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... of the circle, as if he wished to put some confidential question to her, but, in reality, for the sake of getting nearer to the cardinal. “Madame my ... ... dark even in the finest days. Monsieur stopped Louis XIV . “Y ou are passing now, sire,” said he, “the very spot where the Duc de Guise received the ... ...g of En- gland, “My brother,” said he, “I am ashamed to say so, but the cardinal scarcely ever speaks of political affairs before me. Still more, form...

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...ssential part of himself, that such and such were his children. But it was historical fact, not vital to him. He had to make an effort to know their r... ...sked: ‘But do you think he will die?’ It was put almost like a question in geography or science, insistent, as if she would force an admission from th...

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...this es tablishment were this discharged. English grammar, com position, geography, and the use of the dumb bells, by Miss Melissa Wackles; writing,... ..., the woman who poisoned fourteen families with pickled walnuts, and other historical characters and interesting but mis guided individuals. And so w...

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... without studying. What I most attended to at these times, was history and geography, and as these did not re- quire intense application, made as much... ...at time my views had 390 The Confessions become much more extended by the historical study of mo- rality. I had perceived everything to be radically ...

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... Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum .................................................................. 202 Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History ................................................. 214...

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.................................... 202 Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History ................................................. 214... ...iple is effected. According to Hegel, it is worked out through a series of historical institutions which embody the differ- ent factors in the Absolut... ...y were evident to him; he saw the impossibility of making a clean sweep of historical institutions, of treating them as despotisms begot in artifice a... ...ent upon the idea of something operating from without. Herbart is the best historical representative of this type of theory. He denies absolutely the ... ...vate educational enterprises. Two results should stand out from this brief historical survey. The first is that such terms as the indi- vidual and the... ...mplete within itself. History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum... ...ling, writing, drawing, re- citing); acquiring information (in history and geography), and training of thinking is a measure of the ineffective way in... ...th ready- 160 Democracy & Education made subject matter of arithmetic, or geography, or what- ever, irrespective of some direct personal experience o... ...rying and sift- ing the facts taught and the methods used. The function of historical and geographical subject mat- ter has been stated; it is to enri...

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... himself motivated Burton to produce a wide-ranging document, containing digressions and commentary. Whatever its strengths as a medical text or as a historical document, it is the Anatomy's vast breadth — addressing topics such as digestion, goblins, the geography of America, and others — and the particularly characteristic voice of its author that are most commonly cited...

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... himself motivated Burton to produce a wide-ranging document, containing digressions and commentary. Whatever its strengths as a medical text or as a historical document, it is the Anatomy's vast breadth — addressing topics such as digestion, goblins, the geography of America, and others — and the particularly characteristic voice of its author that are most commonly cited...

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... ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- BOOK II 55 -- CHAPTER I ?GENESIS, 55 -- CHAPTER II ?IDYLLIC, 61 -- CHAP...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES .... ... amica veritas; Teufelsdr¨ ockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the wor... ...k of this when he sees it, readers may wonder; we, safe in the stronghold of Historical Fidelity, are careless. The main point, doubtless, for us all,... ...ious sections and subdi visions, the Work naturally falls into two Parts; a Historical Descriptive, and a Philosophical Speculative: but falls, unhap... ...e on perhaps the most egregious blunder in Modern Literature! MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL 31 CHAPTER VII MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL H APPIER is our Profes... ...man of order, courage, downrightness (Geradheit); that understood Busching’s Geography, had been in the victory of Rossbach, and left for dead in the ... ...that of Hinterschlag, where he had his education, are equally foreign to our geography. Duck ponds enough there undoubtedly are in almost every villag...

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...Phonetic and morphological use of languages or linguistic typology ……………………………...………………………… 41 • Geolinguistic distribution of languages or Language geography..51 c. Evolution of spoken language ………………………..………………………… 58 i- Specific views on evolution of spoken language …………...………….. 59 • Emergentism ……………………..…………………………….. 59 • Glossogenetics …………………………………………………. 60 ...

