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... French ambassador in London . To evade sentence , he retired to Holland , but was sent back to England , and apprehended at Birmingham . Sentenced to imprisonment , he died in Newgate , of fever , Novem- ber 1 , 1793. He had latterly ...
... French ambassador in London . To evade sentence , he retired to Holland , but was sent back to England , and apprehended at Birmingham . Sentenced to imprisonment , he died in Newgate , of fever , Novem- ber 1 , 1793. He had latterly ...
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... French Revolution ; became an active member of the clubs and debating societies which sprung up in all the towns upon the French border , and established a newspaper , entitled the Red Journal , which was the exponent of the most ...
... French Revolution ; became an active member of the clubs and debating societies which sprung up in all the towns upon the French border , and established a newspaper , entitled the Red Journal , which was the exponent of the most ...
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... French language ; it has recently been published in both tongues . The almanac is a small pocket volume , containing at present nearly one thousand pages of small type , and recording the sovereigns and royal families of every civilised ...
... French language ; it has recently been published in both tongues . The almanac is a small pocket volume , containing at present nearly one thousand pages of small type , and recording the sovereigns and royal families of every civilised ...
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... French Gothic . The left - hand portion of the elevation shews the mode of fenes- tration adopted . The clerestory windows are small ; and , in order to give more light , the vault of the gallery next the window is kept very high . This ...
... French Gothic . The left - hand portion of the elevation shews the mode of fenes- tration adopted . The clerestory windows are small ; and , in order to give more light , the vault of the gallery next the window is kept very high . This ...
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... French When , however , the style had become fully devel- cathedral or church is invariably circular ended or oped ... French tran- septs have almost no projection ; the English ones have great projections - Salisbury and Canterbury ...
... French When , however , the style had become fully devel- cathedral or church is invariably circular ended or oped ... French tran- septs have almost no projection ; the English ones have great projections - Salisbury and Canterbury ...
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Page 111 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 39 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 362 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
Page 55 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them...
Page 183 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London: He was the author of various articles in the scientific journals of the day, and in the Encyclopadia liritannica.
Page 249 - For more than forty years," was his remark to Sir James, — "for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
Page 17 - Hebrews published a Gospel in their own language ; while Peter and Paul were preaching the Gospel at Rome and founding a church there. And after their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, himself...
Page 302 - Fig. 36. growing complexity of shields arose from augmentations granted to distinguish the younger branches of a family, or charges assumed from the maternal coat by the descendants of an heiress.
Page 143 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 56 - GRAY, THOMAS, an English poet, was born in London on the 26th December 1716. His father, Philip Gray, a money-scrivener, was of a disposition so violent, that his wife was obliged to separate from him ; and it was mainly through her exertions that her son was placed at Eton, and afterwards at Cambridge. At Eton, he made the acquaintance of Horace Walpole, the son of the prime minister ; and when his college education was completed, he accompanied his friend on a tour through France and Italy. After...