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Notes from a Diary, 1886-1888

Notes from a Diary, 1886-1888

Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Sir Henry Maine - A Brief Memoir of His Life

Sir Henry Maine - A Brief Memoir of His Life

Mountstuart Elphinstone Duff

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Ernest Renan, in Memoriam

Ernest Renan, in Memoriam

Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
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  ...
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.
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 ...

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