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...e shore to an- other as before. They now seemed to rotate on one spot. The historical figures at the head of armies, who formerly reflected the moveme... ...combinations, laws, and treaties. The historians call this activity of the historical figures “the reaction.” In dealing with this period they sternly... ...gures “the reaction.” In dealing with this period they sternly condemn the historical personages who, in their opinion, caused what they describe as t... ...s other villages or spent his time reading. The books he read were chiefly historical, and on these he spent a certain sum every year. He was collecti... ...s.” It would be a mistake to think that this is ironic—a caricature of the historical accounts. On the contrary it is a very mild ex- pression of the ... ... history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which dir...

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...ystem will result in nothing but a pointless fumble. Mr. Mackinder teaches geography—in- imitably—just to show how to do it. Mr. David Devant— the bri... ...he matter taught is totally forgotten in adult life. These are history and geography. These two subjects constitute, with English grammar and arithmet... ... an arid misuse of memory; and the highest levels to which ordinary school geography has attained are to be found in the little books of the late Prof... ...struction of time charts; and much history also by draw- ing and colouring historical maps. With geometrical drawing one passes insensibly into mathem... ...pplication of map drawing to give accurate ideas and to awaken interest in geography and history, it is open to discussion whether any Fact subject ne... ...u- lative discussion of the constitution of matter. A certain mini- mum of Historical and Political reading and of general “Li- brary” would be insist... ... through the avenue of Section ii. which, by the by, would have to involve Historical Reading. So much for my second suggested Col- lege course. The t... ...us inter pares. That will make four courses altogether, the Classical, the Historical, the Biological, and the Physical, for one or more of which all ... ...never get beyond the College stage. They will pass from the Biological and Historical courses into employ- ment, or marry, or enter domestic life. But...

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...rength of states and nations increases or decreases. Strange as may be the historical account of how some king or emperor, having quarreled with anoth... ... saw vividly before him a long-forgotten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Swit- zerland. “Wait a bit,” said the old man, and sho... ...ns’ language. When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly *”I have act... ...ange contradiction now difficult to understand be- tween the facts and the historical accounts only arises because the historians dealing with the mat...

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...f this remarkable discovery, he adds a highly evolved faculty for physical geography and for the calculation of times and distances. He has prodigious... ...ake them, if necessary, with as little ceremony as the handkerchief. (This historical incident was used eighty years later, by M. Victorien Sardou, in...

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...is appears to me untenable. All that we are told about the necessity of an historical basis for institutions, of their being in harmony 11 J S Mill w... ...terval between the morality and religion of the Pentateuch, or even of the historical books (the unmistakable work of Hebrew Conservatives of the sace... ...e real, but no ostensible or constitutional control by public opinion, did historically precede by an unknown and probably great duration all free ins... ... and the particular forms in which the idea has been clothed by accidental historical developments, or by the no tions current at some particular per... ...em to them to consist of persons, but of artificial units, the creation of geography and statistics. Parliament must rep resent towns and counties, n... ...ion rather than of their own. Abstractedly from positive law, and from the historical traditions of any particular people, which of these notions of t... ...to produce a set of almost el ementary questions in algebra, history, and geography, as a proof of the exorbitant amount of high scientific attainmen...

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...o be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world; he must transfer the point o... ...sia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts. The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life. But the nomads... ...25 Emerson books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras? Nay, what does history yet record of the metaphysical anna... ...and passengers, on the circle of house- hold acquaintance, on politics and geography and his- tory. But things are ever grouping themselves according ... ...sh by little and little. Goethe’s Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historical portrait, and that is true tragedy. It does not seem to me so ge... ...uffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures. Earlier, Robert Burns has given us a song or two. In t... ...here the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you thin... ... in which this element may not work. The circumstances of man, we say, are historically some- what better in this country and at this hour than perhap... ...ording to whose ordinations all be- ings advance to their beatitude? Thus, historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perceptio...

