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482:. Sir Walter James, 1st Baronet resided there, and Crombie bought it from him. It was demolished in 1822, and the site was occupied by Maize Hill Chapel, among other buildings. Crombie disposed of the site by dividing it into lots sold piecemeal. By that time, he was living in the
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Strictures on a Work
Entitled An Essay on Philosophical Necessity, by Alexander Crombie: These Strictures are Comprised in Three Letters, Addressed to the Rev. T. Twining. To which is Added an Appendix, Shewing in Various Particulars the Affinity There is Between Necessity and
613:, now resident at Phesdo House in Kincardineshire; Lewis Crombie, Esq, a Solicitor, and one of the Baillies of Aberdeen; Thomas Crombie, Esq, Major in the 60th Regiment on Foot, and one daughter, Jane, married in 1823 to Captain H.A. Eliot, R.N.",
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A Collection of
Curious and Interesting Epitaphs, Copied from the Monuments of Distinguished and Noted Characteres in the Ancient Church and Burial Grounds of Saint Pancras, Middlesex
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Clavis
Gymnasii. Editioni tertiae accomodata, sive Exercitationes in symbolam criticam, partim, sicut in veteribus extant, datae, et partim a Rev. Alex. Crombie latine redditae.
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History, Topography, and Antiquities of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex: With Notes on the Surrounding Neighbourhood of Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Etc
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The
History, Topography, and Antiquities of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex: With Notes on the Surrounding Neighbourhood of Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Etc
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A Few
Cursory Observations, in Reply to the Strictures of the Reverend Mr. Gilchrist in his Rational Grammar on a Treatise on English Etymology and Syntax.
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From 1796 to 1798, Crombie officiated at the
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Natural
Theology; or Essays on the Existence of the Deity, and of Providence, on the Immateriality of the Soul, and a Future State
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Crombie was licensed to preach by the
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Crombie then in 1832 inherited a substantial property in
Scotland from his cousin Alexander Crombie of Phesdo,
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Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae : the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation
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Letters on the Present State of the Agricultural Interest Addressed to Charles Forbes, Esq. M.P. London
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased: A-J
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A Letter to D. Ricardo, Esq. Containing an Analysis of his Pamphlet on the Depreciation of Bank Notes
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A Letter to Lieut. Col. Torrens, M.P. in answer to his Address to the Farmers of the United Kingdom
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Hazlitt, William; Sikes, Herschel Moreland; Bonner, William Hallam; Lahey, Gerald (17 June 1979).
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The Parish of Fordoun: Chapters in Its History, Or Reminiscences of Place and Character
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Crombie died in York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, on 11 June 1840. He was buried at
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The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical from Hutcheson to Hamilton
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Thomas Crombie (born 31 December 1806), a major in the 60th Regiment of Foot
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The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated
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Scott, Hew; Macdonald, Donald Farquhar; Macdonald, Finlay A. J. (1915).
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Letters to W. E Gladstone (British Library Add 44356 ff 233, 237) (1839)
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An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-century Grammars of English
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Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy
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The Strike, or, A Dialogue between Andrew Plowman and John Treadle.
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Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora
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Ritchie, Lionel Alexander. "Crombie, Alexander (1760–1840)".
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The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers
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Early Responses to Hume's Writings on Religion: 2 Volumes
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440:A Letter to George Grote, Esq., M.P. on the Ballot
245:Crombie then moved to be principal of a school in
968:. University of Toronto Press. p. 8 note 6.
770:GRO Register of Deaths: Jun 1840 I 164 Marylebone
242:, who left in 1778. The meetings ceased in 1798.
1200:18th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland
331:Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated
699:. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
497:was sold on after his death, around 1845, to
343:Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind
293:Letters from Dr. James Gregory...with Replies
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635:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
1046:. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 149.
914:. Cambridge University Press. p. 38.
466:. Grant himself was a school principal in
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962:Mill, John Stuart (1 January 1991).
908:Görlach, Manfred (4 November 1999).
509:Crombie was married at least twice:
279:A Defence of Philosophical Necessity
231:, identified as a Unitarian school.
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1040:Görlach, Manfred (1 January 1998).
567:Peter Crombie (born 2 January 1809)
989:Cansick, Frederick Teague (1875).
870:. H.D. Symonds. 1799. p. 215.
208:. There he was taught divinity by
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339:Philosophical and Literary Essays
180:(1760–1840) was a Scottish
1006:Allibone, Samuel Austin (1863).
813:. Applewood Books. p. 266.
696:Dictionary of National Biography
550:to Captain (later Rear-Admiral)
44:Alexander Crombie, 1832 portrait
1136:"Crombie, Alexander (CRMY813A)"
499:Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet
493:, Aberdeenshire. The hamlet of
385:Gymnasium sive, symbola critica
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1107:. John Rae Smith. p. 250.
938:The Letters of William Hazlitt
833:Gavin Budge et al. (editors),
786:. A&C Black. p. 459.
780:Fieser, James (1 March 2005).
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1084:Richardson, Henry S. (1834).
744:Binney, Keith Robert (2005).
480:Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet
227:, where he ran an academy in
1180:Fellows of the Royal Society
1029:. Library Fund. p. 385.
854:. London: Johnson and Dilly.
733:. Library Fund. p. 187.
649:UK public library membership
516:Alexander Crombie (1784– ),
1140:A Cambridge Alumni Database
807:McCosh, James (June 2009).
564:William Crombie (born 1808)
548:St George's, Hanover Square
381:a copy of the work in 1809.
107:St Marylebone Parish Church
21:Alexander Crombie (surgeon)
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1142:. University of Cambridge.
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995:. J. R. Smith. p. 28.
609:and a Barrister-at-Law of
607:Trinity College, Cambridge
281:(1793). This work defends
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491:Thornton Castle, Marykirk
285:, and makes reference to
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1118:Jervise, Andrew (1885).
1067:Walford, Thomas (1818).
599:The Gentleman's Magazine
543:Mary Crombie (born 1802)
235:was an assistant there.
1195:Scottish schoolteachers
1023:Lloyd, John H. (1888).
847:Golledge, John (1799).
727:Lloyd, John H. (1888).
710:Lysons, Daniel (1811).
690:"Jerram, Charles"
615:The Gentlemans Magazine
273:Philosophy and theology
253:. Among his pupils was
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315:commonsense philosophy
305:In the preface to the
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319:libertarian free will
182:Presbyterian minister
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552:Henry Algernon Eliot
262:St Marylebone Church
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