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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 47: Puckle-ReidfurdPuckle, who resided in early life in the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury, and after wards in that of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, was buried in St. Stephen's Church, Cole man Street, London, on 26 July 1724. He married twice. By his first wife, Mary, whom he married before 1690, he had four daughters and three sons, of whom Burt-on alone seems to have reached manhood. On 2...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 46: Pocock Puckering He encouraged Irish manufactures, and about 1763 established the Lintown factory in the suburbs of Kilkenny for the instruction of boys, chie¿y foundlings, in the art of weaving. Under the name of 'po cocke College, ' the institution is still carried on, on a new system, by the Incorporated Societ Schoo in Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds...

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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 2: Chippendale-HosteChurch, richard william (1815 dean of St. Paul's, born at Lisbon on 25 April 1815, was eldest of three sons of John Dearman Church, a merchant, by his wife Bromley Caroline Metzener, and grandson of Matthew Church, a member of the Society of Friends, whose second son was General Sir Richard Church [q. V.] J. D. Church was baptised a member of the English church at the time...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 2: Faed-MuybridgeFarmer, emily (1826 water colour painter, was one of the three children of John Biker Farmer, of the East India Company's service, by his wife Frances Ann, daughter of William Churchill Frost. Alexander Farmer, a twin brother of her sister Frances, was an artist, he exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere from 1855 to 1867, and is represented in the Victoria and. Albert ...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 52: Shearman-SmirkeIlia portrait, engraved by Bromley for the European Magazine, ' depicts him in a fez and loose coat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pr...

Excerpt from The Impersonal Aspect of Shakespeare's Art I confine my present inquiry to the plays alone, and I ask, Does Shakespeare reveal himself to us there? I do not mean as Rousseau reveals himself in his Confessions, or as Johnson stands revealed in the pages of Boswell, but, say, as Cicero or Horace, as Burke or Shelley, lift the curtain on dominant predilections and prejudices in published words. Do Shakespeare's plays, like Cicero's ...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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