Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and ReadingBell & Daldy, 1859 - 256 páginas |
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... LORD MAHON'S History of England , Note . ** WE are told in this history , too , that , in 1745 , there was such a run on the Bank of England that it only escaped bankruptcy by paying in sixpences in order to gain time - a kind of ...
... LORD MAHON'S History of England , Note . ** WE are told in this history , too , that , in 1745 , there was such a run on the Bank of England that it only escaped bankruptcy by paying in sixpences in order to gain time - a kind of ...
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... lord down in any middle - class society , with indis- putable proofs of his nobility , and with indisputable proofs also that he is only worth one hundred pounds a year , and never likely to be worth more , and we may fairly doubt ...
... lord down in any middle - class society , with indis- putable proofs of his nobility , and with indisputable proofs also that he is only worth one hundred pounds a year , and never likely to be worth more , and we may fairly doubt ...
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... Lord Macaulay's list of weaknesses is certainly an awkward one . 66 Minuting down his dreams , counting the drops of blood that fell from his nose , watching the direction of the salt , and listening for the note of the screech - owl ...
... Lord Macaulay's list of weaknesses is certainly an awkward one . 66 Minuting down his dreams , counting the drops of blood that fell from his nose , watching the direction of the salt , and listening for the note of the screech - owl ...
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... Lord Erskine is said , on one occasion , to have been exces- sively indignant with his printer , because one of his pam phlets was not ready at the appointed time . The printer ex- cused himself by saying , that really he was very sorry ...
... Lord Erskine is said , on one occasion , to have been exces- sively indignant with his printer , because one of his pam phlets was not ready at the appointed time . The printer ex- cused himself by saying , that really he was very sorry ...
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... Lord Carnarvon's anathema on the practice , in his notes to " Portu- gal and Gallicia ; " and to congratulate my countrymen that the French names , Flourens and Majendie , are far more il- lustrious in the annals of vivisection than any ...
... Lord Carnarvon's anathema on the practice , in his notes to " Portu- gal and Gallicia ; " and to congratulate my countrymen that the French names , Flourens and Majendie , are far more il- lustrious in the annals of vivisection than any ...
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