The General Biographical Dictionary, Band 28Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... remarkable , that , when a terrible famine prevailed at Rome , the poor said openly of him , " that cardinal Montalto , who lived upon charity himself , gave with one hand what he received with the other ; while the rest of the ...
... remarkable , that , when a terrible famine prevailed at Rome , the poor said openly of him , " that cardinal Montalto , who lived upon charity himself , gave with one hand what he received with the other ; while the rest of the ...
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... remarkable than in his person : he immediately divested himself of the humility he had so long professed ; and , laying aside his accustomed civility and complaisance , treated every body with reserve and haughtiness . The lenity of ...
... remarkable than in his person : he immediately divested himself of the humility he had so long professed ; and , laying aside his accustomed civility and complaisance , treated every body with reserve and haughtiness . The lenity of ...
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... by Farneworth , folio , 1754 , and which the translator , with justice , calls one of the most remarkable and entertaining lives in ancient or modern history . studied in both universities . Wood claims him for Oxford SIXTUS V 43.
... by Farneworth , folio , 1754 , and which the translator , with justice , calls one of the most remarkable and entertaining lives in ancient or modern history . studied in both universities . Wood claims him for Oxford SIXTUS V 43.
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... remarkable occasion , when a convict at Monaghan , of whose innocence he was well as- sured , was condemned to be hanged within five days , he set off for Dublin , and on his arrival was admitted to the privy council , which then was ...
... remarkable occasion , when a convict at Monaghan , of whose innocence he was well as- sured , was condemned to be hanged within five days , he set off for Dublin , and on his arrival was admitted to the privy council , which then was ...
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... remarkable dearth prevailed in Ireland , and no where more than in Mr. Skelton's parish . The scenes of distress which he witnessed would now appear scarcely cre- dible . He immediately set himself to alleviate the wants of his flock ...
... remarkable dearth prevailed in Ireland , and no where more than in Mr. Skelton's parish . The scenes of distress which he witnessed would now appear scarcely cre- dible . He immediately set himself to alleviate the wants of his flock ...
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Seite 468 - DRESSES AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time ; with an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume.
Seite 86 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved.
Seite 248 - Complaint and those other serious poems said to be father Southwell's ; the English whereof, as it is most proper, so the sharpness and light of wit is very rare in them.
Seite 243 - We have old Mr. Southern at a Gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old *, and has almost wholly lost his memory; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Seite 129 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing...
Seite 334 - ... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well; so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them.
Seite 421 - An Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton, at his execution, to sir Francis Child, Sheriff of London, with the Paper itself.
Seite 215 - I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.
Seite 265 - BATT upon Batt. A poem upon the parts, patience and pains of Barth. Kempster, clerk, poet, cutler, of Holyrood-parish in Southampton.
Seite 276 - Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just. What he thought, he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critic without malevolence, who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults; who censured with respect and praised with alacrity.