American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette, Volume 7,Nummer 1 -Volume 8,Nummer 6

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Book Publishers' Association, 1861
 

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Pagina 196 - ... trees, twisting down almost to the earth and rising again into the air. It was connected with the tragical story of the unfortunate Andre, who had been taken prisoner hard by, and was universally known by the name of Major Andre's Tree.
Pagina 196 - In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled, and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.
Pagina 195 - A few rough logs laid side by side served for a bridge over this stream. On that side of the road where the brook entered the wood, a group of oaks and chestnuts, matted thick with wild grape-vines, threw a cavernous gloom over it. To pass this bridge was the severest trial. It was at this identical spot that the unfortunate Andre" was captured, and under the covert of those chestnuts and vines were the sturdy yeomen concealed who surprised him.
Pagina 150 - Publishers' Circular (The), and General Record of British and Foreign Literature. Published on the 1st and I5th of every Month, 3^.
Pagina 213 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Pagina 28 - It requires," he used to say, " a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. Their only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of WUT, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.
Pagina 59 - Illustrated Horse Doctor. Being an Accurate and Detailed Account, accompanied by more than 400 Pictorial Representations, characteristic of the various Diseases to which the Equine Race are subjected; together with the latest Mode of Treatment. and all the requisite Prescriptions written in Plain English By EDWARD MAYHEW, MRCVS 8vo.
Pagina 93 - Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, exhibiting their Origin, Divisions, and Connexions, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the Cutaneous Surface, and to all the Muscles. By WILLIAM H. FLOWER, FRCS, FRS, Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy, and Conservator of the Museum, Royal College of Surgeons.
Pagina 203 - He was not afraid of us. He stood there, and beat his breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar. The roar of the gorilla is the most singular and awful noise heard in these African woods. It begins with a sharp bark, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which I have sometimes been tempted...
Pagina 15 - You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from 106 Ralph Waldo Emerson .of the shop-windows.

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