Of this correspondence, so creditable to the hearts of the writers, a few specimens will be found at p.
Specimens may still be picked up in Rome, Florence, Paris, and London; but perhaps the most specimens are in the hands of English amateurs.
In Italy, the collection of majolica made by the Chevalier Massa, at Pesaro, is specially worthy of notice, and contains specimens of most varieties made in the duchy.
This writer has already given the most promising specimens of his own docility in the principles of Illuminatism, and has already passed through several degrees of initiation.
Specimens of this occupation appeared from time to time in Collections of Discourses delivered by the Frere Orateur.
A little way beyond the treasure you had prepared for them they found twospecimens of REAL Roman pottery which sent every man-jack of them home thanking his stars he had been born a happy little Antiquary child.
Well,' the President said, 'these are certainly the specimens which I obtained yesterday.
Take Langon and Castres as specimens of these places: two drearier towns--more like sepulchres than towns--never nurtured owls and bats.
They are eternally snipping and slashing, and turning and twisting the tree, until the unfortunate specimens have had any small degree of natural ease and harmony which they possessed assiduously wrenched out of them.
This was a great prize, as zoologicalspecimens were much sought after at Cassala by an agent from Italy, who had given contracts for a supply.
This portion of the desert was rich in agates and numerous specimens of bloodstone.
The smaller specimens were the more perfect spheres, as they cooled quickly, but many of the heavier masses had evidently reached the earth when only half solidified, and had collapsed upon falling.
Upon reaching Mexico, the mounds are seen to be still further improved in size and form, and specimens of ancient pottery are more abundant.
We shall never meet again, perhaps, but I trust you will not judge all the Japanese soldiers from the specimens at Port Arthur.
Such are some of the specimens of gross infidelity, which the abettors of transcendentalism in New England, openly put forth.
I confess I have been charmed and filled with admiration with some specimens I have met of Irish Christian gentlemen.
At the commencement of the Revolution, Mrs. Wright, a native of Pennsylvania, a distinguished modeler of likenesses and figures of wax, was exhibiting specimens of her skill in London.
Several specimens have been found, and are to be seen in museums; but the noblest of all these is that which is known as the Alfred Jewel.
That the specimens are numerous may be gathered from what has been said above in the description of manuscripts.
There are several extant specimens of various merit, but two are pre-eminent, and these are, beyond all doubt, preserved in their original and unaltered form.
We are no longer content to study history now in one or two admirable specimens of mature perfection, but rather we seek to know history as a subject.
But happily it has not all been lost, and it will be the aim of this chapter to present some specimens of that poetry which is rooted in the native genius of the race, and which we may call the primary poetry.
They are specimensof the vernacular annals of the north, which are now best seen in bulk in Simeon of Durham's Latin Chronicle.
This is done in the present instance because a peculiar interest attaches to it in the earliest specimens of writing.
Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy of detail rival the choicest Daguerreotypes, specimens of which may be seen at their Establishment.
Specimens of either Papers sent between Boards on Receipt of Carriage (Ten Stamps).
When I have an opportunity, I will send a couple ofspecimens of my workmanship.
Several tens of valuable inkslabs and various specimens of tubes and receptacles for pens figured also about; the pens in which were as thickly packed as trees in a forest.
But up to the age I've reached, I have never heard of any such designation, in spite of the many hundreds of specimens of gauzes and silks, I've seen.
But as they only had as yet half the necessaries they required, they drew out a list of the other half and sent it to lady Feng, who, needless for us to particularise, had the different articles purchased, according to the specimens supplied.
Specimens of ancient Indian pottery stood on the sideboard, and there were curtains of embroidered silk, feather-flowers, and silverwork that Kit had brought from Spanish America.
Kit opened a drawer in his big desk, where he kept specimens of featherwork.
We were driven to make a breakfast of berries from the califate-bushes, of which a few mean specimens grew sparsely on the hillside.
The skunk is to be met with throughout the whole country, but we saw perhaps more specimens of this animal in the neighbourhood of Bahia Camerones than elsewhere.
The specific determination of the new specimens is more difficult.
Burne has kindly made some transverse sections, which prove the hairs to be almost or quite cylindrical, and none of the specimens examined present any trace of a medulla.
Some of the new specimens exhibit no indication whatever of having been buried.
Erland Nordenskjoeld has recently compared his specimens from the Patagonian cavern with the skull of Grypotherium darwini at Copenhagen, and finds no specific difference.
Fur thick and woolly, the specimens evidently in winter pelage.
The natural difficulties of the country are very great, but with care, in spite of boulders and hard-going, it seemed as if I could get my waggon up to the foothills, and I looked forward to bringing back many specimens in it.
All the specimensin this series seem to have been accurately determined and sufficiently described by Roth.
It would be impossible to imagine any more healthy specimens of the Welsh race than these sun-kissed, clear-eyed youngsters.
There is thus enough discrepancy to justify the suspicion that the new and the old specimens do not belong to the same animal.
The three specimens now described, when placed approximately in their natural positions, afford a very satisfactory idea of the form and proportions of the skull when complete.
Having heard that there were some fine specimensof asbestos on view at the recent exhibition of the United States products at Earl's Court, I made a journey there specially to see them.
It must, however, be borne in mind that the same rule obtains with many other things as is noted in the vegetable world--namely, that the largest specimens are not necessarily the best.
I have had a great number of specimens sent me, but they mostly turn out to be a coarse kind of so-called bastard asbestos, which would not pay for extracting.
His Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, 1808, is admirable for its critical insight.
These last have the true classic severity, and are among the noblest specimens of weighty and sonorous blank verse in modern poetry.
After the publication of the Gold Bug he received from all parts of the country specimens of cipher writing, which he delighted to work out.
Hundreds of these forgotten names, with specimens of their unread writings, are consigned to a limbo of immortality in the pages of Duyckinck's Cyclopedia, and of Griswold's Poets of America and Prose Writers of America.
In 1838 Ripley began to publish Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature, which extended to fourteen volumes.
In fact, so far as a judgment can be formed from examined specimens of his writings, it appears that our [28] author is the bond-slave of his own phrases.
The latter was most curious to me, who had never seen any but single specimens of the plant, and not many of these.
The chambers of the Count and Countess are particularly fine specimens of the living quarters of the mediaeval nobility, quite apart from their many historic associations.
These fine specimens of mediaeval military architecture are in an admirable state of preservation.
Work on the south tower was discontinued in 1474, which seems a pity, as its completion would have made the cathedral one of the most perfect specimens of Gothic architecture in the world.
This gentleman made a large collection of seeds and dried specimens from the vast variety of beautiful plants and flowers with which nature has so lavishly clothed the hills and plains of this interesting country.
We returned to our lodge in the evening loaded with grouse, but with very fewspecimens to increase my collection.
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