Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Volume 58Society, 1909 - Arts |
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Page 488 - On entering the house, there was nothing at first sight to remind one of the farm : — a spacious hall, paved with black and white marble, — at one extremity a very handsome drawing-room...
Page 265 - The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals; but one of them only is employed in supporting domestic industry.
Page 269 - I found, on taking possession of my new quarters, that the house already contained one single inmate, a poor, friendless child, apparently ten years old; but she seemed hungerbitten ; and sufferings of that sort often make children look older than they are. From this forlorn child I learned, that she had slept and lived there alone, for some time before I came...
Page 269 - ... a small piece of rug, and some fragments of other articles, which added a little to our warmth. The poor child crept close to me for warmth, and for security against her ghostly enemies. When I was not more than usually ill, I took her into my arms, so that in general she was tolerably warm, and often slept when I could not...
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Page 428 - for his discovery ot the method of obtaining colouring matter from coal tar, a discovery which led to the establishment of a new and important industry, and to the utilisation of large quantities of a previously worthless material.
Page 83 - Candidates, who must be under thirty-five years of age, must apply on a special form before the end of February to the secretary of the Institute. " The object of this scheme of scholarships is not to facilitate ordinary collegiate studies, but to enable students who have passed through a college curriculum or have been trained in industrial establishments, to conduct researches in the metallurgy of iron...
Page 358 - Mean time, even in a temporal point of view, you are going from what bids fair, I fear, to deserve the name of a City of Destruction. The state of Europe is indeed fearful ; and that of England, I verily think, worst of all. What is coming, none can foresee, but every symptom is alarming ; above all, the extraordinary dearth of men professing to act in the fear of God, and not being fanatics ; as parties, the High Churchmen, the...