Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. Vol. 1, Volume 1

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Educational Publishing Company, 1908 - Biography & Autobiography - 613 pages

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Page 57 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 11 - REMARKS on the condition of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management : in a series of familiar letters, originally published in the Sporting Magazine between 1822 and 1828.
Page 344 - PAINTED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II.
Page 9 - Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved...
Page 414 - Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power or hapless love ; Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more, Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd, within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine ' '.
Page 431 - Observations on Civil Liberty, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America," in which he insisted that a free Government was one of the natural rights of civilised man.
Page 230 - Index to Records, called the Originalia and Memoranda on the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Side of the Exchequer : extracted from the Records, and from the Manuscripts of Mr. Tayleure, Mr. Madox, and Mr. Chapman, formerly Officers in that Office.
Page 320 - He wrote, indeed, pleasing verses and with great facility — -a facility fatal to excellence; but his mind was chiefly remarkable for the fine power of analysis which distinguishes his " London " and other of his later compositions.
Page 602 - An Account of an attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle...
Page 598 - Act for carrying into effect the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State of the Dioceses of Canterbury, London, Winchester, and Rochester; and for other Purposes.

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