The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 18Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1909 |
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... writer , born at Harwich in January 1767 , graduated M.D. at Edinburgh on 12 Sept. 1807 ( with a dissertation on pneumonia ) , and was admitted a licentiate of the Royal Col- lege of Physicians , London , on 11 April 1808 . He commenced ...
... writer , born at Harwich in January 1767 , graduated M.D. at Edinburgh on 12 Sept. 1807 ( with a dissertation on pneumonia ) , and was admitted a licentiate of the Royal Col- lege of Physicians , London , on 11 April 1808 . He commenced ...
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... writers . ' He speaks of him as engaged with Carteret Webbe , solicitor to the treasury , in writing against Pratt , the lord chief justice , in a paper called ' The Moderator " ( Mem . George III , ed . Barker , i . 262 ) . In 1766 ...
... writers . ' He speaks of him as engaged with Carteret Webbe , solicitor to the treasury , in writing against Pratt , the lord chief justice , in a paper called ' The Moderator " ( Mem . George III , ed . Barker , i . 262 ) . In 1766 ...
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... writing under the pseudonym ' Malcolm Mac- gregor , in 1777 addressed a scathing'epistle ' to Shebbeare , as 6 The ... writers of the day . Walpole admitted that his pen was ' not without force , ' and Boswell , who was introduced to him ...
... writing under the pseudonym ' Malcolm Mac- gregor , in 1777 addressed a scathing'epistle ' to Shebbeare , as 6 The ... writers of the day . Walpole admitted that his pen was ' not without force , ' and Boswell , who was introduced to him ...
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... Writing in He was the author of : 1. ' Law concern- all the Hands , with Variety of Ornament , ' ing Lunatics , Idiots , ' & c . , London , 1833 , 8vo ; London , [ 1708 ] oblong fol . It contains Philadelphia , 1833 ; 2nd edit . London ...
... Writing in He was the author of : 1. ' Law concern- all the Hands , with Variety of Ornament , ' ing Lunatics , Idiots , ' & c . , London , 1833 , 8vo ; London , [ 1708 ] oblong fol . It contains Philadelphia , 1833 ; 2nd edit . London ...
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... Writing , containing the Breakes of Letters and their Dependance on each other .... The whole making a compleat Body of Penmanship , ' London , [ 1714 ] oblong 4to ; it contains thirty - four plates , and a smaller portrait of Shelley ...
... Writing , containing the Breakes of Letters and their Dependance on each other .... The whole making a compleat Body of Penmanship , ' London , [ 1714 ] oblong 4to ; it contains thirty - four plates , and a smaller portrait of Shelley ...
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Page 229 - Yet faded from him; Sidney, as he fought And as he fell and as he lived and loved Sublimely mild, a Spirit without spot, Arose; and Lucan, by his death approved: Oblivion as they rose shrank like a thing reproved.
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