"Lond" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Explanatory Notes, Problems and Answers, specially adapted for use in Colleges and Science Schools. With a Preface by Professor F. CLOWES, D.Sc. (Lond.), ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland
... the author was. Perhaps a son of the celebrated William Whiston, six of whose works are advertised on the back of the title-page; and whose Memoirs, Lond. 1749, are "sold by Mr. Whiston in Fleet Street." If the passage cited by J. T. is all that Taylor says of Thomas Whiston, it conveys an erroneous notion of his pamphlet, which from pp. 49. to 70. is occupied by the question of regeneration. I think his doctrine may be shortly ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 • Various
... curious to observe, in this language, the roots of many English words, and it denotes through what lengths of mutations of history the stock words of a generic language may be traced. Lond, skip, flaska, sumar, hamar, ketill, dal, are clearly the radices respectively of land, ship, flask, summer, hammer, kettle, dale. This property of the endurance of orthographical forms gives one a definite illustration of the importance of ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
... Baltic Seas, near Rasceburg in Finland, the needle runs round, if any ships come that way, though [2999]Martin Ridley write otherwise, that the needle near the Pole will hardly be forced from his direction. 'Tis fit to be inquired whether certain rules may be made of it, as 11. grad. Lond. variat. alibi 36. &c. and that which is more prodigious, the variation varies in the same place, now taken accurately, 'tis so much after a few years quite altered from that it was: till we have better ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... publications, I believe, in this country, in the character of REVIEWS were there [Transcriber's Note: the] Weekly Memorials for the Ingenious, &c. Lond. 1683, 4to.—and The Universal Historical Bibliotheque: or an Account of most of the considerable Books printed in all Languages, in the Month of January 1686. London, 1687, 4to. Five years afterwards came forth The Young ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... thelbald his sunu to rice and heold v gear. Tha feng thelbryht his brother to and heold v gear. Tha feng thered hiera brothur to rice and heold v gear. Tha feng lfred hiera brothur to rice and tha ws agan his ielde xxiii wintra, and ccc and xcvi wintra ths the his cyn rest Wessexana lond on ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
... water, and bathed and changed. Six o'clock struck, and found Dr. Owen Saxham reclothed and in his right mind, if a little haggard about the eyes and twitchy about the mouth, and sitting calmly waiting for patients in the respectably-appointed consulting-room of De Boursy-Williams, M.D., F.R.C.S. Lond. ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... in lond Chanaan; And his x sunes Jacob for-an Sente in to Egypt to bringen coren; He bilefe at hom e ...
— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
... (vide Burmann, in loco). "P.C.S.S." will now subjoin such translations of the passage in question as he has hitherto had opportunities of referring to. The first is from The Works of Petronius Arbiter, translated by several hands, Lond. 8vo. 4th edit. 1714. At the beginning of the translation itself there is this heading—"Made English by Mr. Wilson, of the Middle Temple, and several others." The passage in question is ...
— Notes and Queries 1850.04.06 • Various |
