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], 1817 - Biography |
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... original copy . It can raise no wonder that they formed one plot out of these two designs , however remote from each other , when they saw the same agent employed in both , and found the commission of array in the hands of him who was ...
... original copy . It can raise no wonder that they formed one plot out of these two designs , however remote from each other , when they saw the same agent employed in both , and found the commission of array in the hands of him who was ...
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... original draught of the Rehearsal . The care of his fortune , which Clarendon imputes to him in a degree little less than criminal , was either not constant or not successful ; for , having inherited a patri- mony of three thousand five ...
... original draught of the Rehearsal . The care of his fortune , which Clarendon imputes to him in a degree little less than criminal , was either not constant or not successful ; for , having inherited a patri- mony of three thousand five ...
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... for his cloud - com- pelling , and two or three more com- pound words , I believe he went not to the original for them , but to some translation , perhaps Chapman's . " select a few more particulars of Waller . Speaking of 24 WALLE R.
... for his cloud - com- pelling , and two or three more com- pound words , I believe he went not to the original for them , but to some translation , perhaps Chapman's . " select a few more particulars of Waller . Speaking of 24 WALLE R.
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... original manuscript . With an introduction by the editor , " 8vo . The MS . came from one of the noble fami- lies descended from him . It appears to be written with great sincerity , as well as precision , and contains many in ...
... original manuscript . With an introduction by the editor , " 8vo . The MS . came from one of the noble fami- lies descended from him . It appears to be written with great sincerity , as well as precision , and contains many in ...
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... original inertness of his disposition . Before be quitted Eton , he had so considerably improved himself in classical literature , as to bear the character of an excel- lent scholar . In April 1696 he was admitted a scholar of King's ...
... original inertness of his disposition . Before be quitted Eton , he had so considerably improved himself in classical literature , as to bear the character of an excel- lent scholar . In April 1696 he was admitted a scholar of King's ...
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Page 388 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Page 77 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 29 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 109 - Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.
Page 322 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt: His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways...
Page 382 - Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature. This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a college living, he could never persuade himself to...
Page 278 - Whitlocked, with his usual candour, never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, "with more •wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, •with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and" -with a better grace in all his -words and actions, than did this great and excellent person ; and b» moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
Page 14 - My Lord, I am a great deal older than your Grace, and have, I believe, heard more arguments for Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; and so I hope your Grace will.
Page 58 - In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.