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Page 252 - A History of the College from its Foundation ; (2) An Account and History of its Buildings ; (3) Notices of the Connection of the College with any Important Social or Religious Events ; (4) A List of the Chief Benefactions made to the College ; (5) Some Particulars of the Contents of the College Library ; (6) An Account of the College Plate, Windows, and other Accessories ; (7) A Chapter upon the best known, and other notable but less well-known Members of the College. Each volume...
Page 157 - ... justify this preference. But cereals and other products are cultivated with profit, and may become in time an element of great value in the wealth of the country. Coffee. The production of coffee in Guatemala has been constantly increasing. The plantations improve and increase in number every year and will no doubt continue to do so as long as the quality of the coffee is acknowledged to be superior, and the great demand for it maintained. The following table shows the production of coffee in...
Page 146 - Library, has given him a very great character, to which you may be pleased to have recourse ; whilst in the mean time I tell you, that he is a person of singular modesty, good nature, and uncommon industry. He lives a retired life, generally three or four miles from Oxford, is not at all ambitious of preferment or honour, and what he does is purely out of love to the good of learning and his country.
Page 213 - Augustus at Rome was for building renowned And of marble he left what of brick he had found; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master, He finds us all brick and leaves us all plaster.
Page 252 - Chapter upon the best known, and other notable but less well-known Members of the College. Each volume will be produced in crown octavo, in a good clear type, and will contain from 200 to 250 pages (except two or three volumes, which will be thicker). The illustrations will consist of full-page plates, containing reproductions of old views of the Colleges and modern views of the buildings, grounds, &c. The two Series will extend over a period of about two years, and no particular order will be observed...