Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 16Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1888 - Great Britain |
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... later colonial treasurer and paymaster - general , which post he held up to his death , 22 April 1841 . Draper was a man of agreeable manners , and , apart from the powerful interest he ap- pears to have had at home , was a popular ...
... later colonial treasurer and paymaster - general , which post he held up to his death , 22 April 1841 . Draper was a man of agreeable manners , and , apart from the powerful interest he ap- pears to have had at home , was a popular ...
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... later editions , but no inference can be drawn from the omis- sion , for Drayton was continually engaged in altering his poems . A stanza relating to Spenser was also omitted in later editions . Some critics have chosen to suppose that ...
... later editions , but no inference can be drawn from the omis- sion , for Drayton was continually engaged in altering his poems . A stanza relating to Spenser was also omitted in later editions . Some critics have chosen to suppose that ...
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... later an excellent five - foot achromatic by Dollond , mounted equatorially , and in 1847 installed in a small observatory , built by him for its reception in his garden ( Monthly Notices , x . 68 ) . With the help of a fine transit ...
... later an excellent five - foot achromatic by Dollond , mounted equatorially , and in 1847 installed in a small observatory , built by him for its reception in his garden ( Monthly Notices , x . 68 ) . With the help of a fine transit ...
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... later career was an unhappy one ( see the account of her in CHAMBERS , iii . 559 , & c . ) 6 [ Memoir of Drummond in Scots Mag . for 1802 , vol . lxiv . , abridged in Chambers's Biog . was transferred to the staff in Canada , and was ...
... later career was an unhappy one ( see the account of her in CHAMBERS , iii . 559 , & c . ) 6 [ Memoir of Drummond in Scots Mag . for 1802 , vol . lxiv . , abridged in Chambers's Biog . was transferred to the staff in Canada , and was ...
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... later began to make up sets of the indigenous vegetation for sale , but previously several of his letters giving accounts of his widely extended jour- neys for plants had been published by Sir William Hooker in his various journals . Dr ...
... later began to make up sets of the indigenous vegetation for sale , but previously several of his letters giving accounts of his widely extended jour- neys for plants had been published by Sir William Hooker in his various journals . Dr ...
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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,
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