The North American Review, Volume 64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 122
... Becket by ; but much more is wanting to present him in all his lineaments to the imagination . We have certainly no wish to detract from our author's real merit . He has shown great diligence in searching out , among the English and ...
... Becket by ; but much more is wanting to present him in all his lineaments to the imagination . We have certainly no wish to detract from our author's real merit . He has shown great diligence in searching out , among the English and ...
Page 123
... Becket . Our purpose , at pres- ent , in a very cursory review of the leading incidents in the life of this extraordinary man , is chiefly to indicate the rich- ness of a mine which has been less explored by the biogra- pher and the ...
... Becket . Our purpose , at pres- ent , in a very cursory review of the leading incidents in the life of this extraordinary man , is chiefly to indicate the rich- ness of a mine which has been less explored by the biogra- pher and the ...
Page 124
... Becket as only Beck with an affix , the town of Bec in Nor- mandy is perhaps as good evidence of foreign_extraction . * The best evidence for Becket's Saxon blood is found in a letter , quoted by Lyttleton , in which he says that his ...
... Becket as only Beck with an affix , the town of Bec in Nor- mandy is perhaps as good evidence of foreign_extraction . * The best evidence for Becket's Saxon blood is found in a letter , quoted by Lyttleton , in which he says that his ...
Page 125
... Becket , who , on his way to the Holy Sepulchre , had been captured by her father and reduced to slavery . The slave , however , having gained the favor of the parent , unknowingly stole away also the heart of the child . The heart ...
... Becket , who , on his way to the Holy Sepulchre , had been captured by her father and reduced to slavery . The slave , however , having gained the favor of the parent , unknowingly stole away also the heart of the child . The heart ...
Page 126
... Becket's father and mother were both citizens of the middle class . ” * It was impossible , of course , that so illustrious a saint should come into the world without some precious scraps of ante - natal history . His mother's dreams ...
... Becket's father and mother were both citizens of the middle class . ” * It was impossible , of course , that so illustrious a saint should come into the world without some precious scraps of ante - natal history . His mother's dreams ...
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