At the headquarters of heathen literatureit was recommended that maimed infants should be killed or exposed to death.
The unreasonableness and unfairness of infidels, or otherwise their ignorance, is manifested in their unwillingness to interpret the literature of religion as they do the language of the sciences.
The literature devoted to stamp collecting is more abundant than that of any other hobby.
Few hobbies, if any, can boast of such a varied and extensive literature as stamp collecting.
Much the same story might be told of the literature of stamp collecting in other countries.
Periodicals providing special literature for ladies have appeared, and there are Turkish authoresses, some of whom enjoy a great reputation among their countrywomen.
The Greek scholars who took refuge in the West, and contributed to its intellectual revival, represented a society which, with all its faults, had not lost its interest in the literature of ancient Hellas, or in general knowledge.
But a wider acquaintance with Byzantine literature since the time of that great student of the antiquities of Constantinople has discovered the names of many churches not upon his list.
A sum of money, got together by these means, will insure to literature (I will take good care of that) a proper expression of itself in the bestowal of an essentially literary appointment, not only now but henceforth.
For the first time within the memory of man, the professors of English literature seem disposed to act together on this question.
Robert Lytton--now the Earl of Lytton--in literaturewell known as "Owen Meredith.
These ballads and those plays looked so genuine that even men of international reputation in literature were deceived.
Mérimée has taken his place in the history of French literature as discreetly as if he were alive.
And this feminine weakness, which dates from Eve, is a common motive in the stories of our oldest literature and Folk-lore.
The policy of buying up all objectionable literature seems to me, I confess, very short-sighted, and in most cases would lead to a greatly increased reprint; it certainly would in these latitudes.
Surely here, thought I, if anywhere, the old world literature will be valued and nursed with gracious care; so with a pleasing sense of the general congruity of all around me, I enquired for the rooms of the librarian.
Authorities Consulted The editors have freely consulted the standard technical and business literature of America and Europe in the preparation of these volumes.
Out of this progress has risen a new literature--the literature of business.
But with the rapid advancement in the science of business, its literature can scarcely be said to have kept pace, at least, not to the same extent as in other sciences and professions.
It is therefore only natural that Russian literature in its general development is closely interwoven with the political and social conditions of Russia at the given moment.
It must be borne in mind that literature was the only outlet for the moral and intellectual forces of Russia.
During the delay caused by these formalities, Carlo devoted himself to the study of dramatic literature in the library of one of the professors.
There are books which no lover of literaturecan afford to be without; classics, ancient and modern, on which the world has pronounced its verdict.
We are to be occupied, not so much with literature as with books, not so much with criticism as with bibliography, the quaint duenna of literature, a study apparently dry, but not without its humours.
Such copies should be handed down from worthy owners to owners not unworthy; such servants of literature should never have careless masters.
Her large library of some four thousand works of the lightest sort of light literaturewas bound by Biziaux.
Old books are often literary relics, and as dear and sacred to the lover ofliterature as are relics of another sort to the religious devotee.
Watson, Mr. Walter Crane, have produced specimens of nurseryliterature which, for refinement of colouring and beauty of ornament, cannot easily be surpassed.
These representatives possessed the power of conferring degrees in the different departments of literature and science.
The principal teachers in the colleges are denominated professors, who confine their labors to communicating instructions in particular branches of literature or science.
Personally, we laugh at him; you had better not, unless you are fain to show that the higher world of politeliterature is unknown to you.
And the literaturehas laboriously mastered the adjective, wherever it may be in relation to the noun," Dr.
When he leaves the Hall to try his fortune in literature in London, he may not be so well able to support Crossjay and obtain the instruction necessary for the boy: and it would be generous to help him.
Imitation itself led him to it; for almost all the models of polite literature existing in his own country, and indeed in the other polished nations of Europe, were characterized by the very same vitiation of taste.
To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.
His long and serene connection with the great and honourable house which had produced the works of such masters of literature as Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and Robert Browning, was always a source of sincere pleasure to him.
The reason of this may be found in the fact that nearly all the Muhammadan dynasties, however much they might be opposed to each other, zealously favoured literature and science.
It is not perhaps fanciful to conjecture that one of the hidden causes of this renaissance is the large quantity of Christian truth which Islam literature holds, so to speak, in solution.
We are all familiar with the rain making ceremonies of the North American Indians; we find frequent reference in literature to the various Spring festivals of the Egyptians at which grain is grown, etc.
The crowning glory of Hanoverian literature was a Great Lexicographer.
Sometimes, as in Our Flat, comic tradesmen interrupt the course of true literature with their ignoble desire for cash payment, and sometimes, as in Our Boys, uncles come and weep at the infinite pathos of a bad breakfast egg.
Else all literaturewill presently be choked up, and the making of books come to an end.
An empty house is realistic literature in the concrete, full of hints and allusions if a little wanting in tangible humanity, and it outdoes the modern story in its own line, by beginning as well as ending in a note of interrogation.
It is amazing what a lot of latter-day literature consists of such breaches of confidence.
So long as you turn all your dietary to flesh and blood you will get no literature out of it.
Seeing you at Kipling, he will propound the proposition that "all true literature has a distinct aim.
This is why ourliterature grows sinister and bitter, and our daughters yearn after this and that, write odd books, and ride about on bicycles in remarkable clothes.
The son of an humble Scottish farmer, he experienced all sorts of misfortunes in his endeavors to pursue literature as a calling.
The history ofliterature is full of instances wherein its votaries have by patient perseverance finally achieved the much-desired fame which has inspired them to endure deprivation and labor.
There seems always to have been a natural attraction in literature which draws from other and less captivating professions.
Coleridge's exhortation to youthful literati may be summed up in one sentence: "Never pursue literature as a trade.
Literature is full of coincidences," says Holmes, "which some love to believe plagiarisms.
Byron's first poetical efforts were failures; so were those of Bulwer-Lytton and Beaconsfield, both in literature and oratory.
Though the old axiom of "genius and a garret" has passed away, both as a saying and in the experiences of real life, still it had its pertinency in the early days of literature and art.
Every thoughtful person must often have realized how close is the natural sympathy between artists in literature and artists of the pencil and brush; between painters and poets.
The Domestic Manners of the Americans" was the result, and so immense was its success that at the age of fifty Mrs. Trollope adoptedliterature as a profession.
It is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, earnest contributors to the literature of England, and active friends of Cavour's Italy.
Whatever judgment may be passed upon this volume in the schools of philosophy or theology, all truth-loving men will agree that it brings honor to the literature and thought of the country.
It is in French literature that its most characteristic expression is to be found; and that, as most closely derivative, historically, from such peculiar conditions, as ever reinforce it to the utmost.
And certainly the tendency of what has been here said is to bring literature too under those conditions, by conformity to which music takes rank as the typically perfect art.
Good art, but not necessarily great art; the distinction between great art and good art depending immediately, as regards literature at all events, not on its form, but on the matter.
