The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 6

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G. Bell, 1902
 

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Page 23 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Soots. 2 vols. 5*. each. Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses. With Portraits. 5*.
Page 91 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Page 10 - GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and Unabridged, with Variorum Notes. Edited by an English Churchman. With 2 Maps and Portrait.
Page 11 - Historical Documents of the Middle Ages, including the most famous Charters relating to England, the Empire, the Church, &c. , from the 6th to the I4th Centuries. Translated from the Latin and edited by Ernest F. Henderson, AB, AM, Ph.D. 55. HENFREY'S Guide to English Coins, from the Conquest to the present time. New and revised Edition by CF Keary, MA, FSA 6s. HENRY OF HUNTINGDON'S History of the English. Translated by T. Forester, MA 5*. 12 HENRY'S (Matthew) Exposition of the Book of the Psalms....
Page 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.
Page 20 - ROGER OF WENDOVER'S Flowers of History, comprising the History of England from the Descent of the Saxons to AD 1235, formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris.
Page 24 - Antiquities of Athens, and other Monuments of Greece ; with Glossary of Terms used in Grecian Architecture. 71 Steel Plates and numerous Woodcuts. SWEET'S British Warblers. 5s.— See Bechstein. TALES OF THE GENII ; or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar.
Page 17 - Readings at the foot of the page, and Parallel References in the margin ; also a Critical Introduction and Chronological Tables. By an eminent Scholar, with a Greek and English Lexicon.
Page 12 - HOLBEIN'S Dance of Death and Bible Cuts. Upwards of 150 Subjects, engraved in facsimile, with Introduction and Descriptions by Francis Douce and Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibden. 5*. HOMER'S Iliad. Translated into English Prose by TA Buckley, BA 5*.
Page 37 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

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