Fifty years of public work of sir Henry Cole ... accounted for in his deeds, speeches and writings [ed. by A S. and H.L. Cole].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 DOCKS Duke 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 Messrs mittee Music NATIONAL OF 1862 objects obtained Palace paper Paris Exhibition Parliament Patent Post Office PRACTICAL ART present President Prince Albert Prince Consort Prince's printed proposed Public Records purchase Queen Railway 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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Pagina 18 - 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...
Pagina 186 - The opponents of the Exhibition work with might and main to throw all the old women into panic and to drive myself . crazy. The strangers, they give out, are certain to commence a thorough revolution here, to murder Victoria and myself, and to proclaim the Red Republic in England; the plague is certain to ensue from the confluence of such vast multitudes, and to swallow up those whom the increased price of everything has not already swept away. For all this I am to be responsible, and against all...
Pagina 154 - 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...
Pagina 106 - 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.
Pagina 179 - God save the Queen" had been sung, and at the head of the commissioners, a curious assemblage of political and distinguished men, read me the report, which is a long one, and to which I read a short answer; after which the Archbishop of Canterbury offered up a short and appropriate prayer, followed by the "Hallelujah Chorus," during which the Chinese mandarin came forward and made his obeisance.
Pagina 178 - Peace-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. God bless my dearest Albert ! God bless my dearest country, which has shown itself so great to-day ! One felt so grateful to the great God, who seemed to pervade all and to bless all...
Pagina 218 - 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 ! "
Pagina 84 - 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.
Pagina 197 - used up" by the Exhibition. I don't say "there is nothing in it" — there's too much. I have only been twice; so many things bewildered me. I have a natural horror of sights, and the fusion of so many sights in one has not decreased it. I am not sure that I have seen anything but the fountain and perhaps the Amazon. It is a dreadful thing to be obliged to be false, but when anyone says, "Have you seen ?
Pagina 180 - Committee, etc., 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 enthusiastic, the order perfect.