Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Personal Remembrances of Sir Frederick Pollock...
...Sir Isaac Newton was the first to observe the effect produced by a prism on light but was opposed in his theories by Goethe...
Light has energy; is, in fact, a form of energy. After Sir Isaac Newton's discovery the subject was not touched for some time. When it was taken up again the spectroscope was invented...
...doubts and questions which have been floating in many of our brains in regard to the effect of too much learning on the fair sex. The story is well told but we wish that some of the incongruities which mar its effect had been avoided. The "Religio Medici of Sir Thomas Browne" is a short sketch of the character and opinions of a strange figure of the 16th century as they are recorded in his own writings. The style and language of the sketch are excellent...
...property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London. Communications were, therefore, opened with the present authorities of the Hospital, by whom they were very kindly received, and a thorough search of the very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine's. The result, now first made public, was the bringing to light of the original counterpart lease from the hospital to 'John Harvard, Clerke, and Thomas Harvard, Citizen and Cloth worker of London,' of certain tenements in the parish of Allhallows, Barking...