The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 80A. Constable, 1844 |
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... father , Colonel John Selwyn , of Matson in Gloucestershire , where the family ranked as one of the best in the county , had been aide - de - camp to the Duke of Marlborough , commanded a regiment , sat many years in Parliament , and ...
... father , Colonel John Selwyn , of Matson in Gloucestershire , where the family ranked as one of the best in the county , had been aide - de - camp to the Duke of Marlborough , commanded a regiment , sat many years in Parliament , and ...
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... father , was only L.220 a - year ; and he appears to have been constantly in distress for money . In a letter to his former Eton tutor , Mr Vincent Ma- thias , ( Paris , November 1742 , ) he entreats his advice as to the best mode of ...
... father , was only L.220 a - year ; and he appears to have been constantly in distress for money . In a letter to his former Eton tutor , Mr Vincent Ma- thias , ( Paris , November 1742 , ) he entreats his advice as to the best mode of ...
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... father's being dangerously ill , which was confirmed to me last post . As you have always convinced me of your love for your father , ( though I can't persuade the world you will be sorry for his death , ) I shall be glad to know , if ...
... father's being dangerously ill , which was confirmed to me last post . As you have always convinced me of your love for your father , ( though I can't persuade the world you will be sorry for his death , ) I shall be glad to know , if ...
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Or Critical Journal. " His father died in 1751 without tying up the property , which brought with it the power of nominating two members for Lud- gershall , and interest enough at Gloucester to ensure his own return for that city . The ...
Or Critical Journal. " His father died in 1751 without tying up the property , which brought with it the power of nominating two members for Lud- gershall , and interest enough at Gloucester to ensure his own return for that city . The ...
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... father's death - pro- bably from his first introduction to the clubs . In 1748 , Gilly Williams asks- What do you intend ? I think the almanack bids you take care of colds , and abstain from physic ; I say , ' avoid the knowing ones ...
... father's death - pro- bably from his first introduction to the clubs . In 1748 , Gilly Williams asks- What do you intend ? I think the almanack bids you take care of colds , and abstain from physic ; I say , ' avoid the knowing ones ...
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Seite 274 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 323 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Seite 20 - Blair's Chronological and Historical Tables, from the Creation to the Present Time : With Additions and Corrections from the most authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connecting the Period from the Exode to the Temple.
Seite 468 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 15 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Seite 19 - LAING.— THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY, From the Earliest Period of the History of the Northern Sea Kings to the Middle of the Twelfth Century, commonly called The Heimskringla. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, with Notes, and a Preliminary Discourse, by SAMUEL LAINO, Author of " Notes of a Traveller,
Seite 313 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Seite 149 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Seite 135 - The Glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass, Or with its ice delay.