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... interest and novelty indigenous to Britain . By Messrs . T. J. HUSSEY . Royal 4to . First Series , 90 Coloured Plates , £ 7 12s . 6d . ; Second Series , 50 Coloured Plates , £ 4 10s . BRITISH SEAWEEDS . By S. O. GRAY . Crown 8vo , 16 ...
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... interest than pass - examinations , and are treated as more important , though they are really less . The mere com ... interests of the higher cultivation in England do not now call for more examinations ; rather they demand that the ...
... interest than pass - examinations , and are treated as more important , though they are really less . The mere com ... interests of the higher cultivation in England do not now call for more examinations ; rather they demand that the ...
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... interest and excitement to the youthful mind , and the savants are carried away by the torrent of enthusiasm . It makes them feel young again to assist as trainers , backers , and umpires to the young people . Indeed , if they are not ...
... interest and excitement to the youthful mind , and the savants are carried away by the torrent of enthusiasm . It makes them feel young again to assist as trainers , backers , and umpires to the young people . Indeed , if they are not ...
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... interests and are engaged in similar pur- suits , there is nothing more useful than a magazine . The London Student has been projected with the view of representing the University in London both to its members and to the outer world ...
... interests and are engaged in similar pur- suits , there is nothing more useful than a magazine . The London Student has been projected with the view of representing the University in London both to its members and to the outer world ...
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... We are by no means disposed to attach very high importance to the kind of interest which this passage possesses , but we can hardly recal another example in which the appropriate tone has Pre - Raphaelite Poetry and Painting . 23.
... We are by no means disposed to attach very high importance to the kind of interest which this passage possesses , but we can hardly recal another example in which the appropriate tone has Pre - Raphaelite Poetry and Painting . 23.
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Page 111 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 111 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 196 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O, if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom, in some grove nigh ; 10 As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why.
Page 5 - Magazine. THE HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, and ACOUSTICS. New Edition. Edited by GEO. CAREY FOSTER, BA, FCS With 400 Illustrations. Post 8vo, 5^. cloth. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of Lardner, while correcting his errors and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge.
Page 29 - It lies in heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Page 9 - Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek.
Page 57 - HODGSON -MYTHOLOGY FOR LATIN VERSIFICATION. A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools.
Page 191 - Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, exhibiting their Origin, Divisions, and Connexions, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the Cutaneous Surface, and to all the Muscles. By WILLIAM H.
Page 11 - OPERA, Edited by JM MARSHALL, MA Fellow and late Lecturer of Brasenose College, Oxford ; one of the Masters in Clifton College.
Page 6 - Things: Fire — Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress — The Moon — Common Things : the Earth — The Electric Telegraph — Terrestrial Heat — The Sun — Earthquakes and Volcanoes — Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth's Micrometric Apparatus — Steam— The Steam Engine— The Eye— The Atmosphere— Time — Common Things...