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Page 448 - That the House do resolve itself into a committee' of the whole House to consider the temporalities of the Church of Ireland.
Page 231 - Regiment of Light Infantry. His career in the Peninsula formed subsequently the subject of his most amusing book " The Subaltern," published in 1825. He served in the campaign of Washington, and was severely wounded at the capture of that city. He fought at the battle of Waterloo, and was again wounded.
Page 358 - A Letter from one of the Scotch People to the Right Honourable Lord Brougham and Vaux, on the Opinions expressed by his Lordship in the Auchterarder Case ;" and " The Whigism of the Old School, as exemplified in the Past History and Present Position of the Church of Scotland.
Page 543 - It has been justly observed by a living writer of the most ardent and enthusiastic genius, whose eloquence is as the rush of mighty waters, and has left it for others almost as invidious to praise in terms of less rapture, as to censure what he has borne along in the stream of unhesitating eulogy, that " no poet has ever had a more exquisite sense of the beautiful than Spenser (a).
Page 207 - Review, a journal which, though supported by writers of great ability, had acquired only a limited circulation. Under its new editor the demand increased so rapidly that a second and sometimes a third edition of its numbers was required. In 1824 he delivered the annual oration before the Phi- Beta-Kappa Society, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Page 372 - ... or steel point for indenting the paper, and it is this he has since used. After great difficulty and much discouragement, Professor Morse in 1835 demonstrated the practicability of "his invention by completing and putting in operation in the New York University a model of his " Recording Electric Telegraph...
Page 369 - In 1758 he was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of the law in Braintree.
Page 471 - System of Education" in the first number. To this review he became a regular contributor; and it was his papers on the anatomical schools which brought the abuses of the old system of surgery so prominently before the public. He reprinted the main part of these articles, under the title of "The Use of the Dead to the Living...
Page 116 - Our residence is not in the town itself, but fifteen miles to the northwest of it, among the granite hills and the black morasses which stretch westward through Galloway almost to the Irish Sea. In this wilderness of heath and rock...
Page 28 - ANDRAL, GABRIEL, a distinguished French Physician and Author, was born at Paris in 1797; studied at the college of Louis le Grand, took his degree of doctor of medicine in 1821, and established his scientific reputation by the publication of his " Clinique M&licale