A Critical Dictionary of English Literature: And British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects, Volume 3J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 |
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... copies were destroyed by fire at Mr. Nichols's store , Feb. 8 , 1808 . " Mr. Nasmith's excellent edition of Tanner's Notitia . " - Mil- man's Hist . of Latin Chris . , viii . , b . xiv . , ch . i . , n . 2. Bibliotheca Britannico ...
... copies were destroyed by fire at Mr. Nichols's store , Feb. 8 , 1808 . " Mr. Nasmith's excellent edition of Tanner's Notitia . " - Mil- man's Hist . of Latin Chris . , viii . , b . xiv . , ch . i . , n . 2. Bibliotheca Britannico ...
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... copies were sold in 12 days , and in Eng- land 30,000 copies were sold in a few years . In " This is a capital book : in whichever way it is considered , brimfull of instruction . " - Lon . Athen . , 1850 , 680 . " Full of information ...
... copies were sold in 12 days , and in Eng- land 30,000 copies were sold in a few years . In " This is a capital book : in whichever way it is considered , brimfull of instruction . " - Lon . Athen . , 1850 , 680 . " Full of information ...
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... copies , privately printed . " It bespeaks the clear and acute understanding of this cele- brated philosopher , and appears to me an entire refutation of the scholastic argument of Descartes , -one more fit for the Anselms and such ...
... copies , privately printed . " It bespeaks the clear and acute understanding of this cele- brated philosopher , and appears to me an entire refutation of the scholastic argument of Descartes , -one more fit for the Anselms and such ...
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... copies privately printed . Puttick's , July , 1862 , 128 . 135. Nonsence upon Sence , or Sence upon Nonsence , chuse you whether , either or neither , & c . Written upon white paper , in a browne study . Beginning at the End and written ...
... copies privately printed . Puttick's , July , 1862 , 128 . 135. Nonsence upon Sence , or Sence upon Nonsence , chuse you whether , either or neither , & c . Written upon white paper , in a browne study . Beginning at the End and written ...
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... copies ; best paper , thick writing , royal , 25 copies : Drury , 2783 , £ 10 108 . " This is an incomparable edition , and hardly exceeded by any which this country can boast of . " - DIBDIN . " I read the sixteenth volume of the ...
... copies ; best paper , thick writing , royal , 25 copies : Drury , 2783 , £ 10 108 . " This is an incomparable edition , and hardly exceeded by any which this country can boast of . " - DIBDIN . " I read the sixteenth volume of the ...
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Page 2575 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take.
Page 2410 - A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.
Page 2525 - HAYDN'S DICTIONARY; OF DATES, relating to all Ages and Nations. For Universal Reference. Edited by BENJAMIN VINCENT, Assistant Secretary and Keeper of the. Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; and Revised for the Use of American Readers.
Page 2567 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Page 2572 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Page 2450 - ON THE STUDY OF WORDS. Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, Winchester.
Page 2515 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 2533 - Wake. — CHAPTERS ON MAN. With the Outlines of a Science of comparative Psychology. By C. STANILAND WAKE, Fellow of the Anthropological Society of London.
Page 2442 - Townsend (John) A Treatise on the Wrongs called Slander and Libel, and on the remedy, by civil action, for these wrongs. 8vo. i/. io*. Twenty Years Ago. (Forming 'Volume 3 of the John Halifax Series of Girls
Page 2578 - Talk about the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden...