The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Volume 2Longmans, Green and Company, 1872 - Great Britain The volumes include essays on aspects of English history and contain Buckle's commonplace books. |
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... letter lxvi . 8vo , 1754. It is mentioned in Etherege's comedy of She would if she could , end of act iii . in ... letters to her hus- band , dated London , 1680 , in Life of Rachel Wriothesley , Lady Russell , 8vo , 1820 , 3rd edit . p ...
... letter lxvi . 8vo , 1754. It is mentioned in Etherege's comedy of She would if she could , end of act iii . in ... letters to her hus- band , dated London , 1680 , in Life of Rachel Wriothesley , Lady Russell , 8vo , 1820 , 3rd edit . p ...
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... Letter from Rome , 5th edit . 8vo , 1742 , Lond . p . 139 ) . Bray's Histoire des Papes , in 5 vols . 4to , La Haye , 1732 , tome i . p . 30. Stopford's Pagano - Papismus , pp . 153–162 , 1765 , re- printed , 8vo , 1844. Maitland , On ...
... Letter from Rome , 5th edit . 8vo , 1742 , Lond . p . 139 ) . Bray's Histoire des Papes , in 5 vols . 4to , La Haye , 1732 , tome i . p . 30. Stopford's Pagano - Papismus , pp . 153–162 , 1765 , re- printed , 8vo , 1844. Maitland , On ...
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... letter ; and a book , en- titled in their language , Qual cosa sia l ' Antechrist en datte de l'era millicent et vingt , ' which carries us back at least twenty years before Waldo . Another book entitled ' Le Noble Leiçon ' is dated ...
... letter ; and a book , en- titled in their language , Qual cosa sia l ' Antechrist en datte de l'era millicent et vingt , ' which carries us back at least twenty years before Waldo . Another book entitled ' Le Noble Leiçon ' is dated ...
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... Letter , in Tytler's Edward VI . and Mary , 1839 , vol . ii . p . 129 ) . In 1781 , Lord Teynham had such quantities of grapes at his seat at Linsted Lodge , in Kent , that some years they have made two or three tuns of white wine ...
... Letter , in Tytler's Edward VI . and Mary , 1839 , vol . ii . p . 129 ) . In 1781 , Lord Teynham had such quantities of grapes at his seat at Linsted Lodge , in Kent , that some years they have made two or three tuns of white wine ...
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... letters of the alphabet to specify , employed the letter G , which the Greeks call Gamma , and that he did this to show that music came from Greece . See Treretière , at the word Gammut " ( Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary ...
... letters of the alphabet to specify , employed the letter G , which the Greeks call Gamma , and that he did this to show that music came from Greece . See Treretière , at the word Gammut " ( Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary ...
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Page 19 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
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Page 358 - I rather think it was in his face. Much was the hurry and confusion; cloths and napkins were at hand to make all clean.
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Page 186 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state and magnificence, she spoke very graciously, first to one, then to another (whether foreign ministers, or those who attend for different reasons), in English, French and Italian ; for besides being...
Page 185 - At these spectacles, and everywhere else, the English are constantly smoaking tobacco, and in this manner: they have pipes on purpose made of clay, into the farther end of which they put the Herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again, through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head.
Page 160 - For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish.