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... character , to which the Council invite earnest atten- tion . The list of the first Members , with their place of residence and of birth , will be interesting not only to genealogists , but to the several descendants of those Members ...
... character , to which the Council invite earnest atten- tion . The list of the first Members , with their place of residence and of birth , will be interesting not only to genealogists , but to the several descendants of those Members ...
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... character of the work ; but it is one thing to know a book by its cover , and quite another to be familiar with its ... characters always give inadequate notions of structure , whilst in some cases they even mislead by suggesting false ...
... character of the work ; but it is one thing to know a book by its cover , and quite another to be familiar with its ... characters always give inadequate notions of structure , whilst in some cases they even mislead by suggesting false ...
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... characters and disposition of the viscera , or internal organs , should also be exhibited by means of pre- served specimens , by models , and by diagrams . Even where dissections are introduced , they will afford but little informa ...
... characters and disposition of the viscera , or internal organs , should also be exhibited by means of pre- served specimens , by models , and by diagrams . Even where dissections are introduced , they will afford but little informa ...
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... characters . It should be our aim in the cen- tral museum to gather together as typical a collection as possible of Welsh fossils — a collection which would be pecu- liarly rich in many of the oldest known forms of life , since the ...
... characters . It should be our aim in the cen- tral museum to gather together as typical a collection as possible of Welsh fossils — a collection which would be pecu- liarly rich in many of the oldest known forms of life , since the ...
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... character of the place . This is well . The last quarter of the nine- teenth century has overtaken us , and the selfishness that prompted men to look well to their own property and homes , while they neglected the general order and ...
... character of the place . This is well . The last quarter of the nine- teenth century has overtaken us , and the selfishness that prompted men to look well to their own property and homes , while they neglected the general order and ...
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Page 111 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 4 - The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. David's The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Llandaff The Right Rev.
Page 50 - ... of English literature cannot be disconnected from the lively Celtic wit in which it has one of its sources. The Celts do not form an utterly distinct part of our mixed population. But for early, frequent, and various contact with the race that in its halfbarbarous days invented Ossian's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterwards the Northmen's blood in France, Germanic England would not have produced a Shakspeare.
Page 36 - And met its barks and billows high, But not what thou hast lost! " Ye clouds that gorgeously repose Around the setting sun, Answer! have ye a home for those Whose earthly race is run...
Page 13 - When a naturalist goes from one country into another, his first inquiry is for local collections. He is anxious to see authentic and full cabinets of the productions of the region he is visiting.
Page 36 - We depart, We vanish from the sky ; Ask what is deathless in thy heart, For that which cannot die." Speak, then, thou voice of God within, Thou of the deep low tone ! Answer me, through life's restless din — Where is the spirit flown ? And the voice answered—" Be thou still ! Enough to know is given ! Clouds, winds, and stars their part fulfil — Thine is, to trust in Heaven.
Page 111 - I'll change my note soon, and I hope for the better ; May the right use of letters, as well as of men, Hereafter be fixed for the tongue and the pen ; Most devoutly I wish they may both have their due, And that I may be never mistaken for U.
Page 130 - Fardd, who hath discovered some old MSS lately that no body of this age or the last ever as much as dreamed of. And this discovery is to him and me as great as that of America by Columbus. We have found an epic Poem in the British called Gododin, equal at least to the Iliad, Aeneid or Paradise Lost. Tudfwlch and Marchlew are heroes fiercer than Achilles and Satan.
Page 67 - Embrace our aims: work out your freedom. Girls, Knowledge is now no more a fountain sealed; Drink deep until the habits of the slave, The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite And slander, die.
Page 160 - Dear Sir, — This is the third day of the carriage of the ash from Pwll Caradog, and the last, I hope ; and I have sent David Morgan his demand for warehouse room, so that I am entirely clear, I think, of that foolish affair. Make out a bill of what you laid out for my boys' books, and send it me as soon as you can, that I may send you the money when I send for the boys at Whitsuntide. Have you heard what success my reveries had in converting the doctor and his friend from the Camdenian faction....