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... back reloaded). and a Parc-aux-cerfs. Whereby at least we have again this historical curiosity: a human being in an original position; swimming passi... ...earning to make locks. (Campan, i. 125.) It appears further, he understood Geography; and could read English. Unhappy young King, his childlike trust ... ...d by lift anchor, on philanthropic Voyage of Discovery; for the King knows Geography. (Au- gust 1st, 1785.) But, alas, this also will not prosper: the... ...s and operates down even to the populace. At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has passed from fatal con... ...tives and positives! The Siege of the Bastille, weighed with which, in the Historical balance, most other sieges, including that of Troy Town, are gos... ...er licensed by leaden badge) may have come,—will perhaps remain for ever a Historical Problem. Another Saul among the people we dis- cern: ‘Pere Adam,...

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...y following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pic- tured to himself the cou... ...ss gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. “A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough to be hear... ...ry act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history ... ...that is, to doing the very thing that was bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying th... ...look of pensive tenderness. He felt that what he now said and did would be historical, and it seemed to him that it would now be best for him—whose gr... ...s of motion instead of examining continuous motion. In seeking the laws of historical movement just the same thing happens. The movement of humanity, ... ...aw vividly before him a long-forgot- ten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Switzerland. “W ait a bit,” said the old man, and show... ... history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, politi- cal economy, comparative philology, and geology , which ...

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...oked over a few of those examination papers, which have comprised history, geography, grammar, arith metic, book keeping, decimal coinage, mensuratio... ...t, who, finding himself on a certain Sunday outside the walls of a certain historical English castle, famous for its pictures, was refused admission t... ... happiness, as arithmetic (elemen tary and advanced), chemistry, physical geography, and sing ing, on payment of the astoundingly low fee of a singl...

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...eir deeds. We listened to many a legend of Charlemagne. But that which was historically interesting for us began with Rudolph 42 Autobiography of Hap... ...s, I hummed and sang it to myself readily enough. In the same way we had a geography in memory-verses, in which the most wretched doggerel best served... ...attended diligently, the reputation of being able to tell at once what any historical picture represented, whether taken from bibli- cal or profane hi... ...notion. T o obtain matter for filling up this singular form, I studied the geography of the countries in which my creations resided, and by inventing ... ...nd unquiet times; so that I could not forbear representing what he related historically, as if it were present, by pictures of characters and circumst... ...ry” into our hands; it was useful and instructive enough, for it gave us a historical information of all the kinds of poetry, as well as of rhythm and... ...y the feelings, and embellishes them with suitable sentiments, images, and historical and fabulous traditions. Their roughness and wildness belong to ...

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...t variety, however, there was, will be most naturally exhibited by tracing historically the suc- cessive stages of the general misery, exactly as it u... ...ion) it was held by those best ac- quainted with the difficult and obscure geography of these pathless steppes—that the loss of this one narrow strait... ...ttle versed in biblical language as not to know that (except in the merely historical parts of the Jewish records) every section of time has a secret ... ...en a superb animal; that it is spo- ken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the ... ... assurance of Sully and other Protes- tants, countersigned by writers both historical and contro- versial, that not only was he prepared, by many warn... ...n (natural enough, and countenanced by innumer- able books) as to the true historical origin of wars in many notorious instances. If these had arisen ... ...g, upon any question of philosophy or of science, espe- cially of physical geography,* chemistry, or natural history. He talked satisfactorily, in his... ...rest- lessness with which from morning to night he pursued these *Physical Geography, in opposition to Political. 377 Thomas de Quincey labors of Sis...

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... back reloaded). and a Parc-aux-cerfs. Whereby at least we have again this historical curiosity: a human being in an original position; swimming passi... ...rning to make locks. (Campan, i. 125.) It appears further, he under- stood Geography; and could read English. Unhappy young King, his childlike trust ... ...d by lift anchor, on philanthropic Voyage of Discovery; for the King knows Geography. (August 1st, 1785.) But, alas, this also will not prosper: the b... ...and steady; now or 69 Thomas Carlyle never!—the World shall see one other Historical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Sta... ...and operates down even to the popu- lace. At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has passed from fatal con... ...tives and positives! The Siege of the Bastille, weighed with which, in the Historical balance, most other sieges, including that of Troy Town, are gos... ...i- censed by leaden badge) may have come,—will perhaps re- main for ever a Historical Problem. Another Saul among the people we discern: ‘Pere Adam, F... ...e a geographi- cal and topographical view of it; being from of old fond of geography.—The Temple Circuit again receives him, closes on him; gazing Par...

