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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... seem to carry their own dates could have been the sudden effusion of fancy . In the verses on the prince's escape , the prediction of his marriage with the princess of France must have been writ- ten after the event ; in the other , the ...
... seem to carry their own dates could have been the sudden effusion of fancy . In the verses on the prince's escape , the prediction of his marriage with the princess of France must have been writ- ten after the event ; in the other , the ...
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... seems much more likely that he should amuse himself with form- ing an imaginary scene , than that so important an incident , as a visit to America , should have been left floating in con- jectural probability . Aubrey gives us a report ...
... seems much more likely that he should amuse himself with form- ing an imaginary scene , than that so important an incident , as a visit to America , should have been left floating in con- jectural probability . Aubrey gives us a report ...
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... seems generally to be thought unconstitutional , particularly injured . was not however a bigot to his party , nor adopted all their opinions . When the great question , whether episcopacy ought to be abolished , was debated , he spoke ...
... seems generally to be thought unconstitutional , particularly injured . was not however a bigot to his party , nor adopted all their opinions . When the great question , whether episcopacy ought to be abolished , was debated , he spoke ...
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... seems to have been mistaken in relating that he prevailed in the principal part of his supplication , not to be tried by a council of war ; for , according to Whitlock , he was by expulsion from the House abandoned to the tri- bunal ...
... seems to have been mistaken in relating that he prevailed in the principal part of his supplication , not to be tried by a council of war ; for , according to Whitlock , he was by expulsion from the House abandoned to the tri- bunal ...
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... seems to have been that the patriot Hampden was first cou- sin both to Cromwell and to Waller , and Cromwell therefore used to cail Waller's mother aunt , and Waller cou- sin . * This seems a mistake . What has of Cromwell . Yet Mr ...
... seems to have been that the patriot Hampden was first cou- sin both to Cromwell and to Waller , and Cromwell therefore used to cail Waller's mother aunt , and Waller cou- sin . * This seems a mistake . What has of Cromwell . Yet Mr ...
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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.