Dictionary of National Biography, Band 26

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Leslie Stephen
Macmillan, 1891
 

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Seite 405 - On the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Value of Pain.
Seite 258 - A Complete Collection of the TREATIES and CONVENTIONS, and RECIPROCAL REGULATIONS, at present subsisting between GREAT BRITAIN and FOREIGN POWERS, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same...
Seite 167 - ... 1. That the kings of England are sovereign princes. ' 2. That the laws of England are the king's laws. ' 3. That therefore. it is an inseparable prerogative in the kings of England, to dispense with penal laws in particular cases, and upon particular necessary reasons.
Seite 188 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Seite 99 - He studies two hours a day, and employs the rest of his time in tossing the pike or leaping, or shooting with the bow, or throwing the bar, or vaulting, or some other exercise of that kind, and he is never idle.
Seite 368 - He added, therefore, that Dr. Hill was, notwithstanding, a very curious observer; and if he would have been contented to tell the world no more than he knew, he might have been a very considerable man, and needed not to have recourse to such mean expedients to raise his reputation.
Seite 13 - Peter answered for him with the insolent remark that there were no peers in England as there were in France. On this the bishops threatened to excommunicate the king's evil counsellors by name. Henry now again proceeded to Gloucester on 2 Nov., and invaded the lands of the earl-marshal. Richard retook his castle, and though he would not fight against the king, his allies, Welsh and English, despoiled the royal camp at Grosin i »M i on 11 Nov.
Seite 291 - Also Vol. I., from the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the end of the Thirteenth Century, 18s. The work complete, 3 vols., 8vo., 21. 10s. BEY. PROFESSOR STUBBS. THE TRACT " DE INVENTIONS SANCTJE CRUCIS NOSTR^E IN MONTE ACUTO ET DE DUCTIONE EJUSDEM APUD WALTHAM...
Seite 253 - I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars, of which the light, it can be proved, must take two millions of years to reach the earth." I really and unfeignedly felt at this moment as if I had been conversing with a supernatural intelligence. "Nay, more...
Seite 56 - In this same time the realm of England was out of all good governance, as it had been many days before, for the King was simple and led by covetous counsel, and owed more than he was worth.

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