Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 24

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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.
Page 526 - A Law Dictionary ; or the Interpreter of Words and Terms, Used either in the Common or Statute Laws of that part of Great Britain call'd England ; and In Tenures and Jocular Customs ; First published by the Learned Dr.
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...

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