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... Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me, and his personal aims were to put money in his own coffers. (Reference: Wikipedia.org)...

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...ook. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel. Another interpretation of the title, of cours...

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...ver of an Old Book Its Contents torn Out And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding. Ben Franklin wrote—not with a pen—but with alphabetic metal ch...

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...ver of an Old Book Its Contents torn Out And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding. Ben Franklin wrote—not with a pen—but with alphabetic metal ch...

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.... In the cool stillness of the night, he slipped from her side. The faint gilding of firelight made the bruises on her face seem heartbreakingly d...

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...dazzled the doctor between the bed-curtains gleamed on the weather- beaten gilding which had once adorned this mysterious sym- bol, and showed it to b... ...ve seen, the inauspicious symbol lost the greater part of what superficial gilding it originally had. Matters had not mended with him in more advanced...

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...rgain. For my part, I would give my grand ambassadorial saloons, hangings, gildings, feasts, valets, ambassadors and all, for a bicoque in sight of th...

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...o beautify the chair. This was done by polishing and varnishing it, and by gilding the carved work of the elbows, and likewise the oaken flowers of th... ...glittering show of new in vention.” “Grandfather, I cannot see any of the gilding,” remarked Charley, who had been examining the chair very minutely.... ...ents, they beheld a richly clad gentleman, seated in a stately chair, with gilding upon the carved work of its back, and a gilded lion’s head at the s... ...ars since the chair had been beautified by Gov ernor Belcher. Most of the gilding was worn off by the fre quent scourings which it had undergone ben...

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...rints representing the battles of Alexander, by Lebrun, in frames with the gilding rubbed off were symmetrically arranged on the walls. In the middle ...

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...he lumbered on through an intermi- nable procession of days; and the fresh gilding flashed back at the setting sun, seemed to cry out over the darkeni...

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...terious impulses, and yearnings of the heart, and the supremacy of intellect gilding all earthly things with the glow ing magic of immortal verse, it...

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...ttle church, crowded with altars and fan- tastic ornaments, and lights and gilding, where we were told to look behind a huge iron grille, and beheld a... ...n print; but not so in reality. Most of the marble is wood, almost all the gilding is faded, the guards are shabby, the foolish perspectives painted o... ... comfortable matted church, or sitting in easy devotion. Pictures, images, gilding, tinsel, wax candles, twinkle all over the place; and ten thousand ...

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..., he has published, with all possible additions of vellum, typography, and gilding, a collection of our ancient church music, with some correct disser... ...ughter; and yet he is never quite at ease in money matters. The vellum and gilding of ‘Harding’s Church Music’ cost more than any one knows, except th... ...thousand nightly edicts for the governance of a subject nation? Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre. It is a throne...

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...essor to Master Chevrel.” Sun and rain had 5 Balzac worn away most of the gilding parsimoniously applied to the letters of this superscription, in wh...

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... in no way remarkable. Gazonal, bewildered by the toilets, the lights, the gilding, the chatter of the various groups whom he thought to be discussing...

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... his hear- ers a heaven on the lines of the Palmer House (but with all the gilding real gold, and all the plate-glass diamond), and set in the centre ...

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...both feet at once. I will not speak of the little happiness which shed its gilding on the beginning of my misfortunes. Dismayed at my failure, I decid...

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...ed from a cap, giving her an arch look. She was fresh and smiling. Silver, gilding, and mother-of-pearl shone on the table, and all about the room wer...

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... womens fashion, An eye more bright then theirs, lesse false in rowling: Gilding the obiect where-vpon it gazeth, A man in hew all Hews in his cont...

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...rned his unseeing stare on an ecstatic Saint Catherine framed in tarnished gilding. “It’s just this way,” he began again, with an effort. “When letter...