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Page 1635 - Encyclopaedia of Geography ; comprising a complete Description of the Earth : Exhibiting its Relation to the Heavenly Bodies, its Physical Structure, the Natural History of each Country, and the Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, and Civil and Social State of All Nations. Second Edition ; with 82 Maps, and upwards of 1,000 other Woodcuts. 8vo. price 60s. Neale.
Page 1517 - MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER'S Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain, from the beginning of the World to AD 1307. By CD Yonge. 2 vols. NENNIUS. Chronicle of.— See Six OE Chronicles. ORDERICUS VITALIS' Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy.
Page 1563 - Poems, &c., upon Several Occasions. By Mr. John Milton : both English and Latin, &c. Composed at several times. With a small Tractate of Education. To Mr. Hartlib. London, Printed for Tho. Dring, at the White Lion, next Chancery Lane End, in Fleet Street. 1673.
Page 1434 - Crown 8vo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century. Crown 8vo, 4s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Spain in the Sixteenth Century. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. Sermons, and Review of the
Page 1434 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century.
Page 1571 - The first Parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, contayning the Falles of the first infortunate Princes of this Lande: from the comming of Brute to the Incarnation of our Sauiour and Redemer lesu Christ«.
Page 1565 - Education in England has been in danger of being hurt by two of its greatest men, Milton and Locke. Milton's plan is impracticable, and I suppose has never been tried. Locke's, I fancy, has been tried often enough, but is very imperfect : it gives too much to one side, and too little to the other ; it gives too little to literature.
Page 1535 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 1541 - The Costume of the original Inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest Periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic Nations on the western Coasts of the Baltic, the Ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes.
Page 1565 - Colasterion ; a Reply to a nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce...