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...- velope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of ... ...ng than I am.” “It’s not your calculating I think ill of; it’s your calcu- lating wrong. You’ve done so in this case.” “You must have made extensive c... ...classical education—he had been bred at Eton, where they study nothing but Latin and Whyte-Melville, said Miss Stackpole—he would be a most useful com...
...the haikus of The Silence Bell are quieted down lyric sparkling, delicate calligraphy, some pieces of uncommon quality”. We see in this more hasty f... ... some ideas/theses/ political, philosophical methods The tracing of some Latin expressions Non-biographical autobiography Puzzle in the novel ...
... That’s what a man is made for, without fashing him- self with letters and Latin and manners, no better than a monk; but my father would always have i... ...d sighed that she could not read the French, and only a very little of the Latin. ‘This you can read,’ said Henry, producing the Canterbury Tales; ‘th... ...to lend her some of the translations 64 Two Penniless Princesses from the Latin of Lydgate, the Monk of Bury, and sent them, wrapped in a silken neck... ...uald shared with two of the Cardinal’s chaplains, in a crooked and crabbed calligraphy and language much more resembling Anglo-Saxon than modern Engli... ...lder. Eleanor held her ro- sary, and though the words she conned over were Latin, all her heart was one silent prayer for protection and deliverance, ... ...to the good Franciscans. ‘Soevi et feroces,’ said the Prior to George, for Latin had turned out to be the most available medium of communica- tion. Sp...
...at cheap, pretentious, and thoroughly inef- ficient schools, knew a little Latin. It was very little, but enough to make him appear to her a Porson or... ...thout utterly disgracing the estab- lishment. Freddy’s power of stating in Latin that Balbus built a wall and that Gaul was divided into three parts d... ...e- quest to Higgins, whose pet artistic fancy, next to Milton’s verse, was calligraphy, and who himself wrote a most beautiful Italian hand, that he w...