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... Meetings of Sections , 484 President's Address , 451 Societies . Anthropological Institute - Elections , 22 , 55 , 755 ... Meeting : President's Address ; Statistics- Resignation of Dr. Gray - Appointment of Capt . Francis Oates and Mr ...
... Meetings of Sections , 484 President's Address , 451 Societies . Anthropological Institute - Elections , 22 , 55 , 755 ... Meeting : President's Address ; Statistics- Resignation of Dr. Gray - Appointment of Capt . Francis Oates and Mr ...
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... Meeting of Wellington and Blucher , ' 889 . MUSIC . Reviews . Alwyn's ( W. C. ) Like as the Hart Desireth , 455 Baker's ( Lady ) Mother's Book of Song , 218 Beethoven's ( L. ) Sonatas for the Pianoforte , 154 Bellasis's ( E. ) Cherubini ...
... Meeting of Wellington and Blucher , ' 889 . MUSIC . Reviews . Alwyn's ( W. C. ) Like as the Hart Desireth , 455 Baker's ( Lady ) Mother's Book of Song , 218 Beethoven's ( L. ) Sonatas for the Pianoforte , 154 Bellasis's ( E. ) Cherubini ...
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... MEETING will be held at BELFAST , commencing on WEDNESDAY , August 19 . President - Elect . Professor TYNDALL , D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. F.C.S. NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS OF MEMOIRS.- Authors are reminded that , under an arrangement dating from ...
... MEETING will be held at BELFAST , commencing on WEDNESDAY , August 19 . President - Elect . Professor TYNDALL , D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. F.C.S. NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS OF MEMOIRS.- Authors are reminded that , under an arrangement dating from ...
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... meeting are in the same uncials as the headings of the the temporary depositing of the manuscript intercourse was kept up between England and century , and that they " bear an unequivocal matured , and the copying of the manuscript ...
... meeting are in the same uncials as the headings of the the temporary depositing of the manuscript intercourse was kept up between England and century , and that they " bear an unequivocal matured , and the copying of the manuscript ...
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... meeting to ascertain if any steps can be taken to increase the amount in the treasurer's hands , which is now upwards of 1,000l . We believe that a meeting of the Committee will be summoned almost im- mediately , when the form which the ...
... meeting to ascertain if any steps can be taken to increase the amount in the treasurer's hands , which is now upwards of 1,000l . We believe that a meeting of the Committee will be summoned almost im- mediately , when the form which the ...
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Page 32 - The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those that published it. 12 Kings of armies did flee apace; and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. 13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 190 - LETTERS and LIFE of FRANCIS BACON, including all his Occasional Works. Collected and edited, with a Commentary, by J.
Page 201 - And if, unsatisfied, with them all, the human mind, with the yearning of a pilgrim for his distant home, will still turn to the Mystery from which it has emerged, seeking so to fashion it as to give unity to thought and faith ; so long as this is done, not only without intolerance or bigotry of any kind, but with the enlightened recognition that ultimate fixity of conception is here unattainable, and that each succeeding age must be held free to fashion the mystery in accordance with its own needs...
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Page 200 - I join,' says Draper, in the pious prayer of Alhazen, ' that in the day of judgment the All-Merciful will take pity on the soul of Abur-Raihan, because he was the first of the race of men to construct a table of specific gravities.' If all this be historic truth (and I have entire confidence in Dr. Draper), well may he 'deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has contrived to put out of sight our scientific obligations to the Mahommedans.
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Page 41 - She whispered still that brightness would return, She, in the midst of all, preserved me still A Poet, made me seek beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth...
Page 41 - ... ordinary ; if you expected to see an ordinary woman, you would think her pretty ! but her manners are simple, ardent, impressive. In every motion, her most innocent soul outbeams so brightly, that who saw would say, " Guilt was a thing impossible in her." Her information various. Her eye watchful in minutest observation of nature ; and her taste, a perfect electrometer.
Page 199 - When smitten with the disease, the Christian peasant resorted to a shrine ; the Moorish one to an instructed physician. The Arabs encouraged translations from the Greek philosophers, but not from the Greek poets. They turned in...