Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 67, Part 1897J. Murray, 1898 |
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Page lxxxvii - To the QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it please your Majesty, — We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects...
Page 549 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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