Annals of Eminent Living Men

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... Beautiful;" "The First Lines of Science Exemplified, and the Structure of Molecules Attempted," 1860. The philosophical views of Dr. M'V., which are already exciting considerable interest amongst metaphysicians, may be described as in the main those of Leibnitz and Boscovich, adapted to the present state of physics and chemistry. Their leading characteristic is an extension of the law of assimilation, and its application to all phenomena whatsoever as their formal cause; and an attempt to explain the chemical and physical properties of the molecules of bodies, by viewing them as composed of statical groups of ethereal atoms united after various types of symmetry. MALMESBURY, James Howard Harbis, third Earl of. Born, 1807; educated at Eton and Oriel Colleges, Oxford; entered parliament for Walton, 1841; succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, 1841; was Minister for Foreign Affairs in Lord Derby's administration, 1852-53, and again from February, 1858, to April, 1859. MANNERS, John Henry Thomas Sotton, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. Second son of Viscount Canterbury; educated at Eton and Cambridge; represented Cambridge for several years; was Under-Secretary of the Home Department under Peel, 1841-46; appointed to be Lieutenant-Governor, 1854. MANNERS, Lord John James Robert, M.P. for North Leicestershire. Son of fifth, and brother of the sixth, Duke of Rutland; born, 1818; graduated M.A., at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1839; was Commissioner of Works in both the Derby administrations; represented Newark, 1841--47; Colchester, 1850-57; and North Leicestershire since February, 1857. MANSEL, Rev. Henry Sougueville, B.D., (Oxford, ) LL.D., (Edinburgh, ) Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy in the University of Oxford. Eldest...