Lectures and essays / by Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, first earl of Iddesleigh ...

Author
Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of, 1818-1887 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Edinburgh and ; London : W. Blackwood and Sons, 1887.
Description
viii, 1 l., 465 p. ; 23 cm

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Contents
Do states, like individuals, inevitably tend, after a period of maturity, to decay?--On taste.--Accuracy.--Desultory reading.--On the study of political economy.--Schools and school life.--On nothing.--The closing of the Exchequer by Charles II. in 1672.--Names and nicknames.--Archaeology of Devon and Cornwall.--On distant correspondents.--On Molière.--Appendix: A Christmas charade, 1862. Candidate. Sibyl\u0027s cave. Clerk of Oxenforde. Lines on the Duke of Wellington\u0027s statue. Lines written in his sister\u0027s album, 1842.
Place name(s)
Great Britain Scotland Edinburgh.
LCCN
10012659
OCLC
4826740
RCP
C - S
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