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Page 49 - Crown 8vo, 6s. Cyclopaedia of Common things. Edited by the Rev. Sir GEORGE W. Cox, Bart., MA With 500 Illustrations. Third Edition. Large post 8vo, Js. 6d. DALTON, Rev. John Male, MA, RN— Sermons to Naval Cadets. Preached on board HMS
Page 351 - Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.
Page 140 - STORMONTH. Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. Including a very Copious Selection of Scientific Terms. For Use in Schools and Colleges, and as a Book of General Reference. By the Rev. JAMES STORMONTH. The Pronunciation carefully Revised by the Rev. PH PHELP, MA Cantab. Tenth Edition, Revised throughout. Crown 8vo, pp. 800. 7s. 6d. Dictionary of the English Language...
Page 297 - Mecca, &c., will be retained in their present form. 3. The true sound of the word as locally pronounced will be taken as the basis of the spelling.
Page 136 - His power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses. He saw as with microscope, heard as with ear-trumpet, and his memory was a photographic register of all he saw and heard.
Page 101 - INDEX MEDICUS.— A Monthly Classified Record of the Current Medical Literature of the World.
Page 123 - Koran (and parts of them) are to be entered under those words; the sacred books of other religions are to be entered under the names by which they are generally known; references to be given from the names of editors, translators, etc.
Page 351 - On the SENSATIONS of TONE as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.
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Page 297 - When two vowels come together each one is sounded, though the result when spoken quickly is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from a single sound, as in ai...