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Page 32 - Thy kingdom, 0 Christ, is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations
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Page 5 - Architects was established in 1834 for the purpose of providing a professional institute for the general advancement of civil architecture and for promoting and facilitating the acquirement of the knowledge of the various Arts and Sciences connected therewith.
Page 285 - working class " includes mechanics, artisans, labourers, and others working for wages ; hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without employing 'others, except members of their own family, and persons other than domestic servants whose income in any case does not exceed an average of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such persons who may be residing with them.
Page 396 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 285 - Council be erected on the side of any such street so that the height of such building shall exceed the distance of the front or nearest external wall of such building from the opposite side of such street.
Page 106 - means : — (a.) A wall forming part of a building and being used or constructed to be used in any part of the height or length of such wall for separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners or occupied or constructed or adapted to be occupied by different persons...
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