The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn

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Macmillan and Company, 1860 - 433 pages
 

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Page 20 - PLANE CO-ORDINATE GEOMETRY, as applied to the Straight Line and the Conic Sections. With numerous Examples.
Page 4 - Volunteer's Scrap Book. By the Author of "The Cambridge Scrap Book." Crown 4to. 7s. 6d. WAGNER. — Memoir of the Rev. George Wagner, late of St. Stephen's, Brighton. By JN SIMPKINSON, MA Third and Cheaper Edition.
Page 18 - Prize Essay for 1877. 8vC. &r. 6d. SMITH— Works by the Rev. BARNARD SMITH, MA, Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA, in their Principles and Application ; with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the BA Degree.
Page 401 - Think of you and I taking the place we are entitled to by birth and education, in the splendid society of that noble island. Don't let me hear all that balderdash about the founding of new empires. Empires take too long in growing for me. What honours, what society, has this little colony to give, compared to those open to a fourth-rate gentleman in England ? I want to be a real Englishman, not half a one. I want to throw in my lot heart and hand with the greatest nation in the world. I don't want...
Page 9 - With an Introduction, explanatory of his position in the Church, with reference to the Parties which divide it. 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, £1 11s.
Page 10 - BY JOHN HAMILTON, Esq. (of St. Ernan's,) MA, St. John's College, Cambridge. On Truth and Error : Thoughts, in Prose and Verse, on the Principles of Truth, and the Causes and Effects of Error. Crown 8vo.
Page 8 - DR. CHAMBERS, FJ STEPHEN, ESQ. and TOM TAYLOR, ESQ. CONTENTS : — Plan of Female Colleges — The College and the Hospital — The Country Parish — Overwork and Anxiety — Dispensaries — District Visiting — Influence of Occupation on Health — Law as it affects the Poor — Everyday Work of Ladies — Teaching by Words — Sanitary Law — Workhouse Visiting. " We scarcely know a volume containing more sterling good acme, or a finer expression of modern intelligence on social subjects" —...
Page 8 - MORNING POST. BY THE RIGHT REV. JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO, DD, Lord Bishop of Natal, formerty Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 1 . The Colony of Natal. A Journal of Ten Weeks' Tour of Visitation among the Colonists and Zulu Kaffirs of Natal.
Page 7 - Deserve to be considered the most remarkable proofs of the Author's indomitable energy and power of concentration" — EDINBURGH REVIEW. 4. Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy. Edited from the Author's MSS., with Notes, by WILLIAM HEPWORTH THOMPSON, MA, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. 2 vols. 8vo., £1 5*.
Page 135 - A NEW heaven and a new earth ! Tier beyond tier, height above height, the great wooded ranges go rolling away westward, till on the lofty sky-line they are crowned with a gleam of everlasting snow. To the eastward they sink down, breaking into isolated...

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