The Annual Biography and Obituary, Bind 14Longman., 1830 |
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... mind was too much for the body . Trifles sometimes would irritate his temper ; but in battle he was the coolest of the cool , another point of similitude to Nelson . Gordon , on the contrary , though equalling his friend in sea- manship ...
... mind was too much for the body . Trifles sometimes would irritate his temper ; but in battle he was the coolest of the cool , another point of similitude to Nelson . Gordon , on the contrary , though equalling his friend in sea- manship ...
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... mind unsullied , though sportive . Her levity , therefore , was never wanton ; her mirth had no approach to rudeness . She played upon a coxcomb of either sex with the highest zest , but refinement was the invariable attendant upon her ...
... mind unsullied , though sportive . Her levity , therefore , was never wanton ; her mirth had no approach to rudeness . She played upon a coxcomb of either sex with the highest zest , but refinement was the invariable attendant upon her ...
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... in the value of the treasure that was once our own ; deriving many and high consolations from the reflections which cannot fail to present themselves to the religious mind on the removal of those we love to 34 LIEUT . - COL . DENHAM .
... in the value of the treasure that was once our own ; deriving many and high consolations from the reflections which cannot fail to present themselves to the religious mind on the removal of those we love to 34 LIEUT . - COL . DENHAM .
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religious mind on the removal of those we love to that region of purity and joy to which we ourselves ardently , yet humbly and fearfully , aspire . Strengthened , then , by these consider- ations , we proceed to finish our painful task ...
religious mind on the removal of those we love to that region of purity and joy to which we ourselves ardently , yet humbly and fearfully , aspire . Strengthened , then , by these consider- ations , we proceed to finish our painful task ...
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... mind the best of all possible services ; and , from this short narrative , it will be seen how entirely he had converted all things to the colour of his own imaginings . Such confidence had he in his own . resources , that , walking as ...
... mind the best of all possible services ; and , from this short narrative , it will be seen how entirely he had converted all things to the colour of his own imaginings . Such confidence had he in his own . resources , that , walking as ...
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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.
Side 133 - Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Side 160 - Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ; And time hath made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in.
Side 268 - Thoughts on the English Government — addressed to the quiet good sense of the people of England...
Side 201 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political.
Side 47 - ... in a state of intense activity ; and a platina wire, communicating with the positive side, was brought in contact with the upper surface of the alkali. The whole apparatus was in the open atmosphere.
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.