London Bicycle Club Gazette, Volume 2

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1879

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Page 234 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Page 159 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Page 182 - A whole assembly worship thee ! At once they sing, at once they pray, They hear of heaven and learn the way. 2 I have been there, and still would go, 'Tis like a little heaven below : Not all my pleasure and my play, Shall tempt me to forget this day.
Page 10 - Justice, or by the oath of One or more credible witnesses before any Two Justices of the Peace, shall, in addition to any civil action to which he may make himself liable, for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding...
Page 195 - ... mausoleum, and another hour was spent in marching round it, and performing funereal glees. The urn was then borne with much ceremony into the mausoleum, and placed on a pedestal in one of the niches, with this inscription underneath : PADL WHITEHEAD OF TWICKENHAM, ESQE. Ob. 1775. Unhallowed hands, this urn forbear, -No gems, nor orient spoil Lie here concealed ; but what's more rare, A heart that knew no guile.
Page 11 - ... if any person riding any horse or beast, or driving any sort of carriage, shall ride or drive the same furiously so as to endanger the life or limb of any passenger...
Page 194 - ... flaps its wings, stretches its neck, and crows, awakening the echoes of the remotest nooks of the cathedral. The mechanism also sets in motion a complete planetarium, behind which is a perpetual calendar. — The most wonderful feature of this piece of mechanism is that it is calculated to regulate itself and adapt its motions to the revolution of the seasons for a,u almost unlimited number of years.
Page 234 - Rehoboam and all that he did are they not written in the books of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah ? And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
Page 194 - ... time, and still higher is shown the course of the moon through the heavens. The exterior of the clock attracts spectators at all times, but especially at noon. On the first gallery an angel strikes the quarters on a bell which he holds in his hand; higher up is a skeleton, representing time, which strikes the hour of 12, and round it are...
Page 11 - LC held that [t]he broad principle of construction put shortly must be this: What would, in an ordinary sense, be considered to be a carriage (by whatever specific name it might be called) in the contemplation of the Legislature at the time the Act was passed?

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