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  • Although Godwin drew on principles canvassed in the debate, and on the work of the philosophes, Political Justice was also powerfully influenced by Godwin's Dissenting education and his involvement in Dissenting circles around Kippis and Timothy and Thomas Brand Hollis.

    William Godwin Philp, Mark 2009

  • Kippis, informs me, that several divines have thus explained the mediation of our Saviour.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • _ (Kippis), v. 210-238; H. Walpole's _Royal and Noble Authors_ (Park, 1806), iii.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • He knew Kippis, Lardner, Parr, and had met Porson and Dr. Johnson.

    The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

  • For lives, see _Biographia Britannica_ (Kippis), v. 199; Wood's _Ath.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • QUOTATION: He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

    Quotations 1919

  • Had they been on the very friendly terms that Kippis suggests, it is unlikely that he would have made so many incorrect statements as to Cook's early career in the Navy.

    The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907

  • Dr. Young and Kippis call her the village schoolmistress, but Ord, who was a descendant on his mother's side, says:

    The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907

  • Kippis says that Pallisser was entrusted with the selection of the ship, and that he called on Cook for assistance in the matter, and the fact that a Whitby-built ship was chosen, of a kind in which Cook had had considerable experience, adds to the probability of his statement.

    The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907

  • If we may trust an anecdote given by Kippis, Lord Denbigh once asked his kinsman the reason of this difference.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

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