Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 24Devonshire Press, 1892 List of members in each volume. |
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... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific enquiry in Devonshire ; and to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science , Literature , or Art , in different parts of the county . 3. The Association ...
... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific enquiry in Devonshire ; and to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science , Literature , or Art , in different parts of the county . 3. The Association ...
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... give notice , in writing or personally , to the General Secretary of their intention to withdraw from the Association , shall be regarded as members for the ensuing year . 25. The Association shall , within three months after each ...
... give notice , in writing or personally , to the General Secretary of their intention to withdraw from the Association , shall be regarded as members for the ensuing year . 25. The Association shall , within three months after each ...
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... give notice in writing or personally to the General Secretary of their intention to withdraw from the Association are regarded as Members for the ensuing year . The Treasurer's Address is - EDWARD VIVIAN , Esq . , Woodfield , Torquay ...
... give notice in writing or personally to the General Secretary of their intention to withdraw from the Association are regarded as Members for the ensuing year . The Treasurer's Address is - EDWARD VIVIAN , Esq . , Woodfield , Torquay ...
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... give greater attention to the present state of our country , and of our county . SOCIAL SCIENCE . I fear that Social or Economic Science , for which perhaps we want a word like demology , may be considered rather a dry subject ; but I ...
... give greater attention to the present state of our country , and of our county . SOCIAL SCIENCE . I fear that Social or Economic Science , for which perhaps we want a word like demology , may be considered rather a dry subject ; but I ...
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... gives a population of nearly one hundred and fifty millions , more than five times as great as at present , and perhaps twenty times as great as it was in the time of Goldsmith . We all know the beautiful lines in which he lamented the ...
... gives a population of nearly one hundred and fifty millions , more than five times as great as at present , and perhaps twenty times as great as it was in the time of Goldsmith . We all know the beautiful lines in which he lamented the ...
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Page 138 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Page 499 - Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere Sf.
Page 15 - Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art for with the consent of the Council of the Association...
Page 433 - Shakspeare the attribute of gentle, he was not inferior to him ; — generosity, courtesy, temperance in the depths of passion ; sweetness, in a word, and gentleness ; Christianism, and true hearty Anglicism of feelings, shaping that Christianism, shine throughout his beautiful writings in a manner more conspicuous than in those of Shakspeare, but only more conspicuous, inasmuch as in Heywood these qualities are primary, in the other subordinate to poetry. I love them both equally, but Shakspeare...
Page 71 - DISCONTENTS IN DEVON. MORE discontents I never had Since I was born than here, Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull Devonshire...
Page 8 - Meetings, the aiFairs of the Association shall be managed by a Council, which shall consist exclusively of the following Members of the Association, excepting Honorary Members, and Corresponding Members:— (a) Those who fill, or have filled, or are elected to fill, the offices of President, General and Local Treasurers, General and Local Secretaries, and Secretaries of Committees appointed by the Council (b) Authors of papers which have been printed in extcnso in the Transactions of the Association.
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Page 524 - The interpreter : or booke containing the Signification of Words. Wherein is set forth the true meaning of all, or the most part of such words and Termes, as are mentioned in the Law Writers, or Statutes of this victorious and renowned Kingdome, requiring any Exposition or Interpretation.
Page 260 - Hales-Oweyn, a bok of myn called Catholicon to theyr own use for ever ; and another boke of myn, wherein is contaigned the Constitutions Provincial...
Page 337 - Bere is made of malte, of hoppes, and water: it is a naturall drynke for a Dutche man. And nowe of late dayes it is moche vsed in Englande to the detryment of many Englysshe men...