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... Remains the Same is an inspired intellectual romp: part memoir, part criticism, though actually a bracing, larkish reinvention of them both." —Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder "Sometimes we have the notion ...
... Remains the Same is an inspired intellectual romp: part memoir, part criticism, though actually a bracing, larkish reinvention of them both." —Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder "Sometimes we have the notion ...
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... Remains of the Day was released in 1993, audiences had every reason to expect a quality cinematic experience. The ... Remains of the Day was no exception. The story it tells centers around James Stevens, who has. The Remains of the Day ...
... Remains of the Day was released in 1993, audiences had every reason to expect a quality cinematic experience. The ... Remains of the Day was no exception. The story it tells centers around James Stevens, who has. The Remains of the Day ...
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... Remains of John Byrom . Edited by RICHARD PARKINSON , D.D. , F.S.A. Vol . I. Part I. pp . x , 320. Portrait . XXXIII . Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court , Chester . The First Portion . Edited by ...
... Remains of John Byrom . Edited by RICHARD PARKINSON , D.D. , F.S.A. Vol . I. Part I. pp . x , 320. Portrait . XXXIII . Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court , Chester . The First Portion . Edited by ...
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... remain.” Another internal memorandum dated October 25, 1991—the date of final settlement for the purchase of the Lancaster site—discussed preparation of the final cost estimates for the proposed Antelope Valley Area project and stated ...
... remain.” Another internal memorandum dated October 25, 1991—the date of final settlement for the purchase of the Lancaster site—discussed preparation of the final cost estimates for the proposed Antelope Valley Area project and stated ...
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... remains of forensic interest – that is, remains which are germane to a modern criminal investigation; it is about finding these remains and recovering them. It is a book about clandestine burials and concealment, about what can ...
... remains of forensic interest – that is, remains which are germane to a modern criminal investigation; it is about finding these remains and recovering them. It is a book about clandestine burials and concealment, about what can ...
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Page 58 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The...
Page 112 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Page 233 - Mecklenburg with desolation. I know, Sire, that it seems unbecoming my sex, in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly my province to study the...
Page 178 - There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreathed with mine alone, That destiny's relentless knife At once must sever both or none. There is a form on which these eyes Have often gazed with fond delight ; By day that form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night. There is...
Page 56 - Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now forty years since I worked like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer.
Page 58 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Page 319 - I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.
Page 58 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...