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... held in the Divinity School will excuse its intru- sion here . It so happened that the City or Town Hall was then being built , but not finished ; there was then no County Hall , the Assizes being regularly held in the Town Hall . On ...
... held in the Divinity School will excuse its intru- sion here . It so happened that the City or Town Hall was then being built , but not finished ; there was then no County Hall , the Assizes being regularly held in the Town Hall . On ...
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... held the Deanery of Canterbury with the Presidency of Magdalen . At Norwich . Cathedral he and Dean Lloyd soon collected round them a Choir of Oxford and chiefly Magdalen men as Minor- Canons ; some of their names , such as Millard ...
... held the Deanery of Canterbury with the Presidency of Magdalen . At Norwich . Cathedral he and Dean Lloyd soon collected round them a Choir of Oxford and chiefly Magdalen men as Minor- Canons ; some of their names , such as Millard ...
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... held for three successive days for reciting prize - com- positions and complimentary verses1 ( some of them very edifying , no doubt , to the crowded assemblage , in Greek , Hebrew , & c . ! ) , and for conferring Honorary Degrees to ...
... held for three successive days for reciting prize - com- positions and complimentary verses1 ( some of them very edifying , no doubt , to the crowded assemblage , in Greek , Hebrew , & c . ! ) , and for conferring Honorary Degrees to ...
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... held this year in the Radcliffe Library1 , —the Sheldonian Theatre being not only under repair , but actually and completely unroofed . A notion had got into people's heads , that the roof ( at that time one of the largest unsupported ...
... held this year in the Radcliffe Library1 , —the Sheldonian Theatre being not only under repair , but actually and completely unroofed . A notion had got into people's heads , that the roof ( at that time one of the largest unsupported ...
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... held by the two Emperors on a raft on the river Niemen ! 2 Here again ' self ' crops up ; for I have to confess ( what I cannot but recollect ' ) that in my anxiety to get all examinations over while yet a Bachelor ( in both senses ) ...
... held by the two Emperors on a raft on the river Niemen ! 2 Here again ' self ' crops up ; for I have to confess ( what I cannot but recollect ' ) that in my anxiety to get all examinations over while yet a Bachelor ( in both senses ) ...
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