Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 8Devonshire Press, 1876 - Devon (England) List of members in each volume. |
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... means a tree . " This perhaps sounds a little like hypocrisy ; but Herbert was too good a man to intend by his advice any thing ap- proaching to double - dealing ; neither do I pretend to say that I do not value exceedingly the great ...
... means a tree . " This perhaps sounds a little like hypocrisy ; but Herbert was too good a man to intend by his advice any thing ap- proaching to double - dealing ; neither do I pretend to say that I do not value exceedingly the great ...
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... means for good must be left to those whose brains are as active as their hearts are large , and who frequently ... mean meteorology . It may be presumptuous in me to give any opinion on the matter , yet I suppose that this branch of ...
... means for good must be left to those whose brains are as active as their hearts are large , and who frequently ... mean meteorology . It may be presumptuous in me to give any opinion on the matter , yet I suppose that this branch of ...
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... means of gratifying that love are , as far as I can see , a long way off from being commensurate . Whilst there is an ever - increasing demand for cheap and good books , which meets with a ready response , in England at any rate , there ...
... means of gratifying that love are , as far as I can see , a long way off from being commensurate . Whilst there is an ever - increasing demand for cheap and good books , which meets with a ready response , in England at any rate , there ...
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... means are required for the surroundings and possessions of high art , means such as we cannot all have " Non cuivis contingit adire Corinthum . " Therefore I venture to say a word for good imitations of good art work , whether in ...
... means are required for the surroundings and possessions of high art , means such as we cannot all have " Non cuivis contingit adire Corinthum . " Therefore I venture to say a word for good imitations of good art work , whether in ...
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... means for intellectual enjoyment and cultivation are brought more and more within the reach of all classes . Public galleries , public museums , public libraries are not only promoters of material civilization , they are some- thing ...
... means for intellectual enjoyment and cultivation are brought more and more within the reach of all classes . Public galleries , public museums , public libraries are not only promoters of material civilization , they are some- thing ...
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Page 645 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know ? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven ? 43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
Page 526 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased : The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Page 737 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 425 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 34 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow...
Page 103 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 33 - The wisdom of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works : those highly magnify him whose judicious enquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his creatures, return the duty of a devout and learned admiration.
Page 697 - God : with Christ I am nailed to the cross. 20 And I live, now not I ; but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh : I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered himself for me.
Page 42 - But where shall wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 813 - Genoese shipping at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries.