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Side 27
... Boers . Enforce " art for art " as the universal canon , and you sound the knell of historic painting and commemorative sculpture , thereby stripping the Muse of one of her noblest functions . But don't be sur- prised if plain folks say ...
... Boers . Enforce " art for art " as the universal canon , and you sound the knell of historic painting and commemorative sculpture , thereby stripping the Muse of one of her noblest functions . But don't be sur- prised if plain folks say ...
Side 62
... Boer etiquette , their acceptance might be regarded as a pledge on the part of the recipients to treat Clarie better . The same etiquette required that Clarie should not be included in the distribution of gifts , but Hart- ley knew that ...
... Boer etiquette , their acceptance might be regarded as a pledge on the part of the recipients to treat Clarie better . The same etiquette required that Clarie should not be included in the distribution of gifts , but Hart- ley knew that ...
Side 63
... Boers , who brought their cattle here to escape the rigours of the southerly lati- tudes . Very few had houses , the entire family living in the waggon , or , at best , in a few tents or grass huts erected by their Kafir servants . The ...
... Boers , who brought their cattle here to escape the rigours of the southerly lati- tudes . Very few had houses , the entire family living in the waggon , or , at best , in a few tents or grass huts erected by their Kafir servants . The ...
Side 64
There were good reasons why he did not wish to encounter Boer officials , never so alert and officious as during the ... Boers had yet 64 [ July Richard Hartley , Prospector .
There were good reasons why he did not wish to encounter Boer officials , never so alert and officious as during the ... Boers had yet 64 [ July Richard Hartley , Prospector .
Side 65
... Boer - like , had at first insisted that he knew the road , having heard it described by farmers who had made the pilgrimage to the low veld , and on the whole his memory of their instructions served him well . But the rains of a wet ...
... Boer - like , had at first insisted that he knew the road , having heard it described by farmers who had made the pilgrimage to the low veld , and on the whole his memory of their instructions served him well . But the rains of a wet ...
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Side 399 - Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear, It is not night if thou be near ; Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.
Side 410 - Come near and bless us when we wake, Ere through the world our way we take ; Till in the ocean of Thy love We lose ourselves in Heaven above.
Side 365 - Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is in effect but an early custom.
Side 41 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood...
Side 511 - And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins...
Side 483 - His Majesty allowed Earl Temple to say that whoever voted for the India Bill was not only not his friend, but would be considered by him as an enemy ; and if these words were not strong enough, Earl Temple might use whatever words he might deem stronger and more to the purpose.
Side 399 - And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made...
Side 610 - ... to behold this nation, instead of despairing at its alarming condition, looking boldly its situation in the face, and establishing upon a spirited and permanent plan the means of relieving itself from all its...
Side 94 - But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An there's the foe!
Side 148 - And be it enacted, that the Superintendence, Direction, and Control of the whole Civil and Military Government of all the said Territories and Revenues in India shall be and is "hereby vested in a GovernorGeneral and Counsellors, to be styled " The GovernorGeneral of India in Council.