Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E.,F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835-1840 |
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... Chief Secre- tary , Solicitor - General , and Attorney - General , under the Mulgrave and Ebrington Administrations . The aid he has given me has been limited to the determination of obscure facts , and he is nowise responsible either ...
... Chief Secre- tary , Solicitor - General , and Attorney - General , under the Mulgrave and Ebrington Administrations . The aid he has given me has been limited to the determination of obscure facts , and he is nowise responsible either ...
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... chief of the house of Drummond to the vast estates which then belonged to it in the counties of Perth , Dumbarton , and Stirling . This Sir Malcolm Drummond traced his ancestry through a series of noble names back to the time of Malcolm ...
... chief of the house of Drummond to the vast estates which then belonged to it in the counties of Perth , Dumbarton , and Stirling . This Sir Malcolm Drummond traced his ancestry through a series of noble names back to the time of Malcolm ...
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... chief subjects of study were Mathematics , Natural Philosophy , and Chemistry . His college exercises , solutions of problems , or proofs of theorems , done in the classes of Professors Leslie and Playfair , have been preserved , and ...
... chief subjects of study were Mathematics , Natural Philosophy , and Chemistry . His college exercises , solutions of problems , or proofs of theorems , done in the classes of Professors Leslie and Playfair , have been preserved , and ...
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... chief care was that these certificates should be carefully stowed away . He came and asked her for them , and , to her horror , threw them into the fire . " If I can't earn a better character than that , " said he , " I don't deserve it ...
... chief care was that these certificates should be carefully stowed away . He came and asked her for them , and , to her horror , threw them into the fire . " If I can't earn a better character than that , " said he , " I don't deserve it ...
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... chief being that he had not the natural qualifications to attain eminence in the profession . " Were his nature and energy of such a kind as to justify any reasonable expectations of his distinguishing himself at the bar , I should say ...
... chief being that he had not the natural qualifications to attain eminence in the profession . " Were his nature and energy of such a kind as to justify any reasonable expectations of his distinguishing himself at the bar , I should say ...
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Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R. E. , F. R. A. S. , Under Secretary to the Lord ... John Ferguson McLennan No preview available - 2020 |
Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R. E., F. R. A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord ... John F. M'lennan No preview available - 2016 |
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