Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 16

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Leslie Stephen
Macmillan, 1888

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Pagina 63 - But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Pagina 122 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Pagina 210 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Pagina 66 - The Hind and the Panther transversed to the story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse,' printed in 1687, in 4to, in answer to Dryden's ' Hind and Panther,
Pagina 12 - Reasons of Faith ; or, the Order of the Christian Argument Developed and Explained. By the Rev. GS DREW, MA Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Fcp. 8vo.
Pagina 209 - Dunning and myself,' added he, ' we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise.
Pagina 339 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Pagina 22 - Ixiv. 467) to copies of proposals for carrying on certain public works in the city of Edinburgh...
Pagina 81 - Some account of the Alien Priories, and of such Lands as they are known to have possessed in England and Wales,
Pagina 194 - Bibliotheca theologica,' NY, 1883 : upon ethics in Fr. Jodl's 'Geschichte der Ethik,' Stuttg., 1882-89: and upon psychology in LN Wilson's 'Bibliography of child-study,' Worcester, Mass., 1898-1901, and especially in 'The index catalogue of the library of the SurgeonGeneral's Office,

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