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... in his collection there were several signatures of father and son hardly distinguishable except by their dates. Hofacker, in Germany, remarks on the inheritance of handwriting; and it has even been asserted that English boys when taught to write in France naturally cling to their English manner of writing; but for so extraordinary a statement more evidence is requisite. (12/8. Hofacker 'Ueber die Eigenschaften' etc. 1828 s. 34. With respect to France, Report by Pariset in 'Comptes Rendus' 1847 page 592.) Gait, gestures, voice, and general bearing ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... style—the secular style, Purcell's style. Let us pause a moment, and ask ourselves if any great composer has ever had more than one style. Put aside the fifth-rate imitators who now copied Mozart, and now Palestrina, and could therefore write in as many styles as there were styles to copy, and not one of them their own. There is no difference between the sacred motets and the secular madrigals of the early polyphonists. Bach did not use dance-measures in his Church music, but in the absence of these lies the ...

— Purcell • John F. Runciman

... tongue shall speak, my pen shall write In praise of thee to tell; The sweetest bird that ever ...

— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various

... these are literally and exactly the things that he now cannot get. That is the almost cloying humour of the present situation. I can say abnormal things in modern magazines. It is the normal things that I am not allowed to say. I can write in some solemn quarterly an elaborate article explaining that God is the devil; I can write in some cultured weekly an aesthetic fancy describing how I should like to eat boiled baby. The thing I must not write is rational criticism of the men ...

— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton

... the seven churches, in obedience to the command,—"What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia," 1:11. He seems to have written what he saw, at the time of its exhibition, and not at the close of the entire presentation; for when he was about to write the discordant utterances of "the seven thunders," he was ...

— A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse • Sylvester Bliss

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