Dictionary of National Biography, Band 39Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1894 |
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... visiting London with jewels and plate . Henry VIII occasionally purchased jewels from him ( Brit . Mus . Add . MS . 20030 ) to a considerable amount , for in 1531 he received 561. 98. 4d . , and in 1536 2821. 68. 8d . for jewels bought ...
... visiting London with jewels and plate . Henry VIII occasionally purchased jewels from him ( Brit . Mus . Add . MS . 20030 ) to a considerable amount , for in 1531 he received 561. 98. 4d . , and in 1536 2821. 68. 8d . for jewels bought ...
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... visited Evans's station and fired the granaries ; he spent the Friday in robbing carriers on the road to Victoria , and arrived at Peechalba station in that colony on Satur- day . Having successfully mastered the McPhersons at Peechalba ...
... visited Evans's station and fired the granaries ; he spent the Friday in robbing carriers on the road to Victoria , and arrived at Peechalba station in that colony on Satur- day . Having successfully mastered the McPhersons at Peechalba ...
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... visits . The people mustered for the de- fence , but were quickly overpowered . The town was taken and plundered , but was not burnt on payment of a ransom of a thousand beeves , and Morgan was able to send Mody- ford word that ...
... visits . The people mustered for the de- fence , but were quickly overpowered . The town was taken and plundered , but was not burnt on payment of a ransom of a thousand beeves , and Morgan was able to send Mody- ford word that ...
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... visited London , where she saw much of Lady Caro- line Lamb and Lady Cork and met with much social success ( MOORE , Memoirs , iii . 36 ) . At Paris she met Humboldt , Talma , Cuvier , Con- stant , and others , and she paid Lafayette a ...
... visited London , where she saw much of Lady Caro- line Lamb and Lady Cork and met with much social success ( MOORE , Memoirs , iii . 36 ) . At Paris she met Humboldt , Talma , Cuvier , Con- stant , and others , and she paid Lafayette a ...
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... visited in the Bastille by Gilbert Gifford [ q . v . ] Deceived by his feigned ardour in Mary's cause , Mor- gan enlisted him in her service as messenger between the imprisoned queen and her friends ( cf. Cal . Hatfield MSS . iii . 347 ...
... visited in the Bastille by Gilbert Gifford [ q . v . ] Deceived by his feigned ardour in Mary's cause , Mor- gan enlisted him in her service as messenger between the imprisoned queen and her friends ( cf. Cal . Hatfield MSS . iii . 347 ...
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ADAM OF USK afterwards appeared appointed April Atholl baron Baronage became bishop born Brit British British Museum brother buried Captain Castle Charles church College Cornwall council Covent Garden daugh daughter death Dict died Dublin Duke duke of Atholl Earl Edinburgh edit Edward Edward II eldest elected England English engraved estates EVESHAM father Fœdera France French Gent George graduated B.A. Henry Herefordshire Hist Ireland Irish James July June king king's Lady land Letters London Lord March married Memoirs ment Morgan Morley Morris Mortimer Morton Mowbray Mudge Murray Musgrave Myddelton Norfolk Oxford Papers Parl parliament Paston Letters portrait Prince printed Privy Council published returned Richard Richard III Robert Roger Royal Scotland Scots sent Sept Shropshire Sir John Society Thomas tion took translated Wales Welsh wife William William Mudge wrote
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Seite 159 - Verse, as may renew the wonted honour and esteem of our English tongue ; and it's the worth of these both English and Latin Poems, not the flourish of any prefixed...
Seite 60 - He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden kalendar, which instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, &c., and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames near it a most perfect and pure water.
Seite 282 - There is one face of Farley, one face of Knight, one (but what a one it is!) of Listen; but Munden has none that you can properly pin down, and call his. When you think he has exhausted his battery of looks, in unaccountable warfare with your gravity, suddenly he sprouts out an entirely new set of features, like Hydra. He is not one, but legion. Not so much a comedian, as a company.
Seite 269 - The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Seite 340 - Had Prince Charles slept during the whole of the expedition, and allowed Lord George Murray to act for him according to his own judgment, there is every reason for supposing he would have found the crown of Great Britain on his head when he awoke.
Seite 397 - Thistle, The; a dispassionate examine of the prejudice of Englishmen in general to the Scotch nation; and particularly of a late arrogant insult offered to all Scotchmen by a modern English journalist.
Seite 357 - If you have any humanity, pray send clothing for your unfortunate prisoners in my possession. Leave it at a distance to be taken up for them, because I will admit of no contact for the future, but such as is hostile...
Seite 278 - The strangest Adventure that ever happened : either in the ages passed or present. Containing a discourse concerning the successe of the King of Portugall, Dom Sebastian, from the time of his voyage into Affricke, when he was lost in the battell against the infidels in the yeare 1578, unto the sixt of January this present 1601.
Seite 135 - ... men for affairs. He spoke both gracefully and weightily; he was eminently skilled in the law, had a vast understanding, and a prodigious memory; and those excellent talents with which Nature had furnished him, were improved by study and experience.
Seite 32 - Johnson being asked his opinion of this Essay, answered, " Why, Sir, we shall have the man come forth again ; and as he has proved FalstafF to be no coward, he may prove lago to be a very good character.