Annual Report, 20–22. köide1852 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 47
Page ix
... , & c . On leaving the chair , a vote of thanks was passed to Sir Charles Lemon , for his kindness in presiding , and for his untiring attention to the welfare of the Society . LIST OF BOOKS , & c . Presented to the IX .
... , & c . On leaving the chair , a vote of thanks was passed to Sir Charles Lemon , for his kindness in presiding , and for his untiring attention to the welfare of the Society . LIST OF BOOKS , & c . Presented to the IX .
Page xi
... attention to features which call for comment only from their novelty or their bearing on the financial position of the institution . In adopting the latter alternative , they beg first to congratulate the members on the satisfactory ...
... attention to features which call for comment only from their novelty or their bearing on the financial position of the institution . In adopting the latter alternative , they beg first to congratulate the members on the satisfactory ...
Page xiii
... attention is so much directed to improving the artistic taste of the community by the formation of schools of drawing and design , it is hoped that the effort in this direction which Miss Fox has commenced will not be considered ...
... attention is so much directed to improving the artistic taste of the community by the formation of schools of drawing and design , it is hoped that the effort in this direction which Miss Fox has commenced will not be considered ...
Page xv
... attention to a process for the more expeditious drying of China - clay . Also to a method of boring holes in stone , an improved whim , and the inlaying of serpentine . In the highest class of mechanical skill they refer with pleasure ...
... attention to a process for the more expeditious drying of China - clay . Also to a method of boring holes in stone , an improved whim , and the inlaying of serpentine . In the highest class of mechanical skill they refer with pleasure ...
Page xvii
... attention to the busts of Beethoven and Kossuth , by Mr. Burnard , whose works have on so many previous occasions graced our Hall . In the water - colour department , the piece entitled " Sun - set in the Bay of Biscay , " and a Book of ...
... attention to the busts of Beethoven and Kossuth , by Mr. Burnard , whose works have on so many previous occasions graced our Hall . In the water - colour department , the piece entitled " Sun - set in the Bay of Biscay , " and a Book of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alfred Fox attached barley Bart birds Budock bottom Budock church Budock lane Bullmore's Camborne Capt Carne Caroline Fox Carrying spawn Charles Fox Charles Lemon China-clay China-stone clay Cocks College wood colour committee common corn Cornish Cornwall Devonport DISTRICT drawings eggs Enys exhibition Falmouth feet felspar field formed Fowey garden granite Gwyllyn-vase Hedge HELSTON improved inches insects Jago James JAMES GOODFELLOW John kaolin larvæ Linn Liskeard marsh means miners mines Miss observations old Penryn road Panscoth lane Pennance placed plentiful Polytechnic Society pool premium Price of wheat prize value Punnett quantity R. W. Fox rain rare Redruth Richard Richard Davey rocks Rogers Rundell scarce second bronze medal Selley's shaft silver medal small prize specimens stone Sulivan surface Swanpool temperature Trescobeas farm Tresidder Trevethan Treviskey Truro Tweedy uncommon ventilation Vigurs vulgaris Wheal Williams
Popular passages
Page 14 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram : once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 15 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 15 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Page 15 - And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 34 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Page 29 - ... green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa : he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure. Even the beings selected for his prey are poetical, beautiful, and transient.
Page 25 - So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet.
Page 29 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Page 58 - I have counted above 10,000,000), so subtile (they are scarcely visible to the naked eye, and often resemble thin smoke), so light (raised, perhaps, by evaporation into the atmosphere), and are dispersed in so many ways (by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &c.), that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded.
Page 56 - May at times, when the wild products of the field are nearly consumed, the ivy ripens its berries, and...