Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902, Parte6

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Carnegie library, 1905
 

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Página 1550 - I trust is their destiny, to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier, to teach the young and the gracious of every age, to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Página 1663 - The Essays, therefore, are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There have been men with deeper insight; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts: he is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for. The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences.
Página 1590 - A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing...
Página 1609 - A Guide to English Literature— Falkland — A French Critic on Milton — A French Critic on Goethe— George Sand. LITERATURE AND DOGMA : an Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible. Popular Edition, with a new Preface. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. GOD AND THE BIBLE : a Sequel to 'Literature and Dogma.
Página 1610 - Milton. — Pope. — Johnson. — Burke. — The muse of history. — Charles Lamb. — Emerson. — The office of literature. — Worn-out types. — Cambridge and the poets. — Book-buying. "Apart from their intellectual grip, which we think really notable, the great charm of these essays lies in the fine urbanity of their satirical humour.
Página 1499 - The To-morrow of Death ; The Jesus of History ; The Christ of Dogma ; A Word about Miracles ; Draper on Science and Religion ; Nathan the Wise ; Historical Difficulties; The Famine of 1770 in Bengal; Spain and the Netherlands; Longfellow's Dante ; Paine's St. Peter; A Philosophy of Art ; Athenian and American Life.
Página 1569 - Martial strains which fire the blood, fairy music ringing in the ears, half-told tales which set the young heart dreaming, brave deeds, unhappy fates, sombre ballads, keen joyous lyrics, and small jeweled verses where every word shines like a polished gem,— all these good things the children know and love.
Página 1531 - Mr. Jusserand's qualifications for the task which he has undertaken are of a high order. There are few foreigners, and certainly very few Frenchmen, who have so intimate a knowledge of English life ; he has already gained great distinction as an original investigator in more than one period of English literary. history ; and although his point of view in the present work is unmistakably that of a Frenchman, he shows a degree of sympathetic insight which is seldom met with in foreign critics of our...
Página 1611 - CONTENTS: — The Unity of the Sciences. The Progressiveness of the Sciences. Erasmus. Galileo. The Scientific Character of Bacon. David Hume. Bishop Butler and his Theology. The Study of History. The Science of History. The Study of Art. The Progressiveness of Art. The Art of Public Speaking. The Personal Element in Teaching. General and Professional Education. "The addresses discuss various high themes ant\ give evidence at every turn of courage of conviction and luminous understanding of the trend...
Página 1479 - FRENEAU (Philip) Poems on Various Subjects, but chiefly illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence, reprinted from the rare edition printed at Philadelphia in 1786, with a Preface. Thick fcap.

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