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...ure only. Dante here follows Brunetto Latini (Li T resor, I. ii. 87) in an historical error. 7 Of the two terms of a contradictory proposition one is... ... some heaven, as a palm of the high victory which was 22 According to the geography of the time the Mediterra- nean stretched from east to west ninet...

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...these stars, visible only from the Southern hemisphere. Ac- cording to the geography of the time Asia and Africa lay north of the equator, so that eve... ...ere follows the incorrect popular tradition. 9 Who had become a monk. The historical reference is ob- scure. 10 An ironical reference to the ceremon...

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...ified if only the end were attained. For tifying himself somewhat with this historical fact, Mr. Golyadkin said to himself, What were the Jesuits? Th... ...plishments, such as playing the piano some times, speaking French, history, geography, scripture and arithmetic, that’s the truth of it! And that’s a...

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...flow- ers, take the place of older and inferior kinds. In Yorkshire, it is historically known that the ancient black cattle were displaced by the long... ...se two breeds, moreover, have become so much modi- fied, that if we had no historical or indirect evidence regarding their origin, it would not have b... ...of North America. In regard to mammiferous remains, a single glance at the historical table published in the Supplement to Lyell’s Manual, will bring ... ...osition of consecutive formations, generally implying great changes in the geography of the surrounding lands, whence the sediment has been derived, a... ...o their apparent means of immigration, some light can be thrown on ancient geography. The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperf...

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...I ever heard of any such place.” “Never read of sweet Auburn!” “Not in any geography or gazetteer. Do you recollect tell- ing me that you have been in... ...ted in its recently discovered power of reproducing color as well as form! Historical pictures replaced by photographs of tableaux vivants formed and ... ... “I did not think of asking you. I only show it to you as an interest- ing historical document, containing the autographs of a few artists and poets. ...

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...e well to inquire how far the “autobiographical” notices can be treated as historical, especially as many critics treat some, or all of them, as spuri... ...pointed out that ‘mutterrecht’ still left its traces in northern Greece in historical times. The following analysis (after Marckscheffel) (8) will sho... ...) Of Miletus, flourished about 520 B.C. His work, a mixture of history and geography, was used by Herodotus. (16) The Hesiodic story of the daughters ...

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... with that view when duly tempered with wise conformity, and could mention historical examples before unknown to her. “He thinks with me,” said Doroth... ... ideal combat for her, tomahawk in hand, so to speak, was necessary to the historical continuity of the marriage tie. On the contrary, having the amia... ...ritual centre and interpreter of the world. But let them conceive one more historical contrast: the gigantic broken revelations of that Imperial and P... ...n,” said Will, in an offhand way, “that the Germans have taken the lead in historical inquiries, and they laugh at results which are got by groping ab... ...here I am naturally led to reflect on the means of elevating a low subject. Historical parallels are remarkably efficient in this way. The chief objecti... ...the best means— something to which she must go doggedly. Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by M... .... Garth was alarmed lest they should never be well grounded in grammar and geography. Nevertheless, they were found quite forward enough when they wen...

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...rior, whence the deluges of melted stone have originally proceeded. Within historical times, no signs of volcanic activity have, I believe, been mani-... ...hardly be neglected by any one, although merely considering the physi- cal geography of the country. Having crossed the 86 The V oyage of the Beagle ... ...every one. They live *See Humboldt, Fragments Asiatiques, p. 386: Barton’s Geography of Plants: and Malte Brun. In the latter work it is said that the... ...tones,” so forcibly convey to my mind the ide of a convulsion, of which in historical records we might i vain seek for any counterpart: yet the progre... ...ain Fitz Roy dur- ing the last voyage, is a most remarkable feature in the geography of this, or indeed of any other coun- try: it may be compared to ... ...eaved and since par- tially worn down, two volcanos, and perhaps more, are historically known to have been in action. On the other hand, although most...

