The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith, Volume 22

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H. Milford, 1922

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Page 427 - Complete Concordance to Shakespeare : being a Verbal Index to all the passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet, by Mary Cowden Clarke ; 8vo., London 1845 ; 8vo., 1847; 8vo.
Page 301 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 443 - English judges among themselves used to be before the offices of chief justice of the common pleas and chief baron of the exchequer were suspended.
Page 428 - Proverbs; Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet, Collected into a Modern Instance.
Page 383 - ... found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble.
Page 472 - On the Sacrifice, Atonement, Vicarious Oblation, and Example of Christ, and the Punishment of Sin.
Page 475 - The Chinaman at Home and Abroad. By JOHN COMING CHINAMAN. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. While cast in the form of fiction, this "work, written from the Chinese point of view, will be found to throw valuable light on a curious and much misunderstood people. THE HEBREW TWINS : A Vindication of God's Ways with Jacob and Esau. By the late Rev. SAMUEL Cox, DD, Author of "Expositions
Page 117 - A PHILOLOGICAL GRAMMAR, grounded upon English, and formed from a comparison of more than Sixty Languages. Being an Introduction to the Science of Grammars of all Languages, especially English, Latin, and Greek. By the Rev. W. Barnes, B D., of St. John's College, Cambridge; Author of " Poems in the Dorset Dialect,
Page 34 - Society ; the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Glasgow in 1806; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the French Institute.
Page 174 - The Bessemer invention takes its rank with the great events which have changed the face of society since the Middle Ages. The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of America and the introduction of the steam engine are the only capital events in modern history which belong to the same category as the Bessemer process.

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