The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ...C. Knight, 1834 |
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... formation of the Grenville administration , in 1806 , he was appointed Chancellor of Great Britain , and raised to the peerage , by the title of Baron Erskine , of Restormel Castle in Cornwall . The short period during which he presided ...
... formation of the Grenville administration , in 1806 , he was appointed Chancellor of Great Britain , and raised to the peerage , by the title of Baron Erskine , of Restormel Castle in Cornwall . The short period during which he presided ...
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... formed by one half comes exactly into contact with the image of the other formed by the other half , the angular distance of the two objects may be calculated , from observation of the distance between the centres of the two halves ...
... formed by one half comes exactly into contact with the image of the other formed by the other half , the angular distance of the two objects may be calculated , from observation of the distance between the centres of the two halves ...
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... formed in all refracting telescopes previously constructed . He was led to this practical result by the discovery of a principle in optics , that the dis- persion of light in passing through a refracting medium , that is , the greater ...
... formed in all refracting telescopes previously constructed . He was led to this practical result by the discovery of a principle in optics , that the dis- persion of light in passing through a refracting medium , that is , the greater ...
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... forming the achromatic object- glass now used , consisting of a convex lens of crown , and a concave of flint glass . His son afterwards , in 1765 , constructed the triple object- glass , having a double concave lens of flint glass in ...
... forming the achromatic object- glass now used , consisting of a convex lens of crown , and a concave of flint glass . His son afterwards , in 1765 , constructed the triple object- glass , having a double concave lens of flint glass in ...
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... forming Dr. Hunter's splendid museum , bequeathed by the owner to the University of Glasgow . He continued to attend ... formed an exten- sive library , and possessed the finest cabinet of coins in Europe . Students crowded around him ...
... forming Dr. Hunter's splendid museum , bequeathed by the owner to the University of Glasgow . He continued to attend ... formed an exten- sive library , and possessed the finest cabinet of coins in Europe . Students crowded around him ...
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Página 197 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Página 161 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Página 13 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Página 62 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.
Página 196 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before ! So sweet, so lovely, and so mild as she, Adorned with Beauty's grace and Virtue's store...
Página 177 - Chaucer) were of the Inner Temple ; for not many years since Master Buckley did see a record in the same house where Geoffry Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street.
Página 158 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Página 42 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Página 157 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Página 187 - ... ever come, when you shall wish to enjoy the tranquillity of private life, may you have a son endowed with such qualities, that you can resign your sceptre to him, with as much satisfaction as I give up mine to you.