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19 hours ago · Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner FBA (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius ...
19 hours ago · Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (first published 1651, Penguin 1985) 268 Gareth Jones, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009) K Zweigert and H Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law (Tony Weir tr, 3rd edn, OUP 1998)
19 hours ago · William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner . The son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton , he served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and Hindon in 1790–1795 and 1806–1820.
