| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1811 - 828 strani
...and to my knowledge, were in the finest preservation. The collector is no more 1 He died in India ; cut off in the prime of life, and in the midst of his intellectual and book-collecting ardor ! He was a man of exceedingly gentlemanlike manners, and... | |
| 1838 - 716 strani
...animals would be a Bufficient check to the practice. POETRY. VERSES ON THE DEATR OP Dn. M'ALL, Who teas cut off in the prime of life, and in the midst of his well -deserved popularity, on the 27th July, 1838. GOD demanded, " Yield thy spirit," He his Master's... | |
| 1831 - 1044 strani
...PEN OF TIIK RKV. DR M'CRIE.] During the excitement caused by the sudden death of a public man, cutoff in the prime of life, and in the midst of a career...has such a deep sensation been produced as by the lecent removal ot Dr Thomson : but in few instances, we are persuaded, has there been less reason for... | |
| Thomas M'Crie - 1819 - 570 strani
...deplored was that of Robert Rollock, principal of the University of Edinburgh, who was prematurely cut off in the prime of life and in the midst of extensive usefulness. His piety, his suavity of temper, his benevolence, and his talents as a writer... | |
| 1820 - 866 strani
...researches to enable him further to elucidate the subjects which those lectures embraced. He has been cut off in the prime of life, and in the midst of his literary labours, many of which we know lo be highly curious and interesting, and in an unfinished... | |
| 1830 - 1068 strani
...public, both as an author and a lecturer, and his premature decease affords a melancholy instance of a man cut off in the prime of life, and in the midst of a most successful professional career. ANATOMICAL EXAMINATION OF THE DOUBLE FEMALE INFANT, RITTA-CHRISTINA.... | |
| 1831 - 1070 strani
...hour. [THE FOLLOWING SKETCH is FROM THE PEN OF THE REV. DR M'CRFE.] During the excitement caused by the sudden death of a public man, cut off in the prime...has such a deep sensation been produced as by the recent removal of Dr Thomson ; but in few instances, we are persuaded, has there been less reason for... | |
| Andrew Thomson - 1832 - 472 strani
...of Dr. Thomson's life. " During the excitement caused by the sudden death of a public man, cut down in the prime of life, and in the midst of a career...has such a deep sensation been produced as by the recent removal of Dr. Thomson; but in few instances, we are persuaded, has there been less reason,... | |
| 1854 - 734 strani
...effects of a mortal wound received'on the 4th, while leading his men to attack the enemy's position. Thus in the prime of life, and in the midst of a career which seemed to afford every promise of honourable usefulness. Granville Loch was prematurely cut off.... | |
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