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Page 171
... Hume's paper in Liverpool Lit. and Philos . Soc.'s Proc . of 13 Nov. 1848 , and criticism upon it in Atheneum of 15 Dec. 1849 ; Chaucer's Cant . Tales , Prioress's Tale , p . 102 , ed . Tyrwhitt ; Marlowe's Jew of Malta , act iii . p ...
... Hume's paper in Liverpool Lit. and Philos . Soc.'s Proc . of 13 Nov. 1848 , and criticism upon it in Atheneum of 15 Dec. 1849 ; Chaucer's Cant . Tales , Prioress's Tale , p . 102 , ed . Tyrwhitt ; Marlowe's Jew of Malta , act iii . p ...
Page 188
... and in the same year succeeded to the family living of Hardwick . His chief work , the continuation of Hume and Smollett's 1 HUGHES , WILLIAM ( 1803–1861 ) , legal writer 188 Hughes Oliver Twist. The Boston Athenæum pos- ...
... and in the same year succeeded to the family living of Hardwick . His chief work , the continuation of Hume and Smollett's 1 HUGHES , WILLIAM ( 1803–1861 ) , legal writer 188 Hughes Oliver Twist. The Boston Athenæum pos- ...
Page 207
... - Center's Mag .. Charches of Sincenformity ses the Merse with A. G. HAM 1749-1838 ) , 1 St Airsham Hume , aving married and youngest reputation as a representative of pert and cunning chambermaids , Humberston Humberston 206.
... - Center's Mag .. Charches of Sincenformity ses the Merse with A. G. HAM 1749-1838 ) , 1 St Airsham Hume , aving married and youngest reputation as a representative of pert and cunning chambermaids , Humberston Humberston 206.
Page 207
... Hume , of Scot- escent , was born at Hillsborough , co . Vi , Ireland , on 9 Feb. 1814. He was cated at the Royal ... Hume by Reynolds , and iv Hume by Cosway . The latter ved by Valentine Green in 1783 , 173 John Jones and in 1791 C. H. ...
... Hume , of Scot- escent , was born at Hillsborough , co . Vi , Ireland , on 9 Feb. 1814. He was cated at the Royal ... Hume by Reynolds , and iv Hume by Cosway . The latter ved by Valentine Green in 1783 , 173 John Jones and in 1791 C. H. ...
Page 208
... HUME . [ See also HOME . ] HUME , ABRAHAM ( 1616 ? -1707 ) , ejected divine , a native of the Merse , Ber- wickshire , was born about 1616. He was edu- cated at St. Andrews , where he graduated M.A. Leaving the university ... Hume Hume 208.
... HUME . [ See also HOME . ] HUME , ABRAHAM ( 1616 ? -1707 ) , ejected divine , a native of the Merse , Ber- wickshire , was born about 1616. He was edu- cated at St. Andrews , where he graduated M.A. Leaving the university ... Hume Hume 208.
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Page 196 - Hume been to the law of Scotland, neither wandering into fanciful and abstruse disquisitions, which are the more proper subject of the antiquary, nor satisfied with presenting to his pupils a dry and undigested detail of the laws in their present state, but combining the past state of our legal enactments with the present, and tracing clearly and judiciously the changes which took place, and the causes which led to them.