The Annual Biography and Obituary, Bind 14Longman., 1830 |
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... circumstances ; but , unfor- tunately , too few by a union of superior beauty with virtuous conduct . To the subject of the present memoir , however , this high praise is justly due . Miss Eliza Farren was born in the year 1759 , and ...
... circumstances ; but , unfor- tunately , too few by a union of superior beauty with virtuous conduct . To the subject of the present memoir , however , this high praise is justly due . Miss Eliza Farren was born in the year 1759 , and ...
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... circumstance is entitled to some indulgence from the critic pen . Her performance of Miss Hardcastle , though far short of Mrs. Bulkeley , who was the original bar- maid , would not have disgraced either of our winter theatres . Her ...
... circumstance is entitled to some indulgence from the critic pen . Her performance of Miss Hardcastle , though far short of Mrs. Bulkeley , who was the original bar- maid , would not have disgraced either of our winter theatres . Her ...
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... circumstance , which at once placed Miss Farren , who succeeded her , in her proper sphere . It was at about this period of her fame that the celebrated Charles Fox was observed to pay her particular attention , frequently dangling ...
... circumstance , which at once placed Miss Farren , who succeeded her , in her proper sphere . It was at about this period of her fame that the celebrated Charles Fox was observed to pay her particular attention , frequently dangling ...
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... circumstances , he became placed in a situation to which his talents and disposition were peculiarly adapted , the early doom of one so eminently qualified to do useful and honour- able service to his country and the world , of one who ...
... circumstances , he became placed in a situation to which his talents and disposition were peculiarly adapted , the early doom of one so eminently qualified to do useful and honour- able service to his country and the world , of one who ...
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... circumstances , that African atmosphere possessed no perils for him , so inured had he been to all its influences during his wide , wide travels through its burning deserts , and along its steaming shores ; if a jocund , happy heart ...
... circumstances , that African atmosphere possessed no perils for him , so inured had he been to all its influences during his wide , wide travels through its burning deserts , and along its steaming shores ; if a jocund , happy heart ...
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Side 395 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
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Side 201 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political.
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Side 50 - In sciences kindred to chemistry, the knowledge of the nature of the alkalies, and the analogies arising in consequence, will open many new views; they may lead to the solution of many problems in geology, and shew that agents may have operated in the formation of rocks and earths which have not hitherto been suspected to exist.
Side 144 - For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this house, in gratitude for your many and eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments; but this nation well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction, that amidst the constellation of illustrious warriors, who have recently visited our country...
Side 63 - The Bakerian Lecture, on some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to inflammable Bodies.