Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 56

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1898 - Great Britain

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Page 95 - Though my marriage was a wreck, as you know, I would do it over again, for behold Love is the crown and completion of all earthly good.
Page 100 - I will. retire, and take my place with my pen and ink at my desk, and leave to Mr. Cardwell a business which I am sure he understands better than I do.
Page 436 - Labor Lost! I once did see a play Ycleped so, so called to my paine, Which I to heare to my small joy did stay, Giving attendance on my froward dame: My misgiving mind presaging to me ill, Yet was I drawn to see it 'gainst my will.
Page 14 - TREATISE ON ROADS; Wherein the Principles on which Roads should be made are explained and illustrated by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts made use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holy-head Road.
Page 103 - Comic Tales and Sketches, edited and illustrated by Mr. Michael Angelo Titmarsh,
Page 93 - This lawyer's preparatory education is certainly one of the most cold-blooded, prejudiced pieces of invention that ever a man was slave to.
Page 29 - Depend upon it, that the best way of keeping any men quiet is to let them see that you are able and determined to repel force by force ; and the Chinese are not in the least different in this respect from the rest of mankind.
Page 25 - ... like holding a bottle of salts to the nose of a lady who had been frightened.
Page 92 - The Snob: a Literary and Scientific Journal," NOT " conducted by members of the University,

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