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... continued near four years . " While there he was the bearer of a letter from George II to Nadir Shah . Dis- satisfied with his employers , and impressed with the dangers to which the factory was exposed from the unsettled nature of the ...
... continued near four years . " While there he was the bearer of a letter from George II to Nadir Shah . Dis- satisfied with his employers , and impressed with the dangers to which the factory was exposed from the unsettled nature of the ...
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... continued to be the hall of the company . The house had been in his possession since 1504 . His portrait , dated 1504 , is preserved in the hall , but is apparently a copy painted after the great fire of 1666 , when the hall was burnt ...
... continued to be the hall of the company . The house had been in his possession since 1504 . His portrait , dated 1504 , is preserved in the hall , but is apparently a copy painted after the great fire of 1666 , when the hall was burnt ...
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... continued to write diligently , and his name became more widely known . In 1768 he was ap- pointed professor in divinity to the Associate Burgher Synod . A great deal of work , but For now I'm grown sae cursed douce , I pray an ' ponder ...
... continued to write diligently , and his name became more widely known . In 1768 he was ap- pointed professor in divinity to the Associate Burgher Synod . A great deal of work , but For now I'm grown sae cursed douce , I pray an ' ponder ...
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... continued his work to very near the end . He died at Haddington on 19 June 1787 , and was interred in the church- yard there , where there is a monument to his memory . He was twice married : first to Janet Thomson , Musselburgh ...
... continued his work to very near the end . He died at Haddington on 19 June 1787 , and was interred in the church- yard there , where there is a monument to his memory . He was twice married : first to Janet Thomson , Musselburgh ...
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... continued to attend University of Edinburgh ' ( 1787 ) . The first the medical classes for five years , supporting formal indication of Brown's emendations on himself by giving private lessons in the the basis of Cullen is said to have ...
... continued to attend University of Edinburgh ' ( 1787 ) . The first the medical classes for five years , supporting formal indication of Brown's emendations on himself by giving private lessons in the the basis of Cullen is said to have ...
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Side 343 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Side 337 - I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you.' — ' No, Sir,' said Johnson, ' it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.
Side 238 - Who knows the inscrutable design? Blessed be He who took and gave! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave? We bow to Heaven that willed it so, That darkly rules the fate of all, That sends the respite or the blow, That's free to give or to recall.
Side 253 - Pathomyotomia Or a Dissection Of the significative Muscles of the Affections of the Minde. Being an Essay to a New Method of observing the most Important movings of the Muscles of the Head, as they are the neerest and Immediate Organs of the Voluntarie or Impetuous motions of the Mind. With the Proposall of a new Nomenclature of the Muscles. By JB Sirnamed the Chirosopher.
Side 60 - In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the Church is my text ; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment : where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva, but the dictates of my own reason.
Side 23 - I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee. Dr. Fell.
Side 356 - THE ROMANCE OF THE FORUM; OR, NARRATIVES, SCENES, AND ANECDOTES FROM COURTS OF JUSTICE. SECOND SERIES. BY PETER BURKE, Esa., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21s.
Side 70 - The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
Side 56 - He was once a man ; and of some little name ; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Side 272 - As for his person, he was tall of stature, strong-boned, though not corpulent, somewhat of a ruddy face, with sparkling eyes, wearing his hair on his upper lip, after the old British fashion ; his hair reddish, but, in his latter days, time had sprinkled it with grey; his nose well set, but not declining or bending, and his mouth moderately large ;' his forehead something high; and his habit always plain and modest.