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...conclusion he said: "You have all heard of those two flowers dear to the aesthete's heart, the rose and the lily. But we do not love them for the reason given by Mr. Gilbert, nor for any vegetable preference, but because they are the most perfect specimens of design - the rose with its leonine beauty, and the lily, the emblem of chastity and purity. Then, why look further for the secret of life, when the secret of life...
Lord Vernon will soon publish the hitherto inedited "Comment on the Divine Comedy" by Benvenuto da Imola. It was the intention of the Dante Society of Cambridge to do this, but it was thought better to allow Lord Vernon to carry out the design of his father who had prepared the manuscript before his death...
...writer concerned himself with facts, so that he might make out a cause for complaint. The Gymnasium is now open on Saturday afternoons as on other days. It is only in the spring, during April, May, and June, that the opposite is the case; and then only with the design of inducing men to take long walks, and be in the open air as much as possible...
Entering a store where he was well acquainted he left an order for the following unique design...
...such action as may be found fitted to the special circumstances, and that irregularity of attendance, unless accompanied by good scholarship, is to be treated and regarded in the same way. No scale of penalties is stated, and no precise line of absences or scholarship is given, the design of the rule being to deal with individuals and not with sharply defined classes, and to deal with them by such flexible methods as are necessary, in distinguishing between cases where the student proves his capacity to act upon his own responsibility, and those where he needs more or less support...