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Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 10 of 12 Martinot, (henry, ) a celebrated clock-maker, born at Paris in 1646. He made the clocks for Versailles and the Trianon, and Louis XIV. Highly esti mated his ingenuity and integrity. He died in 1725. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important his...

Excerpt from Laws of Illinois Relating to Cities, Villages and Incorporated Towns: In Force July 1, 1901Denomination whatever, nor shall any grant or donation of land, money, or other personal property ever be made by the State or any such public corporation, to any church, or for any sectarian purpose.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a...

Excerpt from Untrodden Spain, and Her Black Country, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Sketches of the Life and Character, of the Spaniard of the Interior Although, taken per so, they are rather dry reading, yet a certain amount Of interest attaches to the form taken by proclamations, Official documents, ceremonial letters, and the like, differing in different countries. I therefore present a short sketch Of some of those with which the traveller in Spain w...

Excerpt from The State of the Protestant Religion in Germany: In a Series of Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge The following Discourses were delivered in the month of May last, in the discharge of my duty as one of the Select Preachers for the past year, and they are now sent to the Press in compliance with a very flattering suggestion from the present highly respected Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Le Blanc, and the advice of seve...

Excerpt from Among the Spanish People, Vol. 2 of 2 A day at Alcala, even though, as in our case, a very wet and cold day, is ever, to the lover of Don Quixote, a most interesting one. Here, as the bibliologist will remember, was educated the greatest light of his age, Cardinal Ximenes, here was printed the famous Polyglot Bible, here ¿ourished for many years, the one great university of Spain. This deserted City of convents and cloistered st...

Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 3 of 12 Bailleul, (nicolas Louis de, ) a celebrated French law er, descended from the Nicolas Baille who rendered some important services to Henry IV. Of France. In 1677 he became a counsellor of the parliament, and in 1685 the r'ever sion of its presidency, then filled by his father, was given to him, and he came into possession in 1689. He died on the 14th of August, 1714, leaving an ...

Excerpt from Christianity Always Progressive: Being the Christian Advocate's Publication, for the Year MDCCCXXIX My Lord, I venture to address this work to your Lordship, because I am anxious to record my gratitude for the kind interest which you have taken in it, and to enjoy the privilege of thus publicly connecting my name with one which, wherever it is known, is revered and beloved. Let me trust that your Lordship will pardon my boldnes...

Excerpt from An Apology for the Study of Divinity: Being the Terminal Divinity Lecture Delivered in Bishop Cosin's Library Before the Bishop, the Dean and Chapter, and the University of Durham It may be right to mention, that the Lectures for the Students in Divinity at Durham are given in private, and day by day. The present Lecture was delivered in consequence of the decision by the Dean and Chapter, that each Professor should give a Lectur...

Excerpt from Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge at Great St. Mary's: In the Years M. DCCC. XXX and M. DCCC. XXXI My dear sir, Mr. Landor has said in one of his exquisite dedications, that it is an insult to any man to request his leave to dedicate a book to him, because it is a request to be allowed to praise or perhaps to flatter him. The principle is generally, though not universally, true. Yet in acting on it in th...

Pudsey, ein frecher Londoner Straßenhund, ist mit seinem Leben als Streuner eigentlich sehr glücklich und daran gewöhnt, sich um sich selbst zu kümmern. Das ändert sich schlagartig, als er zufällig den Geschwistern Molly, George und Tommy begegnet und ihnen aus der Patsche hilft. Als die Familie kurz darauf ins beschauliche Dorf Chuffington zieht, ist Pudsey als neues Familienmitglied mit dabei - sehr zum Ärgernis des neuen Vermieters Mr. Thor...

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Excerpt from New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 8 of 12: Projected and Partly ArrangedGerbier, (peter John Baptist, ) a celebrated French lawyer, distinguished for the eloquence of his pleadings, born at Rennes in 1725. After a careful domestic education under able masters invited from Holland, he was sent to the college dc Beauvais at Paris, where he pursued his studies under MM. Co¿in and Rivard. At the age of seventeen he took his de...

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Excerpt from The Commission and Consequent Duties of the Clergy: In a Series of Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, in April, 1826 What from the loose writing of some of the Clergy, and the general silence of the body, upon the constitution of the Christian Church, the subject 18 so grown out of knowledge, as to have lost almost universally its influence upon the mind. Ask an ignorant man, why he separates from the Church,...

Excerpt from The Commission and Consequent Duties of the Clergy: In a Series of Discourses Preached Before University of Cambridge Ble, and the result of their neglect is visible also, they relate to external things, and live and die with them. The good or the evil we do lives after us, indeed, and after those to whom it is done, but it is rarely visible, it relates to the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...

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