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Page 234 - Society in Dublin, for maintaining, educating, and apprenticing the orphans and children of soldiers in Ireland...
Page 225 - ... for their pupils; who were still, however, boarded by the House of Industry. In this way the school was kept alive, and public interest extended, and funds collected and husbanded, while the pupils made considerable progress in spite of every difficulty, until the time arrived when Mr. Kenniburgh, the Edinburgh teacher, became released from his engagement, and offered, as he had promised before, to teach a Master for this country, if remunerated. "The committee selected Mr. Joseph Humphreys,...
Page 42 - The privilege of reading here is granted to Graduates upon taking the library oath, and to strangers who have been introduced to the Provost and Senior Fellows, on their taking the same oath.* On the south side of the Library is the Fellows...
Page 217 - This Society shall be' known by the name of The American Bible Society, of which the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment.
Page 275 - Bench. . Master of the Rolls. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif of the said Courts, according to Seniority.
Page 146 - Stella,' under which she is celebrated in the writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of this Cathedral.
Page 83 - ... in depth, and exhibits four decorated fronts, answering almost directly to the four cardinal points of the compass — the south being the principal front. In the interior are two courts, divided from each other by the centre pile, which is one hundred feet broad, and runs from north to south the whole depth of the building. The south, or sea front, is composed of pavilions at each end, joined by arcades, and united to the centre. It is finished in the Doric order, with an entablature, and bold...
Page 33 - University," under the style and title of the " College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity near Dublin, founded by Queen Elizabeth.
Page 147 - Hujus Ecclesiae Cathedralis Decani, Ubi saeva indignatio Ulterius Cor lacerare nequit. Abi Viator Et imitare, si poteris, Strenuum pro virili Libertatis Vindicatorem Obiit 19° Die Mensis Octobris AD 1745 Anno Aetatis 78.
Page 35 - Sunday — and the election of junior Fellows and Scholars can be held only on Trinity Monday. The candidates are examined publicly in Logic and Metaphysics, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Morality, History, Chronology, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin ; on the fourth day they are employed in Latin and English composition. The examination is held in the Theatre of the University on the four days immediately preceding Trinity Sunday, and the questions and answers are delivered in Latin. It is necessary...