The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith, Volume 4H. Milford, 1922 - Great Britain |
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... success of a low - priced weekly publication . Accord- ingly the first number of ' Chambers's Edin- burgh Journal ' was issued on 4 Feb. 1832 . The price was 1d . per weekly part . The success of the venture was at once assured by a ...
... success of a low - priced weekly publication . Accord- ingly the first number of ' Chambers's Edin- burgh Journal ' was issued on 4 Feb. 1832 . The price was 1d . per weekly part . The success of the venture was at once assured by a ...
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... success of the firm as a financial undertaking was chiefly due . He had no special literary faculty , but his writings exhibit strong com- mon sense , and he knew how to make a sub- ject interesting . It is , however , not as the ...
... success of the firm as a financial undertaking was chiefly due . He had no special literary faculty , but his writings exhibit strong com- mon sense , and he knew how to make a sub- ject interesting . It is , however , not as the ...
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... success that he and Buckingham were competent to carry on Scraping together a certain sum of money by means of privy ... successful . When his second parliament met on 6 Feb. 1626 , it appeared that he had made all the chief speakers of ...
... success that he and Buckingham were competent to carry on Scraping together a certain sum of money by means of privy ... successful . When his second parliament met on 6 Feb. 1626 , it appeared that he had made all the chief speakers of ...
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... success , and in order to avoid further conflict and to obtain his supply he on 7 March cancelled the decla- ration ( CHRISTIE , ii . 123-34 , correcting Bur- net ) . The Test Act was then passed and the supply granted . On 29 March ...
... success , and in order to avoid further conflict and to obtain his supply he on 7 March cancelled the decla- ration ( CHRISTIE , ii . 123-34 , correcting Bur- net ) . The Test Act was then passed and the supply granted . On 29 March ...
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... success was probably injurious to him as a physician by encouraging him to spend too much time in reading and composition , and too little at the bedside of patients . He nowhere shows any genius for medicine , and , though he some ...
... success was probably injurious to him as a physician by encouraging him to spend too much time in reading and composition , and too little at the bedside of patients . He nowhere shows any genius for medicine , and , though he some ...
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Page 207 - For the Church of England, I am persuaded that the constant doctrine of it is so pure and orthodox, that whosoever believes it and lives according to it, undoubtedly he shall be saved; and that there is no error in it which may necessitate or warrant any man to disturb the peace or renounce the communion of it.
Page 292 - Divi Britannici, being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the world 2855, unto the year of grace 1660, fol.
Page 31 - The whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poets, in his Iliads and Odysses, translated according to the Greeke, by George Chapman.
Page 109 - Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world.
Page 202 - England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good of their own private families, much less for the regulating of companies, and foreign commerce " (Hamilton's New Account of India, i.232).
Page 371 - The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum.
Page 54 - Charta, and the other six statutes insisted upon for the subjects' liberty, to be all in force, and assures you that he will maintain all his subjects in the just freedom of their persons and safety of their estates, and that he will govern according to the laws and statutes of this realm, and that you shall find as much security in his Majesty's royal word and promise as in the strength of any law ye can make, so that hereafter ye shall never have cause to complain.
Page 64 - For the people. And truly I desire their liberty and freedom as much as anybody whomsoever. But I must tell you that their liberty and freedom consists in having of government: those laws by which their life and their goods may be most their own. It is not for having share in government, sir, that is nothing pertaining to them.
Page 106 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Page 113 - Enquiry into the authenticity of the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley, in which the arguments of the Dean of Exeter and Mr. Bryant are examined, by Thomas Warton,