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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... says Hume , was the unworthy fate of a hero , who , through a course of many years , bad , with signal conduct ... say ( who was his schoolefellow , and of the same forme ) that he little thought then he would have been so rare a poet ...
... says Hume , was the unworthy fate of a hero , who , through a course of many years , bad , with signal conduct ... say ( who was his schoolefellow , and of the same forme ) that he little thought then he would have been so rare a poet ...
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... says Johnson , praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry , and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise . Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness , upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and ...
... says Johnson , praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry , and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise . Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness , upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and ...
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... says Clarendon , " with great sharpness and freedom , which , now there was no danger of being out - voted , was not restrained ; and therefore used as an argument against those who were gone upon pretence that they were not suffered to ...
... says Clarendon , " with great sharpness and freedom , which , now there was no danger of being out - voted , was not restrained ; and therefore used as an argument against those who were gone upon pretence that they were not suffered to ...
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... says Clarendon , all doubts whether there had been such a deliverance , and whether the plot was real or fictitious . On June 11 , the earl of Portland and lord Conway were committed , one to the custody of the mayor , and the other of ...
... says Clarendon , all doubts whether there had been such a deliverance , and whether the plot was real or fictitious . On June 11 , the earl of Portland and lord Conway were committed , one to the custody of the mayor , and the other of ...
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... says Clarendon , whom we have already quoted on this point , " though confessedly the most guilty , with incredible dissimulation , affected such a remorse of conscience , that his trial was put off , out of Christian com- passion ...
... says Clarendon , whom we have already quoted on this point , " though confessedly the most guilty , with incredible dissimulation , affected such a remorse of conscience , that his trial was put off , out of Christian com- passion ...
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