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Biographical Memoir of Mr. Canning, with a Portrait, MIRROR, Vol.

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I have read the accounts of him in the "Memoirs of Eminent Monks," compiled in A.D. 519, and a later work, the "Memoirs of Marvellous Monks," by the third emperor of the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1403-1424), which, however, is nearly all borrowed from the other; and all in them that has an appearance of verisimilitude can be brought within brief compass.

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[Footnote 5: The following passages in Ehrenberg's memoir on The Organisms in the Chalk which are still living (1839), are conclusive: "7.

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They have since formed the subject of an elaborate Memoir by Messrs. Parker and Jones, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1865.]

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It is of Lady Russell, the wife and the worthy partner of this good man, that we are about to give a brief memoir in our gallery of Excellent Women. II.

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The gentle Pr, in a whisper, signified his intention of devoting an Elegy; and Allan C, nobly forgetful of his countrymen's wrongs, vowed a Memoir to his manes, full and friendly as a Tale of Lyddal-cross.

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It was he who connected that memoir with this cabinet, who rediscovered the mechanism, rewound the spring, and renewed the poison.

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The second consists of three close-written volumes of "Memoirs by Horace Walpole" (afterwards Lord Orford), which comprise the last nine years of George II.'s reign.

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The man who devised this mechanism was so proud of it that he described it in a secret memoir for the entertainment of the Grand Louis.

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[Footnote 1: The materials for the biography in this notice have been gathered from Tiraboschi and others, but more immediately from the copious critical memoir from the pen of Mr. Panizzi, in that gentleman's admirable edition of the combined poems of Boiardo and Ariosto, in nine volumes octavo, published by Mr. Pickering.

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"Field's Appendix"Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales, edited by Barron Field, with his First-Fruits of Australian Poetry as Appendix.

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The two works are lying side by side before us, and we never turn from the Memoirs to the Diary without a sense of relief.

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With the former, we have nothing to do in such a memoir as this, and indeed it is difficult to say whether it was in oratory, the drama, or wit that he gained the greatest celebrity.

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See their Memoirs in Challoner, ii.

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And here appears the inconvenience of not having a pamphlet memoir at hand; with such an aid, we should not have to search through six volumes!

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" Lady Byron offered, through Mr. Kinnaird, to advance 2,000 guineas for the redemption of the Memoirs from Mr. Murray, but the negotiation was not brought to a definite issue.

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I may appeal next to General Lacroix, who published his "Memoirs for a History of St. Domingo," at Paris, in 1819.

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There is a copy of that memoir among the archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale; the original is owned by Crochard.

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Moore, when informed of the offer, objected to Lady Byron being consulted about the matter, "for this would be treachery to Lord Byron's intentions and wishes," but he agreed to place the Memoirs at the disposal of Lord Byron's sister, Mrs. Leigh, "to be done with exactly as she thought proper."

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I cannot close these memoirs without a simple tribute to this remarkable woman, who has probably done more to mould the destinies of this Republic than any other man put together.

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I shrank from the great trouble of bringing it up to date because it, or rather many of my memoirs out of which it was built up, had become starting-points for elaborate investigations both in England and in America, to which it would be difficult and very laborious to do justice in a brief compass.

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Are there any memoirs about the date of 1743, or later, beside Bubb's?

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