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A. C. Gifford Alton Towers Ashton Athens Averill ball Bishop Bowcock bowled BOWLING ANALYSIS Brown max Burton Byes Captain Chad's College Chapel Chaplain Church Committee Cricket Denstone Denstonian Derby Wanderers dormitory Doveridge E. A. Thelwall E. P. Coleridge Editor Edwardes England F. H. Masfen Fisher FLAT RACE Football FORM forward Froggatt Furley G. R. Bell goal Greek ground H. F. B. Moore Haworth India Jackson Keeling kicked Lallemand Leek Leg Byes Magdalen College School Masfen max masters match was played meeting Museum Newcastle Norton Oakden old boys Oswald Parthenon President prizes proposed Provost race remarks Rocester School score scrummages Sherlock side Smith soon speech Stephenson Stretton Thomas thought Tidy tonian touchdown Tucker Tutbury Uttoxeter VIth vivisection W. A. Bland W. H. C. Dunkerley W. M. Heather W. T. Hodge W. W. Watts Ward Wardle wicket Wilkinson
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Page 107 - men, that Gilbert, Bishop of London, is excommunicated ' by Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Page 92 - As a restorative she made use of a soup of frogs ; and some of these animals, skinned tor the purpose, happened to lie upon a table in her husband's laboratory, upon which was placed an electrical machine. One of the assistants in his experiments chanced carelessly to bring the point of a scalpel near the crural nerves of a frog lying not far from the conductor. Instantly the muscles of the limb were agitated with strong convulsions. Madame Galvani, a woman of quick understanding and a scientific...
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Page 54 - Lindisfarne — that is to say, the Mother Church, the religious capital of the north of England and south of Scotland, the residence of the first sixteen bishops of Northumbria, the sanctuary and monastic citadel of the whole country round — the lona of the Anglo-Saxons.
Page 65 - ... much striking beauty, so distinct a type, so vast a volume of history, so great a pageant of immortal memories. There is, in fact, no building on earth which can sustain the burden of such greatness, and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and must be disappointing. When the traveller reflects how all the Old World's culture culminated in Greece— all Greece in Athens— all Athens in its Acropolis— all the Acropolis in the Parthenon...
Page 48 - ... respect, but of reverence to those who, without ability, were distinguished for high principle and industry. " If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly,, truly, and zealously cultivated.
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