The price rose incontinently to twenty, thirty, fifty francs, until the peasants discovered a gold-mine in their old kitchen crockery, and now their stock is sold out.
Colour holds the eye and courts our admiration, and fancy prices rule the market.
Gli equipaggi della luna vengono a terra alzando in cadenza fuor dalle onde i lunghi remi d'argento, perchè ne grondino perle innamorate e sguardi spiralici di bionde bionde che quando dormono guardano ancora coi loro denti di perle.
Advance this man," said Barras to his colleagues, "or he will advance himself without you.
On the evening of the 13th of January, tidings were brought him that Joubert had all that day been maintaining his ground with difficulty; and he instantly hastened to what now appeared to be the proper scene of action for himself.
The cool gaiety of this pleased Buonaparte; he kept his eye on the man; and Junot came in the sequel to be Marshal of France and Duke of Abrantes.
His flesh looked, on the contrary, firm and muscular.
The collection was a mighty heap of incense for the benefit of the national vanity; and the hand which brought it together was preparing the means of inflicting on that vanity one of the most intolerable of wounds, in its ultimate dispersion.
On the 16th the vanguard, under Lannes, reached the beautiful vale of Aosta, and the other divisions descended rapidly on their footsteps.
After many a conflict with their neighbours of Florence, the Ubaldini of Val di Mugello paid the penalty of their Ghibelline principles, by expulsion from their native fiefs, and were scattered throughout Central Italy.
Opposed to him was Roberto di Sanseverino, as leader of the Venetian army; and the papal contingent was nominally under Count Girolamo, who did not take the field, although the quarrel was in a great measure for his profit.
The tactics of Braccio di Montone were rapid and decisive, the policy of Attendolo Sforza cautious to a proverb; extremes which the Count of Urbino's practice was considered happily to have combined.
Signor Bellani had observed the same fact in 1813, and published it in the Giornale di Fisica, vol.
We mentioned that the bases of the mountains bordering the Lake of Como were chiefly composed of black marble; black, at least, when polished, and very dark gray in its general effect.
This is the rich champaign land, in which large trees are more sparingly scattered, and which is chiefly devoted to the purposes of agriculture.
We have therefore at present only to offer a few remarks on the principles to be observed in the erection of Elizabethan villas at the present day.
A good instance of these united peculiarities is seen in Villa Somma-Riva, Lago di Como.
Paleness of color destroys the majesty of a building; first, by hinting at a disguised and humble material; and, secondly, by taking away all appearance of age.
I grandi olmi dello spiazzo, coperti di piccole foglie nuove, producevano un susurro, ora leggero ora forte, alla cui misura le ombre or meno or più si agitavano.
Thus Giovanni Villani, speaking of the heretic Dolcino, says in his Chronicle (bk.
Though the protest was effective in certain directions, we shall see that the authors of the Hippocratic writings could not entirely escape from the hypotheses of the older philosophers.
Such instruments as the earlier ages possessed were little more than primitive hand-made tools.
How came it possible that the gifts of Athens and of Alexandria were deliberately thrown away?
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