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Reproduction of the original: The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies by Alexander B. Grosart

‘A shepstar’s (dressmaker) son, hatched in Gutter lane’, Davis became an Oxford scholar, a skilled mathematician. The story might have ended there, teaching at the University or schoolmastering. Instead he…

The Poetical Works of Sir John Davies, - Consisting of his Poem on the Immortality of the Soul… is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1773. Hansebooks…

Or if this (All) which round about we see (As idle Morpheus some sicke braines hath taught) Of vndeuided motes compacted bee, How was this goodly Architecture wrought? Or by…

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This biography tells the life story of Sir Humphry Davy, a prominent 19th-century chemist and inventor. The book covers his childhood, education, and career, as well as his personal relationships…

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…