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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... Persons of eminence in Literature , Science , or Art , connected with the West of England , but not resident in Devonshire , may , at a General Meeting of the Members , be elected Honorary Members of the Association ; and persons not ...
... Persons of eminence in Literature , Science , or Art , connected with the West of England , but not resident in Devonshire , may , at a General Meeting of the Members , be elected Honorary Members of the Association ; and persons not ...
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... persons at large , bringing together , Ariel - like , the ends of the earth , and making " the whole world kin , " were strikingly seen last year in the terrible wreck of the Schiller on the Scilly Isles . There , whilst the interment ...
... persons at large , bringing together , Ariel - like , the ends of the earth , and making " the whole world kin , " were strikingly seen last year in the terrible wreck of the Schiller on the Scilly Isles . There , whilst the interment ...
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... persons were indicated by hair or complexion of a particular tint . Cain was given a sallow complexion not unlike ... person was seen in the act of calling down a curse on another in the following manner . She spread the ashes of a ...
... persons were indicated by hair or complexion of a particular tint . Cain was given a sallow complexion not unlike ... person was seen in the act of calling down a curse on another in the following manner . She spread the ashes of a ...
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... person , and knew more than most people ; and in order to show conclusively that this was the case , and get rid of any scepticism there might have been on the part of Mr. Bewes and Mr. Pearse , she stated , as an explanatory fact ...
... person , and knew more than most people ; and in order to show conclusively that this was the case , and get rid of any scepticism there might have been on the part of Mr. Bewes and Mr. Pearse , she stated , as an explanatory fact ...
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... person was dying , and a white stag was seen to walk up to the door of the sick room and there stop and crow three times , and then vanish . Chairs have been seen to move about the rooms where people lay dying . A woman was watching her ...
... person was dying , and a white stag was seen to walk up to the door of the sick room and there stop and crow three times , and then vanish . Chairs have been seen to move about the rooms where people lay dying . A woman was watching her ...
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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.