Dictionary of National Biography, المجلد 4Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1885 |
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... original notes , in which he suggested various changes soon after adopted in the British cavalry . He also completed and edited a history of the King's German Legion ' from its formation in the British service in 1803 to its disbandment ...
... original notes , in which he suggested various changes soon after adopted in the British cavalry . He also completed and edited a history of the King's German Legion ' from its formation in the British service in 1803 to its disbandment ...
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... original sketches , having been given to St. John's College , were granted in 1616 to Sir Thomas Lake , and ap- parently lost . Bearblock's drawings , with Neal's verses , were engraved in 1713 , at the end of Hearne's edition of ...
... original sketches , having been given to St. John's College , were granted in 1616 to Sir Thomas Lake , and ap- parently lost . Bearblock's drawings , with Neal's verses , were engraved in 1713 , at the end of Hearne's edition of ...
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... original character of the representations given by Handel at Covent Hawthorne in Bickerstaff's opera , ' Love in Garden Theatre of Acis and Galatea , ' Ata- a Village , ' he retired from the stage , for lanta , ' and other works . The ...
... original character of the representations given by Handel at Covent Hawthorne in Bickerstaff's opera , ' Love in Garden Theatre of Acis and Galatea , ' Ata- a Village , ' he retired from the stage , for lanta , ' and other works . The ...
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... original letters , and autographs . The library remained unexamined for forty years , when it came into Beatniffe's hands at the commencement of the century for the small sum of 150l . or 1607. On being sold piecemeal the collection ...
... original letters , and autographs . The library remained unexamined for forty years , when it came into Beatniffe's hands at the commencement of the century for the small sum of 150l . or 1607. On being sold piecemeal the collection ...
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... Original Poems and Translations , ' dedicated to the Earl of Erroll , consisting of pieces contributed to the Scots Magazine ' and verses recently composed . This collection , ' says his biographer , Sir William Forbes , ' was very ...
... Original Poems and Translations , ' dedicated to the Earl of Erroll , consisting of pieces contributed to the Scots Magazine ' and verses recently composed . This collection , ' says his biographer , Sir William Forbes , ' was very ...
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الصفحة 255 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
الصفحة 408 - The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland as are of English Families, with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of their Armorial bearings.
الصفحة 294 - Garth thus compliments his antagonist, at his expense, in the following lines : So diamonds take a lustre from their foil, And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle...
الصفحة 34 - KARAMANIA; OR, A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SOUTH COAST OF ASIA MINOR. And of the Remains of Antiquity : with Maps, Plans, Views, &c.
الصفحة 311 - The Miseries of Human Life ; or the Last Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive, with a few supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy.
الصفحة 293 - ... a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.
الصفحة 423 - The wonderful agony which he appeared in when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in Othello ; the mixture of love that intruded upon his mind, upon the innocent answers Desdemona makes, betrayed in his...
الصفحة 255 - By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness (all this in the present case comes to the same thing), or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered...
الصفحة 334 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
الصفحة 365 - The main Principles of the Creed and Ethics of the Jews, exhibited in Selections from the Yad Hachazakah of Maimonides, with a literal English Translation, copious Illustrations from the Talmud, &c.