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... Society , Sir Everard Home , Sir James Mackintosh , and numerous others from persons who had distinguished themselves for scientific attain- ments . To the scientific man this work possesses more interest than any other in the ...
... Society , Sir Everard Home , Sir James Mackintosh , and numerous others from persons who had distinguished themselves for scientific attain- ments . To the scientific man this work possesses more interest than any other in the ...
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... Society of Jesus at eighteen years of age , devoted twelve years to the study of belles - lettres , and passed the remainder of his life in apostolic labors , during which he found time not only to write the work in question , but ...
... Society of Jesus at eighteen years of age , devoted twelve years to the study of belles - lettres , and passed the remainder of his life in apostolic labors , during which he found time not only to write the work in question , but ...
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... Society . In the In- troduction , Mr. Whitehead , the editor , remarks , that " only four copies are known to exist - two in Eu- rope and two in the United States . " In the library is also to be found a work of exceeding rarity on the ...
... Society . In the In- troduction , Mr. Whitehead , the editor , remarks , that " only four copies are known to exist - two in Eu- rope and two in the United States . " In the library is also to be found a work of exceeding rarity on the ...
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... Society of London to make accurate measurements of the ancient edifices of Athens , and executed their work with such fidelity that it is possible from their drawings to erect a modern structure with the same proportions as those which ...
... Society of London to make accurate measurements of the ancient edifices of Athens , and executed their work with such fidelity that it is possible from their drawings to erect a modern structure with the same proportions as those which ...
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... societies , among which are the Mémoires du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle from their commencement , in more than forty quarto volumes ; Oken's Isis , in forty - one quartos ; the Annales des Sciences Naturelles , of France , in eighty ...
... societies , among which are the Mémoires du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle from their commencement , in more than forty quarto volumes ; Oken's Isis , in forty - one quartos ; the Annales des Sciences Naturelles , of France , in eighty ...
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Page 352 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 309 - He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, That leads to Brotherstone. He went not with the bold Buccleuch, His banner broad to rear; He went not 'gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack...
Page 75 - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
Page 81 - And unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio. Viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London ProdigalL The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
Page 247 - Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England, from the First Planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year, 1677.
Page 76 - The | Whole Contention | betweene the two Famous | Houses, LANCASTER and | YORKE. | With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, | and King Henrie the \ sixt. \ Diuided into two Parts: And newly corrected and | enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. | Printed at LONDON, for TP...
Page 30 - I was passionately fond as a boy (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ; indeed that and the ' Medea' were the only ones, except the ' Seven before Thebes,
Page 427 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 106 - A SHORT STORY OF THE RISE, REIGN AND RUIN OF THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES THAT INFECTED THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND...
Page viii - a passion for possessing books; not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them. He who is affected by this mania knows books only by their titles and dates, and is rather seduced by the exterior than the interior.