The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1813 |
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... sent him am- bassador into England . At his return , he employed him to make a collection of his own ordinances , and of those of his predecessors ; which he performed with wonderful ex- pedition . He wrote some works in law : " De ...
... sent him am- bassador into England . At his return , he employed him to make a collection of his own ordinances , and of those of his predecessors ; which he performed with wonderful ex- pedition . He wrote some works in law : " De ...
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... sent to Italy to be educated . During his studies he betrayed much more fondness for history than for philosophy or divinity , yet did not neglect the latter so far as to be unable to teach both , which he did with reputation on his ...
... sent to Italy to be educated . During his studies he betrayed much more fondness for history than for philosophy or divinity , yet did not neglect the latter so far as to be unable to teach both , which he did with reputation on his ...
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... sent to Ballytore school in the north of Ireland , at which Edmund Burke was educated , and although they were not exactly contemporaries , Dr. Brocklesby being seven years older , this circumstance led to a long and strict friendship ...
... sent to Ballytore school in the north of Ireland , at which Edmund Burke was educated , and although they were not exactly contemporaries , Dr. Brocklesby being seven years older , this circumstance led to a long and strict friendship ...
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... sent for ? " Though debilitated beyond his years , particularly for a man of his constant exercise and abstemious and regular manner of living , he kept up his acquaintance and friend- ships to the last , and in a degree partook of the ...
... sent for ? " Though debilitated beyond his years , particularly for a man of his constant exercise and abstemious and regular manner of living , he kept up his acquaintance and friend- ships to the last , and in a degree partook of the ...
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... sent with his regiment to America in the fleet under ad- miral de Ruyter , but returned to Holland the same year . In 1678 he was sent to the garrison at Utrecht , where he contracted a friendship with the celebrated Grævius ; and here ...
... sent with his regiment to America in the fleet under ad- miral de Ruyter , but returned to Holland the same year . In 1678 he was sent to the garrison at Utrecht , where he contracted a friendship with the celebrated Grævius ; and here ...
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Seite 338 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Seite 338 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 332 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Seite 137 - He was once a man, and of some little name, but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Seite 144 - But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy: he has many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling.
Seite 382 - Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The bishop of Salisbury's son * is said to be of the gang.
Seite 144 - ... a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
Seite 463 - Grace to name a day, when he might introduce that modest and unfortu nate poet to his new patron. At last an appointment was made, and the place of meeting was agreed to be the Roebuck. Mr. Butler and his friend attended accordingly ; the Duke joined them...
Seite 463 - When it was known, it was necessarily admired: the King quoted, the courtiers studied, and the whole party of the royalists applauded it. Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part appeared; the curiosity of the nation was rekindled, and the writer was again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon, says Wood, gave him reason to hope for " places and employments...