American Journal of Numismatics, Volumes 41-42American Numismatic and Archæological Society, 1907 |
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Page 103 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 31 - With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
Page 60 - Couthouy addressed the meeting on the subject of coral formations and oceanic temperatures, and offered the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to...
Page 49 - ... degrees towardes the line. In which height it pleased God to send us into a faire and good Bay, with a good winde to enter the same.
Page 13 - a faire and good bay," which may have been that of San Francisco ; he took possession of the country in the name of Queen Elizabeth, setting up a post with that announcement.
Page 7 - The edifice thus reared might not inaptly be compared to the gorgeous palace erected by Potemkin, that princely barbarian of Russia, to surprise and please his imperial mistress : huge blocks of ice were piled one upon another ; Ionic pillars, of chastest workmanship, in ice, formed a noble portico ; and a dome, of the same material, shone in the sun, which had just strength enough to gild, but not to melt it.
Page 22 - It was moved, and carried, that the thanks of the Society be tendered to Mrs.
Page 52 - God whom we did serue, and whom they ought to worship, was aboue; beseeching God, if it were his good pleasure, to open by some meanes their blinded eyes, that they might in due time be called to the knowledge of him, the true and euerliuing God, and of Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, the saluation of the Gentiles.
Page 13 - Of all the medals of the British series there is, perhaps, none of greater interest to the Englishspeaking people on both sides of the Atlantic than that commemorating the voyage of Sir Francis Drake round the world, which he completed in the year 1580. This medal is a thin circular plate of silver, nearly three (2.8) inches in diameter, stamped in imitation of engraving, showing on each of its two opposite sides an outline map, one of the Eastern and the other of the Western Hemisphere, designed...