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The Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

Traill, H. D.
The Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 4 Lord John Russell's Bill was the first invitation to the Legislature and the Universities to enter on that path along which they have since travelled so far and with such increasingly doubtful results. It was the beginning of that course of academic horticulture which has uprooted a few weeds of comparatively harmless abuse to plant and rear a crop of noxious crotchets in their place. It was the i...

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Coleridge (Classic Reprint)

Traill, H. D.
Coleridge (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Coleridge IN a tolerably well-known passage in one of his essays De Quincey enumerates the multiform attainments and powers of Coleridge, and the corresponding varieties of demand made by them on any one who should aspire to become this many-sided man's biographer. The description is slightly touched with the humorous hyperbole characteristic of its author, but it is in substance just, and I cannot but wish that it were possible,...

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Social England, Vol. 5

Traill, H. D.
Social England, Vol. 5
Excerpt from Social England, Vol. 5: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners From the Earliest Times to the Present DayCf. The Dutch map reproduced in Vol. IV., p. 761. It will be noted that New Guinea is still shown as a promontory of New Holland.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.fo...

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Laurence Sterne (Classic Reprint)

Traill, H. D.
Laurence Sterne (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Laurence Sterne Tm: materials for a biography of Sterne are by no means abundant. Of the earlier years of his life the only exist ing record is that preserved in the brief autobiographical memoir which, a few months before his death, be com posed, in the usual quaint staccato style of his familiar cor respondence, for the benefit of his daughter. Of his child hood, Of his school-days, of his life at Cambridge, and in his Yorkshir...

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Lord Cromer

Traill, H. D.
Lord Cromer
Excerpt from Lord Cromer: A Biography The family of Baring, originally of German extraction, but for now two centuries domiciled and naturalized citizens of this country, has for more than half that long period been conspicuous in the world of British commerce, finance, and politics. Its founder, John, son of Franz Baring, a Lutheran minister of Bremen, came to England in the year 1697, and established himself as a merchant and cloth manufact...

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