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Edition, 1810, it is said that this is rendered improbable by the account given of Colson, by Davies, in his life of Garrick, which was certainly written under Dr. Johnson's inspection, and, what relates to Colson, probably from Johnson's confirmation. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. v. p. 696. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. v, p. 15 Ibid. vol. viii. Warburton's Letters, 8vo. Edit. p. 369.
Mushet having set up a number of claims for "improvements" upon which claims, we have a right to suppose, he was preparing to take toll from Mr. Bessemer, but which claims, the latter gentleman discovered, in time, were worthless and accordingly declined any negotiations with the individual making them. Ibid., p. 254. Mushet's claims were by this time rarely supported in the periodicals.
Ibid. , ii. 123. Report, p. 67. William Hay, for example, carried resolutions in the House of Commons in 1735, but failed to carry a bill which had this object. See Eden's History, i. 396. Cooper in 1763 proposed to make the hundred the unit. Nicholls's History, i. 58. Fielding proposes a similar change in London.
Lydia Mott to W. L. Garrison, May 8, 1861, Boston Public Library; Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, p. 89. Harper, Anthony, I, p. 215. Ibid., p. 216. Harriet Tubman, a fugitive slave, was often called the Moses of her people because she led so many of them into the promised land of freedom. Ibid. Ibid., p. 198. Anna E. Dickinson was born in Philadelphia in 1842.
But the vehement and awful passion which belongs to manhood when thoroughly unmanned this was the first time in which the relief of that stormy bitterness was known to him! "Musing full sadly in his sullen mind." "There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." Ibid. on Superstition.
Although the hydrometer is seldom applied to domestic uses, yet it might be used for many ordinary purposes which could scarcely be attained by any other means. The slightest adulteration of spirits, or any other liquid of known quality, may be instantly detected by it; and it is recommended by its cheapness, the great facility of its manipulation, and the simplicity of its results. Ibid.
Harsnett, Discovery, tells us that "certain Seminarie priests" got hold of her and carried her up and down the country and thereby "wonne great credit." Harsnett takes it up in his Discovery, 78-264. See deposition of Cooper, in Harsnett, Discovery, 114. Depositions of Somers and Darrel, ibid., 124-125.
Priestley, for example, combined 'materialism' and 'determinism' with Christianity and a belief in miracles, and controverted Horsley upon one side and Paine on the other. Wealth of Nations, bk. i. ch. xi. § 1. Ibid. bk. i. ch. xi. conclusion. Smiles's Watt and Boulton, p. 292.
The Merchant Adventurers tried sometimes to restrict merchants to the Cold and the Synxon marts, which were the most important. Cely Papers, p. xl, and passim. Ibid., p. 74. Richard Cely the younger to George: 'I understand that ye have a fair hawk. I am right glad of her, for I trust to God she shall make you and me right great sport.
Ibid. 256. Hitherto the general officers had been divided between Whitehall and Wallingford House, the residences of Richard and of Fleetwood.
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