Fifty Years of Public Work of Sir Henry Cole, K. C. B., Accounted for in His Deeds, Speeches and Writings, 第 1 巻G. Bell, 1884 |
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adopted afterwards appointed arrangements Art Department ART MANU ART MANUFACTURES bition Board of Trade British broad gauge building Captain Fowke Charles Buller classes Cobden Cole collection Commis Committee Council decoration Diary Dilke Duke erected Executive Exhi EXHIBITION A.D. EXHIBITION OF 1851 exhibitors FACTURES father favour Gallery Government Grimsby Guarantee Fund Henry Cole House of Commons instruction International Exhibition John July KENSING letter London Lord Granville Lord Langdale Majesty Majesty's Commissioners Manchester Marlborough House meeting ment Messrs mittee Music NATIONAL OF 1862 objects obtained Palace paper Paris Exhibition Parliament Patent Post Office present President Prince Albert Prince Consort Prince's printed prizes proposed Public Records purchase Queen Reform Rowland Hill Royal Albert Hall Royal Highness School of Design Science and Art Secretary SINGTON MUSEUM sioners Society of Arts SOUTH KEN South Kensington Museum stamps tion Training School Treasury UNIFORM PENNY POSTAGE
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18 ページ - Who knows the inscrutable design? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave? We bow to Heaven that will'd it so, That darkly rules the fate of all. That sends the respite or the blow, That's free to give, or to recall.
296 ページ - I have the honour to be, my dear Sir, Your very faithful, '• ' DANIEL O'CONXELL. "
178 ページ - Festival,' which united the industry of all nations of the earth, — all this was moving indeed, and it was and is a day to live for ever.
154 ページ - Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment. AND...
106 ページ - The history of the world records no event comparable, in its promotion of human industry, with that of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851.
180 ページ - Her Majesty commands me to declare this Exhibition open," — which was followed by a flourish of trumpets and immense cheering. All the Commissioners, the Executive Committee, &c., who worked so hard and to whom such immense praise is due, seemed truly happy, and no one more so than Paxton, who may be justly proud; he rose from being a common gardener's boy. Everybody was astonished and delighted, Sir George Grey [Home Secretary] in tears. ' The return was equally satisfactory, — the crowd most...
106 ページ - O1 industry and invention an unparalleled profusion. The thing /-" still remaining to be done is to effect the combination of the two, to wed high art with mechanical skill.
218 ページ - Diary continues, this beautiful city, with its broad streets and lofty houses, ' decorated in the most tasteful manner possible, with banners, flags, arches, flowers, inscriptions, and finally illuminations, full of people, lined with troops, National Guards, and troops of the Line and Chasseurs d'Afrique, beautifully kept, and most enthusiastic ! And yet this gives but a faint notion of this triumph, as it was. There were endless cries of " Vive la Reine d'Angleterre ! " " Vive UEmpereur ! "
84 ページ - I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,* If birds confabulate or no ; 'Tis clear, that they were always able To hold discourse, at least in fable ; And e'en the child, who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must have a most uncommon skull.
165 ページ - I cannot conceal from you that we are on the point of having to abandon the Exhibition altogether. We have announced our intention to do so, if on the day the vast building ought to be begun the site is taken from us.