Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 41

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Page 43 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 4 - The COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several works being alone responsible for the same.
Page 43 - For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.
Page 18 - 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 12 - President shall not be eligible for re-election. 12. Each Annual Meeting shall appoint a local Treasurer and Secretary, who, with power to add to their number any Members of the Association, shall be a local Committee to assist in making such local arrangements as may be desirable. 13. In the intervals of the Annual Meetings, the affairs of the Association shall be managed by a Council, which shall consist exclusively of the following Members of the Association...
Page 144 - He had, in the outward man, a good presence, in a handsome and well- compacted person; a strong natural wit, and a better judgment, with a bold and plausible tongue, whereby he could set out his parts to the best advantage...
Page 44 - IN the old days of awe and keen-eyed wonder, The Poet's song with blood-warm truth was rife ; He saw the mysteries which circle under The outward shell and skin of daily life. Nothing to him were fleeting time and fashion, His soul was led by the eternal law ; There was in him no hope of fame, no passion, But with calm, godlike eyes he only saw. He did not...
Page 176 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Page 125 - That the right of election for this borough is in the freehold tenants, holding by burgage tenure, and paying threepence per annum, or more ancient burgage rent, to the lord of the said borough, and in them only.
Page 37 - ... you list to here Moralitee, and vertuous matere, And than that ye wol yeve me audience, I wold ful fain at Cristes reverence Don you plesance leful, as I can. But trusteth wel, I am a sotherne man, I cannot geste, rom, ram, ruf, by my letter, And, God wote, rime hold I but litel better. And therfore if you list, I wol not glose, I wol you tell a litel tale in prose...

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