Word: als
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be destroyed. (a) The executive would be merged in the legislative. (b) The weaker of the Houses of Congress would succumb to the stronger. (c) The equal representation of the states will be lost-Lowell, in Atlantic Monthly, February, 1886; Von Holst Constitutional Law S25 S26; Hare Constitution al Law, pp. 175-180; Nation, 28-243; Pomeroy Constitutional...
...popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although the and ??? theories are too chimerical to be a ken seriously. It is not probable ??? believes in them himself. The book...
...Assemblies" of Al Hariri, selections from which were read last night by Mr. Jewett, although one of the greatest works of Arabic literature, are almost completely unknown to the western world. They are written in the most elegant Arabic and are often learnt by heart. The plot is simple throughout, as there are only two characters, a narrator and a clever adventurer, who passes his time in duping kindhearted people by pious speeches. The assemblies are so called because the events related took place before a number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought...
...Selections from Al Hariri. Sever...
...Earl complained that the fire was not large enough, when a person named Ervalton of Spayne, went down stayers, and beneth in the court he saw a great many of asses laden with woode to serve the house, that he went and tooke one of the greatest asses with al the woode, and layde him on hys back, and went up al the stayrs into the galary, and dyd caste downe the asse with al the woode into the chimney, and the asse's fete upward, whereof the Earl of Foix had great joye, and so had all they that...