This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...William was an unnatural son for opposing his father, and espousing the cause of the king during the American revolution. H. P. B. Island Home, Indiana. P.S. See Franklin's Works by.Tared Sparks, ten volumes. The general index will readily refer to the above facts. "The Wish Father To The Thought " (4th S. v. 101.)- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...William was an unnatural son for opposing his father, and espousing the cause of the king during the American revolution. H. P. B. Island Home, Indiana. P.S. See Franklin's Works by.Tared Sparks, ten volumes. The general index will readily refer to the above facts. "The Wish Father To The Thought " (4th S. v. 101.)--Apropos of this saying, the following passages might be quoted: --"Libenter his qua! tinxerunt credunt."--Lactant. Imt. vii. 26. "Libenter homines id quod volant credunt."--Ctesar, Dt BeUo Gallico, iii. 18. rrc, uirtp piAci iv rols ToioiirSe," ov yivtvffKorrts ret uvra To fidXurra Kati' j)5oWjy fftpttrtv etxaoy.--Arrian, Anab. vii. 1, 3. "Sed id quod volant, credunt quoque."--Quintil. Itat. Ornt. vi. 2, 5. "It a placide ab senatn responsum est, nt minus credi de criminibus, quia nollent ea vera esse, appareret."--Livy, vi. 21. Many more might be added, but it seems needless to illustrate such a common-place. H. W. Chandler. Pembroke College, Oxford. Watts: Family Name (4th S. r. 318, 410.)--Without taking upon myself the rejection of other derivations, I would ask whether the German name Walther, the English Walter, may not be composed of wait, strong, and herr, lord? John Hoskyns-alrahall. Combe Vicarage, near Woodstock. Hadleiqh Castle, Essex (4th S. vi. 233.)--This name, I conclude, is equal to Highfield, and must, 1 think, have an older foundation than that of Hubert de Burgh, temp. King John, though the record thereof be now lost. Some of the lower arches seem to me of Roman construction, and to show the presence of red Roman brick or tiles. 'Roman coins, &c, are found at the port called Leigh, lower down on the banks of the river; and near by was a Roman lighthouse, as indicat...
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