Dictionary of National Biography, Volumen4Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1885 |
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... passed upon her . Early in the following year in the Netherlands during the ill - fated at- Beale carried the warrant to Fotheringay and tempt to relieve Sluys , in what precise capa- performed the ghastly duty of reading it city does ...
... passed upon her . Early in the following year in the Netherlands during the ill - fated at- Beale carried the warrant to Fotheringay and tempt to relieve Sluys , in what precise capa- performed the ghastly duty of reading it city does ...
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... passed in 1867. Beales resigned the presidency on 10 March 1869 , and three days later the league was formally dissolved . Beales was a revising barrister for Middlesex from 1862 to 1866 , when , in consequence of the active part he had ...
... passed in 1867. Beales resigned the presidency on 10 March 1869 , and three days later the league was formally dissolved . Beales was a revising barrister for Middlesex from 1862 to 1866 , when , in consequence of the active part he had ...
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... passed , by which Bealknap and the other attainted judges were restored to their rights . This act , however , was shortly afterwards an- nulled , i.e. in 1399 , on the accession of Henry IV . In 1399 the commons petitioned parliament ...
... passed , by which Bealknap and the other attainted judges were restored to their rights . This act , however , was shortly afterwards an- nulled , i.e. in 1399 , on the accession of Henry IV . In 1399 the commons petitioned parliament ...
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... passed through five large editions in four years , and was translated into French , German , Dutch , and Italian . In the history of philosophy it has not the slightest importance . The loose , commonplace character of the professor's ...
... passed through five large editions in four years , and was translated into French , German , Dutch , and Italian . In the history of philosophy it has not the slightest importance . The loose , commonplace character of the professor's ...
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... passed through four editions before the publication ( in 1774 ) of the second book . The harmony of versi- fication and the beauty of the descriptive passages have preserved this poem from the oblivion which has overtaken Beattie's ...
... passed through four editions before the publication ( in 1774 ) of the second book . The harmony of versi- fication and the beauty of the descriptive passages have preserved this poem from the oblivion which has overtaken Beattie's ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 34 - KARAMANIA; OR, A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SOUTH COAST OF ASIA MINOR. And of the Remains of Antiquity : with Maps, Plans, Views, &c.
Página 311 - The Miseries of Human Life ; or the Last Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive, with a few supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.