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 |
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... considered as the kinsman of Hampden , he was therefore supposed by the , courtiers not to favour them ; and when the parliament was called in 1640 , it appeared that his political character had not been mistaken . The king's demand of ...
... considered as the kinsman of Hampden , he was therefore supposed by the , courtiers not to favour them ; and when the parliament was called in 1640 , it appeared that his political character had not been mistaken . The king's demand of ...
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... considered as the first of his poetical productions . His choice of encomiastic , topics is very judicious ; for he considers Cromwell in his exaltation , without inquiring how he attained it ; there is consequently , says Johnson , no ...
... considered as the first of his poetical productions . His choice of encomiastic , topics is very judicious ; for he considers Cromwell in his exaltation , without inquiring how he attained it ; there is consequently , says Johnson , no ...
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... considered as inferior in poetical merit to the Panegy- . rick ; and it is reported , that , when the king told Waller of the disparity , he answered , " Poets , sir , succeed better in fiction than in truth . " The Congratulation is ...
... considered as inferior in poetical merit to the Panegy- . rick ; and it is reported , that , when the king told Waller of the disparity , he answered , " Poets , sir , succeed better in fiction than in truth . " The Congratulation is ...
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... considered , which gave a great lustre to all he said , which yet was rather of delight than weight . There needs no more be said to ex- tol the excellence and power of his wit , and pleasantness of his conversation , than that it was ...
... considered , which gave a great lustre to all he said , which yet was rather of delight than weight . There needs no more be said to ex- tol the excellence and power of his wit , and pleasantness of his conversation , than that it was ...
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... considered that curve , yet he sent a solution to both the questions , but too late , it would appear , according to the time fixed at Paris , for him to receive the prizes . This however occasioned his publishing in 1659 , a letter ...
... considered that curve , yet he sent a solution to both the questions , but too late , it would appear , according to the time fixed at Paris , for him to receive the prizes . This however occasioned his publishing in 1659 , a letter ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.