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Page 187 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Page 264 - The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate, diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions, in divers languages.
Page 153 - The first part Of the true and honorable historie, of the life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham.
Page 336 - The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love" (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) " The wretch he starves" — and piously denies: But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
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Page 188 - Works of. Now first collected and arranged with a prefatory notice by JG Godwin.
Page 205 - they don't know when to abuse him, and when to praise him; I will allow no man to speak ill of David that he does not deserve; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom: but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality, and a tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended.
Page 163 - Prodromus ; or an Inquiry into the first Principles of Reasoning; including an Analysis of the Human Mind...
Page 277 - Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, with their Descriptions, from the Menagery of Osterly Park,
Page 108 - A Treatise on Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane of the Lungs ; to which is prefixed an Experimental Inquiry respecting the Contractile Power of the Blood Vessels and the Nature of Inflammation,
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| Title | Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 25 Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Leslie Stephen |
| Editor | Sir Leslie Stephen |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1891 |
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