The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - Lancashire (England) - 732 pages |
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... dates , and events in which the bulk of the species are as passive as in their own birth and death . Nor can the majority of readers derive any thing from such histories , b better than empty speculations , not quite so trifling ,
... dates , and events in which the bulk of the species are as passive as in their own birth and death . Nor can the majority of readers derive any thing from such histories , b better than empty speculations , not quite so trifling ,
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... death , and exile , and crueller estrange- ment . Yet if his heart was often wounded it was never hardened . ever retained and cherished his love of the gentle , the beautiful , and the imaginative . His virtue , firm and uncompromising ...
... death , and exile , and crueller estrange- ment . Yet if his heart was often wounded it was never hardened . ever retained and cherished his love of the gentle , the beautiful , and the imaginative . His virtue , firm and uncompromising ...
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... death . It is inscribed to the Honourable the Lord Bradshaw . No apology can be required for inserting it entire . " MY LORD , " But that it would be an interruption to the public , wherein your studies are perpetually employed , I ...
... death . It is inscribed to the Honourable the Lord Bradshaw . No apology can be required for inserting it entire . " MY LORD , " But that it would be an interruption to the public , wherein your studies are perpetually employed , I ...
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... death of Salmasius to chagrin at his defeat . Even good men seldom enter a controversy without making wreck of their peace of mind . In 1657 Marvell became tutor to Cromwell's nephew . There is extant a letter of his to the Protector ...
... death of Salmasius to chagrin at his defeat . Even good men seldom enter a controversy without making wreck of their peace of mind . In 1657 Marvell became tutor to Cromwell's nephew . There is extant a letter of his to the Protector ...
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... death of Captain Douglas , who was burned on his ship at Chatham . Like most copies of verses produced on the spur of some public wonder , or last week's heroism , it is very indifferent . There is something humorous , certainly , in ...
... death of Captain Douglas , who was burned on his ship at Chatham . Like most copies of verses produced on the spur of some public wonder , or last week's heroism , it is very indifferent . There is something humorous , certainly , in ...
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