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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... say , has been materially advanced by our Association . I mean the study which partakes of the nature both of science and literature , but which I yet venture to call one study - the archæology and history of our county . I am very far ...
... say , has been materially advanced by our Association . I mean the study which partakes of the nature both of science and literature , but which I yet venture to call one study - the archæology and history of our county . I am very far ...
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... say that they have been continually dwindling , and it seems to be fated that the reign of Queen Victoria should reduce them to utter insignificance . " Ten years afterwards came the Local Government Act of 1888 , which did not actually ...
... say that they have been continually dwindling , and it seems to be fated that the reign of Queen Victoria should reduce them to utter insignificance . " Ten years afterwards came the Local Government Act of 1888 , which did not actually ...
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... say a word in favour of the scientific treatment of political questions . The domestic problems that appear to me to press for a solution are connected with the question , How far the State ought to interfere with private life , and ...
... say a word in favour of the scientific treatment of political questions . The domestic problems that appear to me to press for a solution are connected with the question , How far the State ought to interfere with private life , and ...
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... say that this is the great fact which stands out clearly in the history of our times - the gregariousness of the people the increase of the dwellers in towns , and the diminution of the dwellers in the country . If we take the urban ...
... say that this is the great fact which stands out clearly in the history of our times - the gregariousness of the people the increase of the dwellers in towns , and the diminution of the dwellers in the country . If we take the urban ...
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... say that four acres of land to each dwelling - house would be a perfectly ideal state of sanitation . The growth of London was also discouraged by orders of James I. forbidding country gentlemen to attend the Court . Nevertheless ...
... say that four acres of land to each dwelling - house would be a perfectly ideal state of sanitation . The growth of London was also discouraged by orders of James I. forbidding country gentlemen to attend the Court . Nevertheless ...
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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.
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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...
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