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The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N.

The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N.

Henry Duff Traill

A personal memoir of Polar explorer Sir John Franklin, based on family documents and originally published in 1896.
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008

Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008

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Grandchildren of late James Duff Duff, 3rd son of late Col James Duff of Knockleith (ante) :- Issue of late Maj-Gen Alan Colquhoun Duff, CB, OBE. MC. 4 1896, d 1973: m 1935, Diana Frances, who d 2003. el da of late Col Richard Parry ...
The Unity of Plutarch's Work: 'Moralia' Themes in the ...

The Unity of Plutarch's Work: 'Moralia' Themes in the ...

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2002a, 143–5); Duff 2003, 92–93. Cf. also the supernatural ... 5.8 ('the beauty of a hero's statue'): see Duff 1999, 168–170. 59 As noted in ... 2003 and 2008a. Both characteristics will soon be in evidence: for example, when 202 Timothy E. Duff.
Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and ...

Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and ...

Joseph A. Dane

Perhaps the worst tangle occurs in E. Gordon Duff's rather strident critique of Blades, whom he holds accountable to bibliographical standards declared by Duff himself, standards much less nuanced than those of Blades quoted above. To Duff ...
The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine

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The Rt. Hon. A. DUFF COOPER P.C, D.S.O. A/fr- Duff Cooper in Downing Street on the way to a Cabinet Meeting during the crisis of September, 1938. THERE is a romantic background to the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C, D.S.O., M.P., ...
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage

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... W. Peckham, Maidstone, Kent), b. 1891.-Helen Mary (The Old Vicarage, W. Peckham, Maidstone, Kent), b. 1894. Grandchildren of the late James Duff Duff ( infra):— Issue of the late Maj.-Gen. Alan Colquhoun Duff, CB, OBE, MC, b. 1896, d.
Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and ...

Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and ...

E. Gordon Duff

Duff's 1899 Sandars Lectures discuss the workings of the book trade in London during the fifteenth century.
The Dublin and London magazine

The Dublin and London magazine

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Duff he was determined to punish ; but a duel with his former friend was by no means so palatable. After revolving ... himself to sleep. In the -morning he was awakened from a perplexed dream about Caroline, Aodh Dhu, and Tim Duff, by a  ...
Sir Henry Maine - A Brief Memoir of His Life

Sir Henry Maine - A Brief Memoir of His Life

Mountstuart Elphinstone Duff

We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Word

The Word

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The News Chronicle, London, for August 15, 1938, published a photograph of Duff Cooper in the uniform of a Guards officer. In the accompanying letter-press, our contemirorary explained:— The Right Honourable Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C., ...
The Struggle for Europe's Constitution

The Struggle for Europe's Constitution

Andrew Duff

This is the first book in English to get to grips with the European Constitution, and Andrew Duff is the first participant to argue for the rescue of the project.
Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the ...

Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the ...

R A Duff

In this long-awaited book, Antony Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability.
Talleyrand

Talleyrand

Duff Cooper

Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine.
Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement

Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement

Robert J. Caputi

A fourth memoir of those turbulent times was that of Alfred Duff Cooper, whose 1954 publication, Old Men Forget, was the remembrance of Chamberlain's First Lord of the Admiralty from May 1937 to October 1938. Duff Cooper gained ...
Mammals of the World: A Checklist

Mammals of the World: A Checklist

Andrew Duff

The book will be an invaluable resource for mammalogists everywhere, but will also appeal to any well traveled naturalist, including world birders and safari travelers, with an interest in recording mammals.Andrew Duff and Ann Lawson are ...
Alumni Cantabrigienses: Abbas-Cutts. vol. II. Dabbs-Juxton. ...

Alumni Cantabrigienses: Abbas-Cutts. vol. II. Dabbs-Juxton. ...

