Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 31

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Leslie Stephen
Macmillan, 1892
 

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Pagina 144 - An Inquiry into the Constitution , Discipline , unity and Worship of the primitive Church , that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ, faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages; Londres, 1691, in-8°; — The History of the Apostles' creed, with critical observations on its several articles; Londres, 1702, in-8".
Pagina 133 - Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the Science of Heraldry in England, with Explanatory Observations on Armorial Ensigns, by James Dallaway, AM 4to.
Pagina 428 - In 1839 he was created a peer of the United Kingdom by the title of Baron Beauvale.
Pagina 151 - PLYMLEY (PETER). -LETTERS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE CATHOLICS TO MY BROTHER ABRAHAM, WHO LIVES IN THE COUNTRY. By PETER PLYMLEY. 21st Edition. Post 8vo. 7s. cloth. POETS...
Pagina 240 - Faith, in such case, if you should prosecute, I think Sir Godfrey should decide the suit; Who sent the thief that stole the cash away, And punish'd him that put it in his way.
Pagina 403 - Laing's (S.) Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein in 1851 : Being the Third Series of Notes of a Traveller.
Pagina 349 - Blood is a beggar, and so forth, and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls, of tragical speeches.
Pagina 92 - A Geological Essay on the Imperfect Evidence in Support of a Theory of the Earth, deducible either from its General Structure or from the Changes produced on its Surface by the operation of Existing Causes.
Pagina 162 - The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, with some Letters to Dr. Lister and others, occasioned principally by the Title of a Book, published by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius...
Pagina 117 - The Artless Midnight Thoughts of a Gentleman at Court ; who for many Years built on Sand, which every Blast of cross Fortune has defaced ; but now he has laid new Foundations on the Rock of his Salvation...

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