English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century, Volume 2Maggs Bros., 1928 - 876 pages |
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... sold at the sign of the Crane in St. Pauls Church- yard , 1671 . £ 7 10S Basil Valentine was a celebrated German writer on chemistry and alchemy , born about 1410. His works had a high reputation among his contemporaries . The above ...
... sold at the sign of the Crane in St. Pauls Church- yard , 1671 . £ 7 10S Basil Valentine was a celebrated German writer on chemistry and alchemy , born about 1410. His works had a high reputation among his contemporaries . The above ...
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... sold at the West doore of Paules , 1599 . £ 84 Very fine copy of the First Edition . One of the most popular of the Elizabethan collections of Maxims from the Philosophers . A collection of moral sayings gathered from classical authors ...
... sold at the West doore of Paules , 1599 . £ 84 Very fine copy of the First Edition . One of the most popular of the Elizabethan collections of Maxims from the Philosophers . A collection of moral sayings gathered from classical authors ...
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... Sold by John Nutt near Stationers- Hall , 1702 . £ 4 4s 58 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND'S JOY ON THE HAPPY ACCESSION OF HER MOST SACRED MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE , TO THE THRONE . Pub- lished on the Glorious Day of Her Coronation ( in Verse ) . FIRST ...
... Sold by John Nutt near Stationers- Hall , 1702 . £ 4 4s 58 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND'S JOY ON THE HAPPY ACCESSION OF HER MOST SACRED MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE , TO THE THRONE . Pub- lished on the Glorious Day of Her Coronation ( in Verse ) . FIRST ...
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... sold by auction realized 850 dollars in 1921 . 76 JAMES IST COPY . Trans- POLITIQUES , OR DISCOURSES OF GOVERNMENT . lated out of Greeke into French , with expositions taken out of the best Authors , specially out of Aristotle himselfe ...
... sold by auction realized 850 dollars in 1921 . 76 JAMES IST COPY . Trans- POLITIQUES , OR DISCOURSES OF GOVERNMENT . lated out of Greeke into French , with expositions taken out of the best Authors , specially out of Aristotle himselfe ...
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... sold by A. Millar in the Strand , 1760 . £ 8 108 This was the first work published by Beattie : it was favourably received , and stamped him with the character of a poet of great and original genius . Beattie . too sensible to form such ...
... sold by A. Millar in the Strand , 1760 . £ 8 108 This was the first work published by Beattie : it was favourably received , and stamped him with the character of a poet of great and original genius . Beattie . too sensible to form such ...
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Page 419 - The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
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Page 112 - A solemn League and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Page 212 - ... you more than see it, you feel it, too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
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Page 696 - Table Talk : being the Discourses of JOHN SELDEN, Esq. ; or his Sence of various Matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to Religion and State.
Page 785 - Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
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