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... John Britton , to give to the world some of the interesting Stukeley Collections which had come into his hands . A portion of these collections was exhibited by him at the Congress of the Archæological Institute held at Lincoln in 1848 ...
... John Britton , to give to the world some of the interesting Stukeley Collections which had come into his hands . A portion of these collections was exhibited by him at the Congress of the Archæological Institute held at Lincoln in 1848 ...
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... John Francis Seymour St. John , canon of Worcester , the grandfather of the present owner ( Harris F. St. John ) , who has inherited numerous Stukeley pictures , MSS . , volumes of sketches , relics , and a large collection of coins and ...
... John Francis Seymour St. John , canon of Worcester , the grandfather of the present owner ( Harris F. St. John ) , who has inherited numerous Stukeley pictures , MSS . , volumes of sketches , relics , and a large collection of coins and ...
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... John Clerk , between whom , from first to last , there existed the warmest ties of friendship and esteem . Almost all of their correspondents , as well as almost all of those with whom they had intimate social relations , to whom ...
... John Clerk , between whom , from first to last , there existed the warmest ties of friendship and esteem . Almost all of their correspondents , as well as almost all of those with whom they had intimate social relations , to whom ...
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... John's College , Cambridge , and deputy to the Plumian Professor of Astronomy there , and by Rev. J. R. Lunn , B.D. , late Fellow of St. John's , and Sadlerian lecturer , and now holding the college living of Marton - cum - Grafton ...
... John's College , Cambridge , and deputy to the Plumian Professor of Astronomy there , and by Rev. J. R. Lunn , B.D. , late Fellow of St. John's , and Sadlerian lecturer , and now holding the college living of Marton - cum - Grafton ...
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... John , I have had the opportunity of collating the transcripts with them . Generally speaking , the handwriting of the correspon- dents is excellent , while the spelling appears to have followed no fixed rules . It is the custom of the ...
... John , I have had the opportunity of collating the transcripts with them . Generally speaking , the handwriting of the correspon- dents is excellent , while the spelling appears to have followed no fixed rules . It is the custom of the ...
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Page 419 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 149 - a bold insolent man, with a very small measure of religion, virtue, learning, or good sense ; but he resolved to force himself into popularity and preferment, by the most petulant railings at dissenters and low churchmen, in several sermons and libels, written without either chasteness of style or liveliness of expression.
Page 55 - And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly : the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Page 166 - May 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and widow of Colonel Lee.
Page 169 - OPINION OF DR. STUKELEY. Oct. 9, 1722. " He is making searches about the Roman ways. He is a very fancifull man, and the things he hath publish'd are built upon fancy. He is looked upon as a man of no great authority, and his reputation dwindles every day, as I have learned from very good hands.
Page 313 - In 1721 he accompanied Dr. Sherrard to England, where he spent the remainder of his days. Soon after his arrival he undertook a new edition of " Ray's Synopsis ;" and was appointed the first botanical professor at Oxford on Sherrard's foundation. He wrote " Hortus Elthamensis
Page 62 - Jan. 6, 1721. I was made a Freemason at the Salutation Tav., Tavistock Street, with Mr. Collins, Capt. Rowe who made the famous diving Engine. The Directors late paramount, now despoil'd &c. Mr. Kemps antiquitys sold. Jan. 26. Mr. Le Neve Norroy & I took some transcriptions out of Domesday book.