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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... next session of parliament Walpole opposed the ministry in every thing ; and even Wyndham or Shippen did not exceed him in patriotism . Upon a motion in the House for continuing the army , he made a speech 52 WALPOLE .
... next session of parliament Walpole opposed the ministry in every thing ; and even Wyndham or Shippen did not exceed him in patriotism . Upon a motion in the House for continuing the army , he made a speech 52 WALPOLE .
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... thing rather than poli tics . In short , I was so engrossed with my tale , which I completed in less than two mouths , 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 ...
... thing rather than poli tics . In short , I was so engrossed with my tale , which I completed in less than two mouths , 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 ...
Page 65
... thing not technical , is Mr. Walpole's . It is a just complaint that he did not continue to improve and enlarge what had been so well received , what will ever be a standard book , and has , probably in no inconsiderable degree , led to ...
... thing not technical , is Mr. Walpole's . It is a just complaint that he did not continue to improve and enlarge what had been so well received , what will ever be a standard book , and has , probably in no inconsiderable degree , led to ...
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... thing he could to affront Walsing- ham ; but the latter , on his return , made a very advan- tageous representation to Elizabeth , of the character and abilities of king James . Hume observes , that Elizabeth's chief purpose in ...
... thing he could to affront Walsing- ham ; but the latter , on his return , made a very advan- tageous representation to Elizabeth , of the character and abilities of king James . Hume observes , that Elizabeth's chief purpose in ...
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... thing relative to the detection of Babington's conspiracy against queen Elizabeth ; and in October was one of the commissioners appointed to try Mary queen of Scotland . In the course of this trial Mary indirectly charged sir Francis ...
... thing relative to the detection of Babington's conspiracy against queen Elizabeth ; and in October was one of the commissioners appointed to try Mary queen of Scotland . In the course of this trial Mary indirectly charged sir Francis ...
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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.