The Meteor. Ed. by members of Rugby school
Author: Rugby sch
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 588
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 588
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Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Published: 2012-05-09
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781231119051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... Was he not sent to Egypt a month ago? and behold, whilst General Gordon was off at three hours' notice, he is still lingering in what the author of "John Bull and his Island" would certainly fairly point to as an instance of how perfidious Albion annexes. Indeed, except for the glorious sunrises and sunsets, anyone might believe that he was here in England--English tail coats, English mashers, English lawn tennis, English grumblers, and that most glorious of English products, brown bread, are seen and advertised all about the place; English bishops seem holding a congress here; English clergy are ticketed high, low, and broad, as in our own happy native isle, and English doctors refuse to meet one another with happy British independence. Truly some future D'Israeli may suggest to future Majesty to add the title of Sultana of Cannes to that of Empress of India. But I am wandering from the point, my mission is, wherever I go, I take it, to advertise Rugby, to look out for Rugby's interests, to hear what is said of Rugby. Fortunately, Rugby is well represented here: as I look out of my window I see the oranges glistening amid their green leaves in the gardens of Lord Wolverton, who rests from his duties as whip and his diversions in the Dorset hunt here in the choicest of Cannes villas, and is never tired of relating to Rugbeians his experiences in old flogging days; the Bishop of Gibraltar, C. W. Sandford, of cricketing fame, is taking a short rest before starting on his next missionary journey, this time Odessa and Kief; and the other morning I was startled by hearing through the thin wall of my room the sound of the voice of an old Editor of your periodical, which recalled many discussions in old Blakite days as to how to pronounce the word "...
Author: Peter Bingham Hinchliff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780198263869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn on a Greek island of middle class but impoverished parents Temple was educated at Balliol on a scholarship, and later became headmaster of Rugby, before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury at the age of 76 in 1897. This is a biography of his life.
Author: T. Bose
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 0774844833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
Author: Nicky Horne
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780860514046
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 618
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 1054
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 712
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 616
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