 | 1860 - Počet stránok 636
...my text, quite English, from Windsor, where all is full of terraces. In " Kosmos " there occurs once the expression Star-carpet, to explain the starless...Christian. You see, I judge severely when princes write.' A week later he writes : — ' You were right in scolding me for my too great severity against the... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1860 - Počet stránok 382
...February, 1847. I do not know if I have shown you a very charming letter of my brother's, written at Eome in 1805, on the occasion of Schiller's death. It was...by-and-by; it * The Prussian Order of the Black Eagle. — TR. t Sic. in original. — TR, is the only copy there is, and I have given the original away to... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 894
...delicate" compliment. It is strange, too, that lie never mentions Queen Victoria ; who, perhaps, docs not find my book on nature sufficiently Christian. You see, I judge severely when princes write." A week later he writes : — " You were right in scolding mo for my too great severity against the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - Počet stránok 606
...dissatisfaction in the fact that it contained no reference to the Queen. " It is strange, too, that tie neuer mentions QUEEN VICTORIA, who perhaps does not find my book on Nature sufficiently Christian!" It is creditable to the better taste, and better nature of Varnhagen, that he strongly rebuked his... | |
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Kosmos" there occurs once (p. 159) the expression Star-carpet, to explain the starless spots by openings in the firmament. The book on Mexican Monuments, which he makes me a present of, I bought two years ago. A fine illustrated edition of Lord Byron's... 