Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 - 1809-10, Volumen51803 |
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... Bishop of London Dean Tucker Lord Duncan The Bishop of Rochester Mr. Justice Buller Dr. Wolcot The Abp . of Canterbury Mr. Arthur Murphy The Earl of Dartmouth The Bishop of Durham Mr. King ( the Comedian ) The Bishop of Winchester The ...
... Bishop of London Dean Tucker Lord Duncan The Bishop of Rochester Mr. Justice Buller Dr. Wolcot The Abp . of Canterbury Mr. Arthur Murphy The Earl of Dartmouth The Bishop of Durham Mr. King ( the Comedian ) The Bishop of Winchester The ...
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... Bishop of Lincoln Mrs. Cowley Dr. Beattie General Hutchinson James Martin , M. P. Dr. Rees Mr. Arthur Young . Dr. Moore Critical Opinions upon the preceding Volumes . " This work excites much curiofity because it profeffedly treats of ...
... Bishop of Lincoln Mrs. Cowley Dr. Beattie General Hutchinson James Martin , M. P. Dr. Rees Mr. Arthur Young . Dr. Moore Critical Opinions upon the preceding Volumes . " This work excites much curiofity because it profeffedly treats of ...
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... Bishop of Durham . In 1765 he was admitted to the Society of the Middle Temple in 1768 he took the degree of Master of Arts ; and in the same year was called to the bar , and went the Northern circuit . In December 1770 he appears to ...
... Bishop of Durham . In 1765 he was admitted to the Society of the Middle Temple in 1768 he took the degree of Master of Arts ; and in the same year was called to the bar , and went the Northern circuit . In December 1770 he appears to ...
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... Bishop of Dur- ham in 1779 , when it also met with similar fate , having been negatived by a division of 51 to 40 . The frequency of divorce bills of late years , and the evident shameful collusion practised respecting them by the ...
... Bishop of Dur- ham in 1779 , when it also met with similar fate , having been negatived by a division of 51 to 40 . The frequency of divorce bills of late years , and the evident shameful collusion practised respecting them by the ...
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... bishop of Llandaff ) , king's professor of divinity in the university of Cambridge , 8vo . " This pamphlet contained a refutation of some political positions ad- vanced by the professor in a sermon preached before the university . In ...
... bishop of Llandaff ) , king's professor of divinity in the university of Cambridge , 8vo . " This pamphlet contained a refutation of some political positions ad- vanced by the professor in a sermon preached before the university . In ...
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Página 24 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Página 448 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Página 497 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Página 309 - Carlile, he treated it with the utmost contempt ; and told me, in his turn, that as I had learned enough, and more than enough, at school, he must be considered as having fairly discharged his duty ; (so, indeed, he had ;) he added, that he had been negotiating with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally agreed to take me without a fee, as an apprentice. I was so shocked at this intelligence, that I did not remonstrate; but went in sullenness and silence to my new master,...
Página 304 - Carlile sickened at the expense ; and, as the people were now indifferent to my fate, he looked round for an opportunity of ridding himself of a useless charge. He had previously attempted to engage me in the drudgery of husbandry. I drove the plough for one day to gratify him ; but I left it with a firm resolution to do so no more, and in despite of his threats and promises, adhered to my determination. In this, I was guided no less by necessity than will. During my father's life, in attempting...
Página 310 - I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study, at every interval of leisure. These intervals were not very frequent ; and when the use I made of them was found out, they were rendered still less so. I could not guess the motives for this at first ; but at length I discovered that my master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it...
Página 313 - ... with favours more substantial : little collections were now and then made, and I have received sixpence in an evening. To one who had long lived in the absolute want of money, such a resource seemed a Peruvian mine : I furnished myself by degrees with paper, &c. and what was of more importance, with books of geometry, and of the higher branches of algebra, which I cautiously concealed. Poetry, even at this time, was no amusement of mine : it was subservient to other purposes ; and I only had...
Página 336 - Th' adorning Thee with so much art, Is but a barb'rous skill : 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill.
Página 215 - In strains more exalted the salt-box shall join, And clattering and battering and clapping combine ; With a rap and a tap, while the hollow side sounds. Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds '." . I mentioned the periodical paper called
Página 310 - With the Bible, indeed, I was well acquainted ; it was the favourite study of my grandmother, and reading it frequently with her, had impressed it strongly on my mind ; these then, with the Imitation of Thomas a Kempis, which I used to read to my mother on her deathbed, constituted the whole of my literary acquisitions.