 | William Chambers - 1873 - 322 pages
...praise lavished upon him by learned societies. In 1785, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal 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. Enjoying the respect... | |
 | Gardiner Spring Plumley - 1874 - 838 pages
...his pastoral charge, and was introduced to his new field of labor in October following. The same year the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him, by the University of North Carolina. In 1815, an extensive revival of religion prevailed in the college, which resulted... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...Sonnets, and Yarrow Revisited, which appeared in 1835. The tide of popularity had now set in. In 1839, the degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon him by the university of Oxford amid the enthusiastic applause of the crowded theatre. Three years later he was permitted... | |
 | Gardiner Spring Plumley - 1875 - 834 pages
...his pastoral charge, and was introduced to his new field of labor in October following. The same year the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him, by the University of North Carolina. In 1815, an extensive revival of religion prevailed in the college, which resulted... | |
 | Jerome Bonaparte Washington - 1876 - 976 pages
...contemporaries, the honors due to his genius. In 1785, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal 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. He died, August... | |
 | Hermon Griswold Batterson - 1878 - 338 pages
...Columbia College, New York, AD 1850, and from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, AD 219 1865. The Degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by The University of Cambridge, England, AD 1867. Consecrated Bishop of Pittsburg in Trinity Church, Pittsburg, on the 25th day of... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 pages
...contemporaries the honours due to his genius. In 1785 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal 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. He died on the 25th... | |
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - 1879 - 456 pages
...had said, and she replied, " Buona nolle." It was during his last visit to Ireland that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Dublin. He had long relinquished his early title of Dr. Lever ; he now reassumed it with satisfaction,... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1883 - 622 pages
...and he lived to superintend two subsequent editions. Honours continued to be paid him. In May 1771, the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford, in full Convocation ; when a laudatory speech was made by Mr. Foster, who presented him... | |
 | Lock and Whitfield - 1883 - 166 pages
...Sea, which have yielded results of great importance to physical and biological science. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh, August ist, 1871. Dr. Carpenter presided over the British Association at its meeting... | |
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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. 
