10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTLIMINOUS»
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postliminous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The double prophecy, or, Trials of the heart
POSTLIMINOUS. PREFACE. What is birth but an accident of life ? a fact over
which we ourselves have no control, than we have over the colour of our hair.
Here was a young creature whose virtues created her own distinction, and raised
her ...
POSTLIMINOUS OBSERVATIONS. The obligation upon Christians to devote the
first day of every week to the peculiar service of God, and to the concerns of the
soul, seems to be a subject which occupies public attention from time to time, with
...
John Lightfoot, John Crosthwaite, 1838
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Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818: ultra-protestant ideologue
He followed it soon afterwards with a pamphlet, curiously entitled A Postliminous
preface, in which he explained the genesis of the volume and defended his
decision to decline to present 'an untrue and unfaithful history ... to the public'.
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Thesaurus of English Words: So Classified and Arranged as to ...
I hand, postliminous, posthu- I mous, backward, unpunctual, belated. Delayed, &c
, suspended, in abeyance. Adv. Late, after time, too late. At length, at last,
backward. Slowly, leisurely, deliberately. 135. Intempestivity, unsuitable time,
improper ...
Peter Mark Roget, Barnas Sears, 1854
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Catalogue of the Second Portion of the Very Extensive and ...
Memoirs, by himself, continued by his Grandson and others, with a Postliminous
Preface, 2 vol. portrait, plates and facsimile Phil. 1852 2783 Franklin (Sir John)
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in 1819-22, 2 vol. maps
1824 ...
Clip-P- will eventually overshadow your home with its @r—J luXuriant foliage,
and eminently contribute to make it an object of envy and admiration. Those who
explain great events or influences by postliminous prefaces full of deep designs ...
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The Industrial History of Free Nations, Considered in ...
Those who explain great events or influences by postliminous prefaces full of
deep designs which their authors (never) had in view, perplex and mar the best
lessons history is capable of teaching; but we may err in the opposite extreme: in
the ...
W. Torrens MacCullagh, 1846
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The Bibliographerʼs Manual of English Literature Containing ...
A postliminous Preface to the historical Review of the State of Ireland by Francis
Plowden. Lond. 1804, 4to 38. History of Ireland from its Invasion under Henry II.,
to its union with Great Britain. Lond. 1812, 8vo. 2 vols. History of Ireland from its ...
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American Quarterly Review
That he is not to be envied through the first grand division of his route, may be
understood by the following passage of his first postliminous chapter : — " To a
person sitting quietly in his chaise tongue, by a good fireside at home, or in one
of ...
A postliminous Preface to the historical Review. of the State of Ireland by Francis
Plowden. London, 1804. 4to. 3s. Strictures on an historical Review of the State of
Ireland, by Sir Richard. Musgrave. London, 1804. 8vo. Au historical Letter from ...
William Thomas Lowndes, 1834
