The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith, Volume 13

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H. Milford, 1922 - Great Britain
 

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Page 468 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 364 - Ogilby to mine, the world has made him the same compliment; for 'tis agreed, on all hands, that he writes even below Ogilby. That, you will say, is not easily to be done; but what cannot M bring about? I am satisfied, however, that, while he and I live together, I shall not be thought the worst poet of the age.
Page 417 - Sharon Turner's History of the AngloSaxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.
Page 341 - A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages through several successive centuries...
Page 345 - Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, Being the Second Voyage set forth by the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.
Page 468 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compar'd.
Page 114 - The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, FRS Written between 1771 and 1781, Edited from the original manuscripts in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, KG, by J. CLERK MAXWELL, FRS Demy 8vo. cloth, iSs. Hydrodynamics, a Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Fluid Motion, by HORACE LAMB, MA, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Adelaide.
Page 384 - I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it.
Page 375 - A Nights Search. Discovering the Nature and Condition of all sorts of Night- Walkers ; with their Associates. As also, the Life and Death of many of them. Together with divers fearfull and strange Accidents, occasioned by such ill livers.
Page 186 - MEDOWS, Sir Philip. Observations concerning the Dominion and Sovereignty of the Seas, being an Abstract of the marine Affairs of England.

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