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Pagina 14
... success in Cromwell's time . It seems to have been an explosive acting directly in a downward direction . Drebbel wrote , in Dutch , a treatise on the Nature of the Elements ' ( Leyden , 1608 , German translation ; Haerlem , 1621 ...
... success in Cromwell's time . It seems to have been an explosive acting directly in a downward direction . Drebbel wrote , in Dutch , a treatise on the Nature of the Elements ' ( Leyden , 1608 , German translation ; Haerlem , 1621 ...
Pagina 28
... success by at- tacking the enemy's headquarters at Fort Erie , which had been actually carried on 25 Aug. , when a terrible explosion caused a panic , and the fort which had been so hardly gained was evacuated by his troops . He re ...
... success by at- tacking the enemy's headquarters at Fort Erie , which had been actually carried on 25 Aug. , when a terrible explosion caused a panic , and the fort which had been so hardly gained was evacuated by his troops . He re ...
Pagina 32
... success , taking several pri- soners with his own hand , having a horse killed under him , and receiving a musket - shot in the right arm . On the siege of Stirling being raised he covered the rear . At Cullo- den he was posted in the ...
... success , taking several pri- soners with his own hand , having a horse killed under him , and receiving a musket - shot in the right arm . On the siege of Stirling being raised he covered the rear . At Cullo- den he was posted in the ...
Pagina 44
... success can be given than by stating that the number of troops in the country two years before his arrival was 23,998 ; the number when he ceased to rule 14,956 , the number seven years after he had ceased to rule 28,108 . Drummond ...
... success can be given than by stating that the number of troops in the country two years before his arrival was 23,998 ; the number when he ceased to rule 14,956 , the number seven years after he had ceased to rule 28,108 . Drummond ...
Pagina 55
... successes as an undergraduate . In 1837 he took the ordinary B.A. degree , proceeding M.A. in 1840. In 1838 he became classical lecturer at Caius , but , having been ordained , he left Cambridge in 1839 to take sole charge of Alderley ...
... successes as an undergraduate . In 1837 he took the ordinary B.A. degree , proceeding M.A. in 1840. In 1838 he became classical lecturer at Caius , but , having been ordained , he left Cambridge in 1839 to take sole charge of Alderley ...
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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.
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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,