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], 1812 - Biography |
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... bishop Wren ,. in 1636 , for refusing to read the book of Sports , and other non - compliances peculiar to the times . Two years afterwards he went to New England , and was a preacher at Charlestown until 1651 , when he returned to ...
... bishop Wren ,. in 1636 , for refusing to read the book of Sports , and other non - compliances peculiar to the times . Two years afterwards he went to New England , and was a preacher at Charlestown until 1651 , when he returned to ...
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... bishop of Oxford , who has done great justice to his memory in the life prefixed . ALLETZ ( PONS AUGUSTIN ) , a French advocate , was born at Montpellier , and died at Paris , March 7 , 1785 , in the eighty - second year of his age ...
... bishop of Oxford , who has done great justice to his memory in the life prefixed . ALLETZ ( PONS AUGUSTIN ) , a French advocate , was born at Montpellier , and died at Paris , March 7 , 1785 , in the eighty - second year of his age ...
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... bishop of Exeter in the reign of queen Elizabeth , was born at Great Wycomb in Buckinghamshire , and educated at Eton school . 1528 he went from thence to King's college , Cambridge , where he took a bachelor's degree , but removed to ...
... bishop of Exeter in the reign of queen Elizabeth , was born at Great Wycomb in Buckinghamshire , and educated at Eton school . 1528 he went from thence to King's college , Cambridge , where he took a bachelor's degree , but removed to ...
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... bishop Alley's personal history are given by a contemporary . He was well stored , and his library well replenished with all the best writers ; which most gladly he did impart , and lay open to every good scholar and student requesting ...
... bishop Alley's personal history are given by a contemporary . He was well stored , and his library well replenished with all the best writers ; which most gladly he did impart , and lay open to every good scholar and student requesting ...
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... bishop of Meaux , who was then labouring to overturn the reformed religion , by seeming concessions to its professors . Upon the revocation of the edict of Nantz , Mr. Allix found himself obliged to quit France , and had prepared a ...
... bishop of Meaux , who was then labouring to overturn the reformed religion , by seeming concessions to its professors . Upon the revocation of the edict of Nantz , Mr. Allix found himself obliged to quit France , and had prepared a ...
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Page 137 - In 1756 he published the first volume of "The life of John Buncle, esq. containing various observations and reflections made in several parts of the world; and many extraordinary relations," 8vo, which may be considered in some measure as a supplement to the Memoirs; and in 1766 appeared the second volume. Both parts exhibit
Page 211 - The History of Great Britain, connected with the Chronology of Europe', with notes, &c. containing anecdotes of the times, lives of the learned, and specimens of their works, vol. I. from Caesar's invasion to the deposition and death of Richard' II.
Page 112 - after having been the drudge of his party for the best part of twenty years together, was as much forgotten in the famous compromise of 1742, as if he had never been born! and when he died of what is called a broken heart, which, happened a few
Page 370 - added to the splendour of his birth a great share of learning, which rendered him very illustrious towards the end of the fifteenth, and beginning of the sixteenth century. He was at first addicted to the military art, and distinguished himself by his bravery, although he was unfortunate,
Page 468 - being reinstated in the church, it is not probable that he felt any indisposition. With respect to his. personal character, he is said to have been grave and serious, yet affable and courteous, with good natural parts, and no inconsiderable share of secular learning of all sorts; he was particularly distinguished by his skill in logic, or the art of disputing. Dr.
Page 304 - felt. At another time the friends of Zeno, as they sat at table, were dazzled by the intolerable light which flashed in their eyes from the reflecting mirrors of Anthemius; they were astonished by the noise which he produced from a collision of certain minute and sonorous particles : and
Page 305 - hog (whence our vulgarism of Tantony pig} for which th,ey have great veneration. Some have St. Anthony's picture on the walls of their houses, hoping by that to be preserved from the plague: and. the Italians, who do not know the true signification of the fire painted at the side of
Page 110 - Filius, to mount the rostrum, and divert a large crowd of spectators, who flocked to hear him from all parts, with a merry oration in the fescennine manner, interspersed with secret history, raillery, and sarcasm, as the occasions of the times supplied him with matter. Wood, in his
Page 469 - deeply infected with it; and towards the commencement of the sixth century, it was triumphant in many parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe : but. it sunk, almost at once, when the Vandals were driven out of Africa, and the Goths out of Italy,
Page 475 - alone; that nevertheless this grace is offered to all, and does not force men to act against their inclinations, but may be resisted and rendered ineffectual by the perverse will of the impenitent sinner : That God gives to the truly faithful who are regenerated by his grace the means