A History of the Royal Society of Arts

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J. Murray, 1913 - 558 psl.

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230 psl. - This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
515 psl. - for the discovery and establishment of the antiseptic method of treating wounds and injuries, by which not only has the art of surgery been greatly promoted and human life saved in all parts of the world, but extensive industries have been created for the supply of materials for carrying the treatment into effect.
66 psl. - An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian Collection of MSS., and for providing one general repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said Collection, and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto.
46 psl. - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
24 psl. - Goldsmith, instead of making an apology for his conduct, either from misinformation or misconception, bluntly replied : 'In truth he had spoken his mind, and believed what he said was very right.
515 psl. - In 1893, to Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., FRS, and Sir Henry Gilbert, Ph.D., FRS, "for their joint services to scientific agriculture, and notably for the researches which, throughout a period of fifty years, have been carried on by them at the Experimental Farm. Rothamsted.
506 psl. - ... us. It continued, by the importation of slaves from Africa, in spite of colonial resistance, for a period of more than a century and a half, and it may require an equal or longer lapse of time before our country is entirely rid of the evil. And, in the meantime, moderation, prudence, and discretion, among' ourselves, and the blessings of Providence, may be all necessary to accomplish our ultimate deliverance from it.
516 psl. - In 1900, to Henry Wilde, FRS, " for the discovery and practical demonstration of the indefinite increase of the magnetic and electric forces from quantities indefinitely small, a discovery now used in all dynamo machines ; and for its application to the production of the electric search-light, and to the electro-deposition of metals from their solutions.
15 psl. - Public, it was resolved to bestow Premiums on a certain number of Boys or Girls under the Age of Sixteen, who shall produce the best Pieces of Drawing, and Show themselves most capable, when properly examined.
iv psl. - ... carmina picturas, et daedala signa polire, usus et impigrae simul experientia mentis paulatim docuit pedetemptim progredientis. sic unumquicquid paulatim protrahit aetas in medium ratioque in luminis erigit oras. 1455 namque alid ex alio clarescere corde videbant, artibus ad summum donee venere cacumen.

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