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... better . If Wardle ma . can assist us fairly often , even the bowling will not be so weak . It has often been said that we can never become a cricketing school , though we may succeed at football . Wishing the latter its merited success ...
... better . If Wardle ma . can assist us fairly often , even the bowling will not be so weak . It has often been said that we can never become a cricketing school , though we may succeed at football . Wishing the latter its merited success ...
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... better than its predecessors . We were also glad to see that the members of Parlia- ment who were present , again very generously promised prizes for the ensuing year . As was evident from the large number of prizes that were given away ...
... better than its predecessors . We were also glad to see that the members of Parlia- ment who were present , again very generously promised prizes for the ensuing year . As was evident from the large number of prizes that were given away ...
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... better heard in consequence , although the effect æsthetically is somewhat less satisfactory . The Head Master , in opening the pro- ceedings , had to lament the absence of the Chairman of the Governors and others who had been expected ...
... better heard in consequence , although the effect æsthetically is somewhat less satisfactory . The Head Master , in opening the pro- ceedings , had to lament the absence of the Chairman of the Governors and others who had been expected ...
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... better if he could have felt a little less dread of his stern father , Harpagon , but as sons are not now quite so respectful towards their parents as in former times , we thank him for recalling the days of old by the exhibition of a ...
... better if he could have felt a little less dread of his stern father , Harpagon , but as sons are not now quite so respectful towards their parents as in former times , we thank him for recalling the days of old by the exhibition of a ...
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... . Yet within are fields Elysian , wondrous walks and stately closes ; civilization progresses favourably , and the use of the telegraph is becoming understood . With a view of rendering this country happier and better 58.
... . Yet within are fields Elysian , wondrous walks and stately closes ; civilization progresses favourably , and the use of the telegraph is becoming understood . With a view of rendering this country happier and better 58.
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ball Bate Baxter Bevington bird boats Bookbinding Booth bowled bowler BOWLING AVERAGES Briggs C. H. D. Sharpe Cambridge Carruthers CHAD'S COLLEGE Christ's College Clementson CONDUCTED BY MEMBERS Cracknell Cricket Dakyns Debating Society Denstone Dickinson Dilworth DILWORTH BEGS Editors Elijah Fenton F. R. Tennant fair Farmer favour FIRE-FLY CONDUCTED Fishwick Football forwards G. B. Green G. E. Meakin G. H. Woodall Glass Insurance Offices goal ground Haden half-backs Henstock HIGH-STREET House June kick Lancashire LARGE ASSORTMENT master match was played Meuricoffre Newcastle NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME Norwich Accident NOVA HIGH SCHOOL obtained Old Boys passed Patten Phillips Poole prizes Pro bono publico race Read Redfern Rose Rugby Football runs Saturday SCHOLA School Stationery Office score scrimmage season Sedoners Silverdale Spivey Staffordshire Strick success Swinton Topham Total Town Trentham Twyford victory W. E. Dowson Wardle wicket fell wkts won the toss Wood Woodforde yards
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Страница 59 - Should decompose the fleshy tertium quid, Leaving our souls to all eternity Amalgamated. Sweet, thy name is Briggs And mine is Johnson. Wherefore should not we Agree to form a Johnsonate of Briggs ? We will. The day, the happy day, is nigh, When Johnson shall with beauteous Briggs combine.
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Страница 33 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's...
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Страница 62 - Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown ! I Richard's body have interred new ; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears, Than from it issued forced drops of blood. Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, Who twice...
Страница 59 - Oh, that thou Wert Carbon, and myself were Hydrogen; We would unite to form olefiant gas, Or common coal, or naphtha — would to heaven That I were Phosphorus, and thou wert Lime! And we of Lime composed a Phosphuret. I'd be content to be Sulphuric Acid, So that thou might be Soda.
Страница 46 - And sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn That wept her bleeding Love, and princely Clare, And Anjou's heroine, and the paler rose, The rival of her crown and of her woes, And either Henry there, The murder'd saint, and the majestic lord That broke the bonds of Rome.
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