Word: adame
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Athenaeum records a sale at London of a number of the prints that have been heliotyped: Durer's "Melancholia," pound 31; Marc Antonio's "Adam and Eve," pound 59, and his "St. Cecilia," pound 50; Rembrandt's "Three Trees," pound 123; a print from Van Dyck's "Iconographia," pound...
...position where earnestness is almost indispensable to success, and indifference a thing to be fought against, instead of cherished. This estimate of the value of earnestness is not exactly new; it certainly must have occurred to Noah when he set about building the ark, - to say nothing of Adam or the pre-Adamite, - and it has been handed down to us in a great many old adages, which are often neglected just because they are so old and tiresome...
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By GEORGE ELIOT, Author of "Adam Bede," "Romola," etc. New York: Harper and Brothers...