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DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS Ability A 1 The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Gibbon, Décliné and Fallt ch. 68 2 There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. La Rochefoucauld, Reflections 3 The desire of appearing to be wise, often...

sEDITOR'S NOTE.In this edition of Herrick quotation is for the firs? time facilitated by the poems being numbered according to their order in the original edition. This numbering has rendered it possible to print those Epigrams, which successive editors have joined in deploring, in a detachable...

VO RWO RTDas Fehlen eines brauchbaren Fachwörterbuches in englischer und deutscher Sprache für das gesamte Geld-, Bank- und Börsenwesen gab die Atttégung zu dem vorlie-genden Wörterbuch. Der Verfasser stellte sich die Aufgabe, den interessierten Kreisen ein für Praxis und Studium...

CHAPTER ONE in which mary gives a helping paw " Cock-a-doodle-doo ! " said the cock. " Cock-a-doodle-doo ! " vv.^,, A- Mary sat up in bed, looking very ruffled. She cocked her head and listened. " Cock-a-doodle-doo ! " repeated the cock. " Gracious I That's the cock waking me up, it must be...