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  • The victory is not looked upon as 'Puseyite'; it is a victory of the masters over the Hebdomadal board, and as such a very important one.

    The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

  • There seems to have been a tremendous shindy in the Hebdomadal board about certain persons who were proposed; and I am told that

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • To avoid Nicknames and Witticisms, we call ourselves The Hebdomadal Meeting: Our President continues for a Year at least, and sometimes four or five: We are all Grave,

    Spectator, April 19, 1711 1711

  • Hebdomadal Meeting: _ Our President continues for a Year at least, and sometimes four or five: We are all Grave, Serious, Designing Men, in our Way: We think it our Duty, as far as in us lies, to take care the

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • There have arose in this University (long since you left us without saying any thing) several of these inferior Hebdomadal

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • 'Hebdomadal Meeting', all 'Grave, Serious, Designing Men in their Way' have a confused notion in 1711 of the Methuen Treaty of 1703 as 'the Act for importing French wines,' with which they are much offended.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • In 1845, when I had already given up the contest for four years, and my part in it had passed into the hands of others, then some of those who were prominent against me in 1841, feeling (what they had not felt in 1841) the danger of driving a number of my followers to Rome, and joined by younger friends who had come into University importance since 1841 and felt kindly towards me, adopted a course more consistent with their principles, and proceeded to shield from the zeal of the Hebdomadal

    Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

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