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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... never made submission , or sworn fealty to England , and to be executed on Tower- hill , which was accordingly done , Aug. 23 , 1305. This , says Hume , was the unworthy fate of a hero , who , through a course of many years , bad , with ...
... never made submission , or sworn fealty to England , and to be executed on Tower- hill , which was accordingly done , Aug. 23 , 1305. This , says Hume , was the unworthy fate of a hero , who , through a course of many years , bad , with ...
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... never afterwards much needed , or much endeavoured , to improve , The next poem is supposed by Fenton to be the address " To the Queen " on her arrival ; but this is doubtful , and we have no date of any other poetical production before ...
... never afterwards much needed , or much endeavoured , to improve , The next poem is supposed by Fenton to be the address " To the Queen " on her arrival ; but this is doubtful , and we have no date of any other poetical production before ...
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... never can approve . There are charms made only for distant admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife , however , his biogra- phers have recorded that she gave him five sons and eight daughters , and Aubrey says ...
... never can approve . There are charms made only for distant admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife , however , his biogra- phers have recorded that she gave him five sons and eight daughters , and Aubrey says ...
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... never inquired . It is the opinion of Clarendon , that in Waller's plan no violence or sanguinary resistance was comprised ; that he intended only to abate the confidence of the rebels by pub- lic declarations , and to weaken their ...
... never inquired . It is the opinion of Clarendon , that in Waller's plan no violence or sanguinary resistance was comprised ; that he intended only to abate the confidence of the rebels by pub- lic declarations , and to weaken their ...
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... never knew how it was discovered . Tomkyns bad buried it in his garden , where , by his direction , it was dug up ; and thus the rebels obtained , what Clarendon confesses them to have had , the original copy . It can raise no wonder ...
... never knew how it was discovered . Tomkyns bad buried it in his garden , where , by his direction , it was dug up ; and thus the rebels obtained , what Clarendon confesses them to have had , the original copy . It can raise no wonder ...
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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.