Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 16Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1888 - Great Britain |
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... chief secretary in the island of Bourbon ( Réunion ) , and virtually administered the government during the temporary suspension of the acting governor , Colonel Keating . When Bourbon reverted to France , Draper was removed to ...
... chief secretary in the island of Bourbon ( Réunion ) , and virtually administered the government during the temporary suspension of the acting governor , Colonel Keating . When Bourbon reverted to France , Draper was removed to ...
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... chief . Draper , who appears to have been rather vain of his scholarship , and claimed ' very long , uninterrupted , and inti- mate friendship ' with Granby , replied in a letter dated 26 Jan. 1769 , defending Granby against the ...
... chief . Draper , who appears to have been rather vain of his scholarship , and claimed ' very long , uninterrupted , and inti- mate friendship ' with Granby , replied in a letter dated 26 Jan. 1769 , defending Granby against the ...
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... Chief - justice Coke as re- corder of London , and became M.P. for the city . A speech of the usual fulsome kind is preserved in Nichols's Progresses of Queen Elizabeth ' ( iii . 228 ) , made by Drew to the queen in 1593 when presenting ...
... Chief - justice Coke as re- corder of London , and became M.P. for the city . A speech of the usual fulsome kind is preserved in Nichols's Progresses of Queen Elizabeth ' ( iii . 228 ) , made by Drew to the queen in 1593 when presenting ...
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... chief power was re- tained by the Earl of Fife , but as his salary for the office of guardian of the kingdom does not appear in the records after 1392 , it is possible that he may have ceased to hold it and the king attempted to govern ...
... chief power was re- tained by the Earl of Fife , but as his salary for the office of guardian of the kingdom does not appear in the records after 1392 , it is possible that he may have ceased to hold it and the king attempted to govern ...
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... chief of that colony until Au- Royal Infirmary , and once delivering an ad - gust 1807. In December 1808 Drummond dress before Queen Caroline , the consort of George II . Her later career was an unhappy one ( see the account of her in ...
... chief of that colony until Au- Royal Infirmary , and once delivering an ad - gust 1807. In December 1808 Drummond dress before Queen Caroline , the consort of George II . Her later career was an unhappy one ( see the account of her in ...
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Page 63 - But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Page 122 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 210 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 66 - The Hind and the Panther transversed to the story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse,' printed in 1687, in 4to, in answer to Dryden's ' Hind and Panther,
Page 12 - Reasons of Faith ; or, the Order of the Christian Argument Developed and Explained. By the Rev. GS DREW, MA Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Fcp. 8vo.
Page 209 - Dunning and myself,' added he, ' we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise.
Page 339 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 22 - Ixiv. 467) to copies of proposals for carrying on certain public works in the city of Edinburgh...
Page 81 - Some account of the Alien Priories, and of such Lands as they are known to have possessed in England and Wales,
Page 194 - Bibliotheca theologica,' NY, 1883 : upon ethics in Fr. Jodl's 'Geschichte der Ethik,' Stuttg., 1882-89: and upon psychology in LN Wilson's 'Bibliography of child-study,' Worcester, Mass., 1898-1901, and especially in 'The index catalogue of the library of the SurgeonGeneral's Office,