ladies all elegantly dressed and staring.
We lived in sunny Madrid, fragrant with acacias and carnations, with its subtle dangerous atmosphere, its elegantly indolent culture, its desolate surroundings; in restless Marseilles, full of crime and rabble, where we never felt safe; in orderly, methodical, soberly bourgeois Berlin, where they strive so sagaciously and diligently for culture; in blithe and beautiful Paris, where they still live on happily in the illusion that they are the leaders of civilization; in the not less self-satisfied London, immutably grim in its sombreness, hardened in its dangerous luxury and misery, full of intellectual life, but without much sign of improvement, like a strong, prosperous, hardened villain; in wanton St.
Meanwhile, we exhort him to seek the book of Mr. Herbert, as a work of much interest and authority, so far as it goes." MR. PUTNAM is preparing some elegantly embellished works for the holiday season.
It was not exactly a hairdresser's; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind might have called it a barber's; for they not only cut and curled ladies elegantly, and children carefully, but shaved gentlemen easily.
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