University of Cambridge

Brother of Edward A. J. (1864). (Law Lists; Burke, L.G., 654; Harrow Sch. Reg.; Foster, Men at the Bar.) C s \ I ¢ DUFF, ALAN COLQUHOUN DUFF, ALAN COLQUHOUN. ' 347.
The Witch and the Dark Arts:

The Witch and the Dark Arts:

Alfred Duff

“Can we walk and talk Richard?” “Very well, but if you collapse again I will have the foulest, most flee ridden mule carry you back to your villa in front of all the town's people,” said Hasler grinning. Henry rolled his eyes, and led the way, making ...
A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964

A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964

Cameron Hazlehurst

SIR (ALFRED) DUFF COOPER, ist VISCOUNT NORWICH (1890-1954) Duff Cooper was Conservative MP for Oldham 1924-29, and for Westminster (St George's) 1931-45. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office Jan 1928-June 1929 ...
Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse

Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse

Todd C. Penner

Duff quotes Plutarch's introduction (Alexander 1.1) to his Lives of Alexander and Caesar, which distinguishes history from ... 14 Timothy E. Duff, Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 14–15.
Saving the European Union: The Logic of the Lisbon Treaty

Saving the European Union: The Logic of the Lisbon Treaty

Andrew Duff

The economic slump, climate change and worsening international security combine to strengthen the argument for the reform of the European Union. Andrew Duff puts the case for change.
Frank Duff: A Life Story

Frank Duff: A Life Story

Finola Kennedy

Celia shaw, a contemporary and close friend of ailish Duff while at uCD, remarked that she 'listened to ailish talking about him [Frank] for years before i knew him'.1 together with Patricia Boyne [Browner], shaw was prominent in student life in ...
Book review: Tim Duff, Plutarch’s Lives: Exploring Virtue ...

Book review: Tim Duff, Plutarch’s Lives: Exploring Virtue ...

Diana Beuster

Literature Review from the year 2009 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Ancient World, grade: B, Indiana University, language: English, abstract: This really entertaining and educating book, originated in Tim Duff’s ...
Early Printed Books

Early Printed Books

E. Gordon Duff

Edward Gordon Duff (1863–1924) was a bibliographer and librarian with a particular interest in early printed books. He was librarian of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, from 1893 to 1900, and Sandars Reader in Bibliography at ...
André Gide: A Life in the Present

André Gide: A Life in the Present

Alan Sheridan

... but of the box of Lady Diana Cooper, the wife of the British Ambassador, Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, currently known in Paris as "le Duff sur le toit"'. Beside Lady Cooper, Cocteau sat enthroned, obviously as much at ease with the British embassy ...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

John Julius Norwich

... ref168; secret party for (1949), ref169;health concerns, ref170; view of Gloria, ref171 Cooper, (Alfred) Duff(later1st Viscount Norwich): character, ref1,ref2; active servicein FirstWorld War,ref3, ref4, ref5;diplomatic career,ref6, ref7, ref8; drinking, ...
The Incunabala print from Oxford and St. Albans

The Incunabala print from Oxford and St. Albans

Michael Gärtner

60 E. Gordon Duff (ed.), Fifteenth Century English Books. A Bibliography of Books and Documents Printed in England and of Books for the English Market Printed abroad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1917), 1. 61Edward Gordon Duff , The ...
The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and ...

The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and ...

E. Gordon Duff

and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 14.76 to I535 BY E. GORDON DUFF, M.A. Oxon. Sometime Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge Cambridge at the University Press CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ...
Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories

Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories

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UPDATE BY LYN DUFF AND DENNIS BERNSTEIN: For an update on this story, please see Chapter 10, "Haiti: The Untold Story." Dennis Bernstein is executive producer of Pacifica Radio's Flashpoints (KPFA in Berkeley, California). Lyn Duff  ...
Annual Register

Annual Register

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HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1867. ENGLAND. Bedfordshire — William Cooper Cooper ,. War — Principal Sec. Right Hon. Sir J. S. ... India — Principal Sec. and President of Council, Right Hon. Sir S. H. ... J. Herries — Alfred Montgomery, Henry Roberts, Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, James Disraeli — Joint Sees., T. Sargent, Wm. Corbett.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...

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