That settled the matter, and from that day no one knew what I was up to until I sent the first four volumes of Gunboat Series to my father.
I am told that more than half a million copies altogether have been sold, and that all the large circulating libraries in the country have several complete sets, of which only two or three volumes are ever on the shelves at one time.
The amiable and accomplished author of Proposals for Christian Union, and of Welsh Sketches, has just issued the third and concluding series of his little volumes on Welsh history, civil and ecclesiastical.
Some of the early volumes of The Times newspaper, for instance, would be a curiosity in their {335} way.
Generally speaking, the Harleian volumes are most respectably bound; but they have little variety, and the style of art which they generally exhibit rather belongs to works of devotion.
She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Deventer has published three most interesting volumes of the Advocate's correspondence, but they reach only to the beginning of 1609.
He has suspended his labours exactly at the moment when these volumes begin.
Many volumes might be collected out of the vast accumulation of his writings now mouldering and forgotten in archives.
These volumes contain a slight and rapid sketch of Barneveld's career up to the point at which the Twelve Years' Truce with Spain was signed in the year 1609.
It was rather too high for Marco to reach it, and so Forester took all the volumes down and placed them on a lower shelf, not far from the window, in a place where Marco could get easy access to them.
Thus, though the author hopes that the readers who may honor these volumes with their perusal, will be amused and interested by them, his design throughout will be to instruct rather than to entertain.
There he collected several thousandvolumes of all branches of literature, which are now in the library of the Munich University.
Every contributor to this remarkable work of 12 volumes is well-known in the literary and religious world as a reliable authority upon the subject of his article.
Binion's master work is "Ancient Egypt," two elaborate folio volumes on the art and archaeology of Egypt.
The prefaces to these volumes express, with characteristic charm, the author's dissatisfaction with his handiwork.
To dispel the tedium of the hours which her husband found it necessary to devote to the processes of combination and analysis, Georgiana turned over the volumes of his scientific library.
But the most solacing sentiment in the whole four volumesis by the poet Abu Nuwas Ibn Hani, who carried Hedonism very far: Multiply thy sins to the utmost, for thou art to meet an indulgent Lord.
I do not pretend to have dug in these volumes with any great seriousness.
Owing to the difference of the volumes of the two worlds, the organizing forces of matter must have been comparatively much more violent in the interior of the Moon than in the interior of the Earth.
The series of "Companion Poets for the People," of which these two volumes are the first issues, deserves special commendation as an example of the way in which cheapness and elegance may be combined.
This is another of the cheap volumes of poetry issued by Ticknor & Fields.
She has found at last a biographer worthy of her, and it is to the Due de Noailles' volumes we must refer those who long for further details than our space allows us to give.
Nothing but a deficiency of funds, in the present condition of the pontifical treasury, hinders the immediate issue of other volumes of this and its kindred work, the Inscriptiones Christianae, by the same author.
The above five volumesare portions of Cunningham's "Young Catholic's Library.
Indeed, fidelity to this narrow Protestant maxim would have rendered these twovolumes an impossibility.
In these two luxurious volumes we have the first instalment of an important work upon the most important period of English history.
Indeed, considering that these volumes are the production of a Protestant, we think that less of Protestant animus could hardly be shown, at all consistently with honesty of purpose and frankness of speech.
It was printed for the first time, in 1537, in two volumes folio, and proved its popularity by three different editions within four years.
It is said that his twenty-one foliovolumes have never been sufficiently studied by any one to pronounce on their merits.
Scott would have devoted three volumes to the story, were it not for the difficulty of telling some of its incidents.
On the other hand, the two folio volumes of St. Bernard have been always a treasury of devotion, where the saints and pious of all succeeding ages have been trained.
The governors of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital received from his Majesty the King a copy of Arnold's edition of Handel's works in 49 volumes "for the use of those engaged at the Musical Festival connected with the charity.
One of his most valuable services to musical art was his publication in three volumes quarto of a work on Cathedral Music.
He published from time to time severalvolumes embodying his views on practical Christianity and its application to the improvement of social conditions.
Boron fluoride also combines with ammonia gas, equal volumesof the two gases giving a white crystalline solid of composition BF3.
Borlase's letters to Pope, St Aubyn and others, with answers, fill several volumes of MS.
A series of papers on the palaeontology of the island will be found in the several volumes of the Samml.
The record of his episcopate is to be found in the twovolumes of the Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis (Milan, 1599).
And yet those five volumes may be called the Prose Epic of the modern English nation.
Volumes of smoke were seen issuing from its numerous craters, so long as its bold outline was distinctly defined.
It contains about ten thousandvolumes in all departments of literature, and is highly creditable to the place.
My reading only increased while in this town by two stray volumes of Pamela, and one of Ferdinand Count Fathom, which gave me some idea of novels.
To be highly pleased with your book, is what I have in common with the world; but to regard these volumes as a mark of the author's friendly esteem, is a still more supreme gratification.
Sinclair's statistical volumes are two claims, one I think, from Aberdeenshire, and the other from Ayrshire, for the honour of this song.
That she succeeded in it to admiration, and once more secured a long run for the pretty comedy, speaks volumes for her talent and personal charm.
That in the face of all these very properly pointed out difficulties success should have been won, speaks volumes for the tact of the courageous manager, and the skill of his fellow-workers.
How great might be the impetus to mission interest in our midst if these volumes were made the basis of sermons all over the land.
One of the most readable and instructive volumes on India it has ever been our privilege to read.
Timothy Dwight would probably have rested his title to literary fame on his five volumes of theology and the eleven books of his “Conquest of Canaän.
Fortunately the mood recurred abundantly, and so we have about two dozen volumes from him, filled with lovely poetry.
And Moses Coit Tyler, whose four large volumes on our colonial and revolutionary literature are, for the most part, a much ado about nothing, waxes dithyrambic on this theme.
In spite of this protest, when Mr. Charles Eliot Norton came to print Lowell’s letters, he found enough of them to fill two volumes of four hundred pages each.
But how true a mirror these red volumes present of my sad experiences, while in the happy times the leaves are quite blank!
Along with the above manifestoes, I find in my red volumes an entry, with the singular title written over it: “If Ollivier had married Meyerbeer’s daughter would the war have broken out?
From this period the red volumes are full for some time of political stuff.
That the red volumes exhibit a break just during the happy wedding time and the honeymoon is now to me a great grief.
These red volumes do me excellent service now, when I want to recall the recollections of a life.
It is an endless subject; if you go into details, you might write volumes on it.
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