10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERLINGNESS»
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sterlingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sterlingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dublin quarterly journal of medical science
The days of humbug are rapidly coining to a close, and nothing now but
sterlingness of character will carry individuals or nations permanently through.
We hail, therefore, with pleasure Dr. Scrive's manly work. We do not read its
pages with any ...
2
Holmes's Great metropolis: or, Views and history of London ...
The citizens, as succeeding eras progressively develope their character, seem
ever to have maintained a decided principle of action, a sterlingness of behaviour
throughout the fitful changes and severe ordeals to which they were subjected ...
Thomas Holmes (publisher.), 1851
3
The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.
Open- hearted and generous to a friend, Ben is not one whom I should like to
number amongst my enemies, for the very sterlingness of his character makes
him also a hearty hater. Lay before him a case of oppression, and his very soul ...
4
The Youth of Shakspeare
Here is famous goldsrnith's work in wedding-rings of metal that cannot be
matched for sterlingness, and are moreover known to keep all wives true to their
husbands, and to hold them so obedient withal, they shall take a cudgelling or
kissing ...
Robert Folkestone Williams, 1839
5
Preciosa. A tale. [By F. T. Palgrave.]
But I cannot quite assent ; and I please myself with thinking you will agree with
your brother, that whilst we recognise the necessity, the sterlingness (I cannot hit
the right word) of the present, we should not all forget the ' beauty of the past.
Francis Turner Palgrave, 1852
6
The Youth of Shaksapeare
Here are-leather purses-that have been charmed by a conjuror,.so that they have
the 'virtue to double whatever money they shall hold. Here is famous " -
goldsmith's work in wedding-rings of metal that cannot be matched for
sterlingness, and ...
Shakspeare and his Friends, 1839
By these means the old English simplicity and sterlingness of character is fast
being annihilated ; our once happy and honest husbandmen are converted into
abject slaves, and the transition to midnight poachers and reckless murderers,
when ...
Of the sterlingness of his intellect, methinks he hath left good evidence; yet it
cannot in any way be compared with what might have resulted from such a
source, had he lived to disencumber himself of the affectations of his age. But of
his virtues ...
9
Transactions - Botanical Society of Edinburgh
I attribute much of the sterlingness of his character to the close association he
had with his family at that period immediately preceding his student life, when the
mind and habits are so easily moulded for good or evil. Fortunately for him whose
...
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1868
10
The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, ...
... there is a sterlingness of thought (if the expression may he permitted) which
marks the country to which they belong : — but we believe it would puzzle the
most acute and experienced judge of the literature of all European nations, to fix
upon ...
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