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Page 350 - He hath erected, according to his ability, some four hackney coaches, put his men in a livery, and appointed them to stand at the May-Pole in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all day they may be had.
Page 17 - elementary school " means a school or department of a school at which elementary education is the principal part of the education there given, and does not include any school or department of a school at which the ordinary payments in respect of the instruction, from each scholar, exceed ninepence a week.
Page 350 - Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down, that they and others are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the waterside. Everybody is much pleased with it. For whereas before coaches could not be had but at great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper.
Page 134 - This philosophical supper caused much mirth amongst us, and exceedingly pleased all the company. I sent a glass of the jelly to my wife, to the reproach of all that the ladies ever made of their best hartshorn.
Page 135 - ... its resistance to acids. He proposed, therefore, to use stronger solutions, and thus to approach to the action of long periods of time. He tried a few specimens in this way, and with most promising results.
Page 356 - Bodkin, by a gentleman who does not wish his name to appear, for promoting, by means of prizes or otherwise, economy in the use of coal for domestic purposes, the Council have decided to offer the following prizes: — (i).
Page 287 - ... of perfection hitherto unapproached, to the great advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce." In 1869, to Baron Justus von Liebig, Associate of the Institute of France, For.
Page 335 - In 1865, to his Imperial Majesty, Napoleon III., " for distinguished merit in promoting, in many ways, by his personal exertions, the international progress of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, the proofs of which are afforded by his judicious patronage of Art, his enlightened commercial policy, and especially by the abolition of passports in favour of British subjects.
Page 276 - I hold very strongly, that, as our administration exhibits European justice, order, love of law, energy and honour, so our buildings ought to hold up a high standard of European art. They ought to be European, both as a rallying-point for ourselves, and as raising a distinctive mark of our presence, always to be beheld by the natives of the country, (p.