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The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt: Lord ...

The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt: Lord ...

Humphry William Woolrych

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Etc Humphry William Woolrych. Master's service. " If Sir Edward Coke continue sick, or keep in," said he, in a letter to Buckingham, " I fear his Majesty's service will languish too in those things which touch ...
The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Salmonia, or ...

The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Salmonia, or ...

Sir Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy John Davy. DIALOGUE THE THIRD. THE UNKNOWN. THE same persons accompanied me in many journeys by land and water to different parts of the Phlegrwan fields, and we enjoyed in a most delightful season, the ...
Humphry Davy: Science and Power

Humphry Davy: Science and Power

David Knight

An entertaining, accessible biography of Humphry Davy, professional scientist, inventor, and poet.
Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy

Raymond Lamont-Brown

Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International ...

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International ...

Tobias Smollett

International Edition THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER - - TO BIAS SIMOLLETT NORT ON CRITICAL E DITION |NOT FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES OR GANADA Edited by Evan Gottlieb The Editor EVAN GOTTLIEB is ...
The Royal Society: 1875

The Royal Society: 1875

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1836. 1837. 1838. 1839. 1840. 1841. 1842. 1843. William Murdoch. Etienne Louis Malus. William Charles Wells. Sir Humphry Davy. David Brewster. Augustin Jean Fresnel. John Frederic Daniell. Macedonio Melloni. John Dalton. James Ivory.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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Thomas Graham. Rev. Adam Sedgwick. Charles Darwin. Benjamin Count Rumford. John Leslie. William Murdoch. Etienne Louis Malus. William Charles Wells. Sir Humphry Davy. David Brewster. Augustin Jean Fresnel. John Frederic Daniell.
Art and Money in the Writings of Tobias Smollett

Art and Money in the Writings of Tobias Smollett

William Gibson

By examining the critical remarks and characters in Smollett's journalism and histories, the novels Peregrine Pickle and Humphry Clinker, and Travels Through France and Italy, the novelist is portrayed as fully involved with the commercial ...
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research

Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research

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A collection of family papers relating mostly to the West Indies and to (a) Sir William Stapleton, 1st bart. (d. 1686), including his 'Answer ... (d) correspondence , papers, diaries and note-books of Sir Humphry Davy (d. 1829), his brother Dr. John ...
Humphry Clinker

Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Salmoni: Or Days of Fly Fishing

Salmoni: Or Days of Fly Fishing

An Angler

In A Series Of Conversations With Some Account Of The Habits Of Fishes Belonging To The Genus Salmo. By An Angler a.k.a. Sir Humphry Davy.
Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of ...

Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of ...

Stephen Daniels

This work frames his life in five domains - the road, the country, the picturesque landscape, the aristocratic estate and the urban periphery.
The English Novel in History 1700-1780

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

John Richetti

As Michael Rosenblum summarizes matters, Matt's travels in Humphry Clinker trace “the essential movements of the culture.” By moving through the “vortex” represented by the urban disorder of Bath and London and into rural sociality, the  ...
Collected Essays

Collected Essays

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse. WOLCOTT BALESTIER IT was early in 1889 that, on an evening which must always remain memorable to some of us, two or three English writers met, at the house of Mrs. Humphry Ward, a young American man of business ...
The Navy List

The Navy List

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Name. White William . White William . White William H. White William G. White William R. ba kb White William S. . . Whitehouse Alfred . ... Williams William H. Williamson Andrew C. Williamson Richard Williamson William Retired Lilt. u UN ...
William in Trouble

William in Trouble

Richmal Crompton

In William in Trouble William Brown is back in a collection of ten Just William Stories - now with a brand-new cover look illustrated by Alex T. Smith. There is only one William.
William the Outlaw

William the Outlaw

Richmal Crompton

. . In William the Outlaw everyone's favourite troublemaker, William Brown, is back in a collection of ten Just William stories - now with a brand-new cover look illustrated by Sara Ogilvie. There is only one William.

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