The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom: Being an Account of Their Respective Origin, History, Objects, and Constitution : with Full Details Respecting Membership, Fees, Their Published Works and Transactions, Notices of Their Periods and Places of Meeting, &c. and a General Introduction and a Classified Index

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G. Willis, 1853 - Book clubs - 379 pages
 

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Page 203 - A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 264 - The Circuit of Ireland ; by Muircheartach Mac Neill, Prince of Aileach; a Poem written in the year 942 by Cormacan Eigeas, Chief Poet of the North of Ireland. Edited, with a Translation and Notes, and a Map of the Circuit, by JOHN O'DoNOVAN, Esq. 2. " A Brife Description of Ireland, made in this year 1589, by Robert Payne, vnto xxv. of his partners, for whom he is vndertaker there.
Page 267 - A Covenant in Irish between Mageoghegan and the Fox; with a Translation, and historical Notices of the two Families, by JOHN O'DONOVAN, Esq.
Page 251 - Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Page 21 - Book of Common Prayer, according to the MS. preserved in the Rolls Record Office, Dublin. Edited by AJ STEPHENS, Esq., QC, LL.D. 3 volumes, demy 8vo., cloth. Price £1 11s. 6d. Book of Common Prayer...
Page 265 - Rath (Moira), from an ancient MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Edited in the original Irish, with a Translation and Notes, by JOHN O'DONOVAN. II. Tracts relating to Ireland, vol. u. containing: 1 . " A Treatise of Ireland ; by John Dymmok.
Page 267 - Of these, the first had for its main object 'the reprinting, without abridgment, alteration, and omission, of the best works of the Fathers and early Writers of the Reformed English Church, published in the period between the accession of king Edward VI.
Page 129 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 265 - Mayo. Edited from the Book of Lecan, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, and from a copy of the Mac Firbis MS.
Page 227 - The Black Prince, an Historical Poem, written in French, by CHANDOS HERALD; with a Translation and Notes by the REV.

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