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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... thought to have done the nation and the crown , by the vigorous prosecution of those mi- nisters who were deemed the chief instruments of the peace , was soon rewarded by the extraordinary promotions of first commissioner of the ...
... thought to have done the nation and the crown , by the vigorous prosecution of those mi- nisters who were deemed the chief instruments of the peace , was soon rewarded by the extraordinary promotions of first commissioner of the ...
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... thought proper , on this surmise , to speak in favour of the supply , which was carried by a majority of four voices only . In a day or two he resigned all his places to the king ; and , if the true cause of his de- fection from the ...
... thought proper , on this surmise , to speak in favour of the supply , which was carried by a majority of four voices only . In a day or two he resigned all his places to the king ; and , if the true cause of his de- fection from the ...
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... thought the value of this collection greatly over - rated . In 1757 he published " A Letter from Xo - Ho , a Chi- nese philosopher at London , to his friend Lien - Chi at Pekin a spirited and elegant performance , chiefly on the ...
... thought the value of this collection greatly over - rated . In 1757 he published " A Letter from Xo - Ho , a Chi- nese philosopher at London , to his friend Lien - Chi at Pekin a spirited and elegant performance , chiefly on the ...
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... thought it would shock rather than give satisfaction to an audience . Still I found it so truly tragic in the two essential springs of terror and pity , that I could not resist the impulse of adapting it to the scene , though it should ...
... thought it would shock rather than give satisfaction to an audience . Still I found it so truly tragic in the two essential springs of terror and pity , that I could not resist the impulse of adapting it to the scene , though it should ...
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... thought myself in an ancient castle ( a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with gothic story ) , and that on the upper- most bannister of a great stair - case , I saw a gigantic hand in armour . In the evening I sat down ...
... thought myself in an ancient castle ( a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with gothic story ) , and that on the upper- most bannister of a great stair - case , I saw a gigantic hand in armour . In the evening I sat down ...
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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...