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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... character of the champion of civil and religious liberty . On the death of the queen a revolution of politics took place , and the whig - party pre- vailed both at court and in the senate . Walpole had be- fore recommended himself to ...
... character of the champion of civil and religious liberty . On the death of the queen a revolution of politics took place , and the whig - party pre- vailed both at court and in the senate . Walpole had be- fore recommended himself to ...
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... character he is universally allowed to have had amiable and benevolent qualities . That he was a tender parent , a kind master , a beneficent patron , a firm friend , an agreeable companion , are points that have been seldom disputed ...
... character he is universally allowed to have had amiable and benevolent qualities . That he was a tender parent , a kind master , a beneficent patron , a firm friend , an agreeable companion , are points that have been seldom disputed ...
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... character of Henry Fox , then secretary at war , afterwards lord Holland . In 1752 , his first publication ( except some Poems in Dodsley's collection , and a jeu d'esprit in the " Museum " ) appeared , entitled " Edes Walpoliana ...
... character of Henry Fox , then secretary at war , afterwards lord Holland . In 1752 , his first publication ( except some Poems in Dodsley's collection , and a jeu d'esprit in the " Museum " ) appeared , entitled " Edes Walpoliana ...
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... characters , but a contrast of vice and virtue in the same character : and by laying the scene in what age and country I pleased , pictures of ancient manners might be drawn , and many allusions to historic events introduced to bring ...
... characters , but a contrast of vice and virtue in the same character : and by laying the scene in what age and country I pleased , pictures of ancient manners might be drawn , and many allusions to historic events introduced to bring ...
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... character has been formed ; yet , like his prose , it often surprises by unexpected flashes of wit , and epigrammatic turns of expression and illustra- tion , in which he evidently delighted . His " Mysterious Mother " is , indeed , of ...
... character has been formed ; yet , like his prose , it often surprises by unexpected flashes of wit , and epigrammatic turns of expression and illustra- tion , in which he evidently delighted . His " Mysterious Mother " is , indeed , of ...
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Page 432 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Page 293 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 398 - 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 85 - 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 436 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.
Page 20 - 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 392 - 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 169 - Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments, or sketches of a design I once had to give a history of English poetry, you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months before I comply with...
Page 262 - Table, and ordered by the King to deliver his official Opinion on the point ; stated in the most precise terms, that any such Assemblage might be dispersed by military force, without waiting for Forms, or reading the Act in Question. " Is that your Declaration of the Law, as Attorney-general ?" said the King. Wedderburn answering decidedly in the affirmative, " Then so let it be done,
Page 332 - ... praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...