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LEEDS PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY

... information upon a subject on which the learned Professor, fromu Isis distinguished scientific attainments, was entitled to speak with authority. In introtducing his lec- tLue, he said he could not but be highly flattered with the invitation lie received ...

SONG OF THE PRIVATEER

... that occasion, with coiloquisl ease, the editor of Tie Table Talk must again be quoted. You came to a man, lie says, speaking of Coleridge, wbo had travelled in many comntries and in critical times; who had seen and felt the world in most of its ...

LEEDS PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY

... language, rather than to study the concrete language itself. Mr. Barry then proceeded, with great clearness and elaboration, to speak of the subjective and objective value of the study ot language upon the human mind, and of the analytical and synthetical processes ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... Nought less will we accept: No go ! Non possmus ! Non, poseumus ! Yet, Holy Father, look a-head, What Pope, excuse me speaking plain, Will have the right, when you are dead, Against the people's will to reign? Who will create that Pope a King ?) Still ...

FASHIONS FOR MARCH

... praise can be accorded to any of the other myriad preparations familiar to the equipage of the toilet-table. Dr. Reveil sayes, speaking of the danger arising from the unchecked sane of deleterious compounds by perfumers, -I need not state that arsenic, the ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... such a precious long one, that we confess we have nearly lost all patience in waiting. WHO'S DAT- KENOCEKIN AT THE DOOR?- Speaking of the new Ministry in Italy, the Patric says the following:- Signor Ratzisi hsas decided to take the initiat- tive in all ...

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... STATISTICS OF HUMAN LIFE.-The total number of human beings on earth is now computed in round num- bers at 1,000,000,000. They speak 3,064 now known tongues, and in which upwards of 1,100 religions or creeds are preached. The average age of life is 33-l years ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... rich colours of the exhibitors' stalli fill the building with a glow of tints, and. when these become a background, so to speak, to a Procession of nearly F a, thousand persons, all in robes of state, uniform, or Court- costume, the spectacile - will ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... occupied by the 400 instrumentalists by whom MM. Meyerbeer, Amber, and. Steridale Bennett's compositions will be exe- cuted. Speaking generally, we may at once say that the ait to which these illu}strious and distinguished names belong will be illustrated ...

EXHIBITION BANQUET AT THE MANSION HOUSE

... i want of mleans that 'prevented our carrying out our designs. 'As toJ the inside' of 'the building, I shall bhe loth -to speak .when so many will be able 'to. judge. for themselves I inr a very few days. As to, the architecture and -ornanen- 'trtion ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... EGGs OF THE PYTHONESS.- Eggseunt Orwnaes. THE WORLD'S FAmR.-It's not true (says a c confinred cynsic), for generally speaking the world's ex I, tremely unfair. . HOW. TO MAKE A .PERFECT BEAST OF YOURSELP. ,. -We have been told of a lawyer's clerk ...

OPENING OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... we will, call it a holiday, a festival, a joyful occa- sioni, a national trinunpil, that empty throne tells a sajd talc-it speaks of death in n the midst of life, of sorrow in the nidst of joy, of a tomb instead ni a l throne. Vho, at such a moinenit cannot ...