Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, Količina 4

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The Society, 1901
List of members in each volume.
 

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Stran 11 - Every question at a meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on that question, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Stran 62 - Newstead and I stand or fall together. I have now lived on the spot, I have fixed my heart upon it, and no pressure, present or future, shall induce me to barter the last vestige of our inheritance. I have that pride within me which will enable me to support difficulties. I can endure privations ; but could I obtain in exchange for Newstead Abbey the first fortune in the country, I would reject the proposition.
Stran 9 - ... General Meeting in each year, elect a Chairman, from their own body, to preside at their meetings, for the ensuing year. They shall make all such By-Laws for the internal management of the Museum premises as they shall think necessary. The Council shall meet not less than four times a year. 5. — The President shall take the chair at all meetings of the Society, or in his absence the senior Vice-President or Member of Council, and have an original and casting vote on all questions before the...
Stran 3 - HERE would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot Which I have long mark'd out to lay my bones in ; Tir'd out and wearied with the riotous world, Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred.
Stran 31 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Stran 57 - In 1774 he settled in London, and rented a portion of Schomberg House, Pall Mall; from this period his reputation was such that he was considered at the same time the rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds in portrait, and of Wilson in landscape, painting. He was one of the original members of the Royal Academy, and sent pictures to its exhibitions from the commencement in 1769, but ceased to contribute after 1783. He exhibited altogether ninetysix works at the Academy.
Stran 83 - In cuius rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium, vicesimo tercio die Maii anno regni nostri nono.
Stran 26 - June 4th, 1801, with a constitution so shattered that he died of typhus fever at Hackney, on September 9th following, aged 45 years. He was interred at Richmond, where also are interred his father, the Rev. George Wakefield, for eighteen years rector of St. Nicholas's, Nottingham, and nine years incumbent of Kingston and Richmond, who died February 10th, 1776, aged 56 years, and his (Gilbert's) brother, the Rev. Thomas Wakefield, thirty years incumbent of Richmond, who died November 26th, 1806. The...
Stran 12 - Junius, among others, bitterly attacked him; and during the Gordon riots of 1780, his house, with all his valuable books and manuscripts, was...

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