A Universal Biographical Dictionary: Containing the Lives of the Most Celebrated Characters of Every Age and Nation ...Grigg & Elliot, 1842 - 444 Seiten |
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... valuable composition only a ABSALOM , son of king David , distinguished few fragments have been preserved by Eusebius . for his persona ! acquirements , his popularity , | ACACIUS , surnamed Luscus , founder of the and his vices ...
... valuable composition only a ABSALOM , son of king David , distinguished few fragments have been preserved by Eusebius . for his persona ! acquirements , his popularity , | ACACIUS , surnamed Luscus , founder of the and his vices ...
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... valuable letter to the emperor Jus - and died 1485 . tinian , on the duties of a Christian prince . AGAPIUS , a Greek monk of Mount Athos , in the 17th century , wrote a treatise in favour of transubstantiation , called the salvation of ...
... valuable letter to the emperor Jus - and died 1485 . tinian , on the duties of a Christian prince . AGAPIUS , a Greek monk of Mount Athos , in the 17th century , wrote a treatise in favour of transubstantiation , called the salvation of ...
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... valuable work on architecture , died arms to reduce Italy to the obedience of the 1485 . church . This truly great man founded the col- ALBERTI ARISTOTILE , called also Ri - lege of Barcelona . He died 1367 . dolfe Foiravente , a ...
... valuable work on architecture , died arms to reduce Italy to the obedience of the 1485 . church . This truly great man founded the col- ALBERTI ARISTOTILE , called also Ri - lege of Barcelona . He died 1367 . dolfe Foiravente , a ...
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... valuable treatise on trade and commerce , died 1775 . ANDERSON , James , D. D. minister of a Scotch Presbyterian church in London . ANDERSON , James , Esq . advocate and clerk of the Scotch parliament , and author of an able vindication ...
... valuable treatise on trade and commerce , died 1775 . ANDERSON , James , D. D. minister of a Scotch Presbyterian church in London . ANDERSON , James , Esq . advocate and clerk of the Scotch parliament , and author of an able vindication ...
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... valuable work he lived to perfect , but died the year before it was published . ATKINSON , Theodore , chief justice of New- Hampshire , and a delegate to the convention at Albany which formed the plan of union for the defence of the ...
... valuable work he lived to perfect , but died the year before it was published . ATKINSON , Theodore , chief justice of New- Hampshire , and a delegate to the convention at Albany which formed the plan of union for the defence of the ...
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Seite 198 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 185 - Among the rest was a large collection of original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. Richard III. and Henry VII. by such of the Paston family...
Seite 235 - Revisal of Shakspeare's Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
Seite 54 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
Seite 28 - I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality in parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, " God forbid, sir, but you should ; you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the king turned, and said to the bishop of Winchester, " well, my lord, what say you?" " Sir," replied the bishop, " I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases.
Seite 249 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Seite 185 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Seite 185 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's...
Seite 156 - a singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against popery, and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice for it...
Seite 10 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness : it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.