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...th- out a shilling. Johnson wrote for him a Preface to A System of Ancient Geography; and, by the favour of Lord Thurlow, got him admitted a poor brot... ... Orbis, in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon ancient geography. Though by no means niggardly, his attention to what was gen- era... ..., except the Preface to his old amanuensis Macbean’s Dictionary of Ancient Geography. ‘TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. ‘DEAR SIR,— … A new edition of my great ... ...r victory,’ rather urged plausible objections to Dr. Robertson’s excellent historical works, in the ardour of contest, than expressed his real and dec... ...ry fit for a brothel.’ Mr. Macbean, authour of the Dictionary of an- cient Geography, came in. He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from S...

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... with that view when duly tempered with wise conformity, and could mention historical examples before unknown to her. “He thinks with me,” said Doroth... ... ideal combat for her, tomahawk in hand, so to speak, was necessary to the historical continuity of the mar- riage-tie. On the contrary, having the am... ...” said Will, in an offhand way, “that the Ger- mans have taken the lead in historical inquiries, and they laugh at results which are got by groping ab... ...e I am naturally led to reflect on the means of elevat- ing a low subject. Historical parallels are remarkably efficient in this way. The chief object... ... around her, had wrought herself into some independent clearness as to the historical, political reasons why eldest sons had superior rights, and why ... ... the best means—something to which she must go doggedly. Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by M... .... Garth was alarmed lest they should never be well grounded in grammar and geography. Nevertheless, they were found quite forward enough when they wen...

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... seventy-eight years old. There were two books lying on the table, a short geography and the New T estament in the Russian translation, pencil-marked ... ...im. And if only the hero had been a great or interesting man, or something historical like Roslavlev, or Yury Miloslavsky; instead of that he was desc... ...father often. Mother told me to. Grandfather bought a New T estament and a geography book, and began to teach me; and sometimes he used to tell me wha...

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...9 Hawthorne to the imaginary events of this narrative. If permitted by the historical connection,—which, though slight, was essential to his plan,—the... ...een a lion; the natural history of the region being as little known as its geography, which was put down most fantastically awry. The other adornment ...

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...arcase, and as soon as they have done it, you shall hear me say my ancient geography, and then we will do a nice bit of T asso; and if we have any tim... ... be- lieve. They asked all manner of out-of-the-way questions— history and geography, what no one expected, and the fellows who read nothing they can ... ... g e been above me. There was nothing I really knew better, ex- cept those historical questions that no one reckoned on; and not living at home with t... ...ls, as if these defects had been im- planted either by Mrs. Ledwich, or by geography. It must be confessed that the violence of partisanship did not m...

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...tics during the seven months at Jefferson Barracks, and read many valuable historical works, besides an occasional novel. To help my memory I kept a b... ... feet of the rebel lines. Near by stood a stunted oak-tree, which was made historical by the event. It was but a short time before the last vestige of... ... and productive grazing and farming lands were there. This territory , the geography of which was not known to us at the close of the rebellion, is no... ...y perfect, of every part of the coun- try are now furnished the student of geography. The war has made us a nation of great power and intelli- gence. ...

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...mong the younger friends of this couple a legend, almost too venerable for historical criticism, that the marriage itself, the happiest of its class, ... ...or him beforehand by innumerable facts, facts largely of the sort known as historical, made by ances tors, examples, traditions, habits; while Maggie... ...vain in the most rudimentary map of the social relations as such. The only geography marking it would be doubtless that of the fundamental pas sions....

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...nd I shall imagine I have not wholly misemployed myself in the thoughts I shall have on this occasion, if, in this historical, plain method, I can giv... ...ach very little general knowledge concerning the species of bodies and their several proper- ties. Experiments and historical observations we may have... ...iven constantly for- wards and backwards in a narrow lane and dirty road, only to market, should be skilled in the geography of the country. Nor is it...

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...belonging to the office, yet the secret was known by them all. It had been historical for the last four or five years, and was now regarded as a thing... ...-path to the left as soon as he had got beyond the houses. Not knowing the geography of the place he did not understand that by taking that path he wa...