A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and Historical, of the Lives and Characters, Labours and Actions, of Eminent Persons in All Ages and Countries, Conditions and Professions : Classed According to Their Various Talents and Pursuits : and Arranged in Chronological Order : Showing the Progress of Men and Things, from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time : to which is Added an Alphabetical Index for Reference, 5권Sherwood, Jones & Company, 1826 |
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... command of a squadron of twelve galleys . With this force he did incredible mischief on the coasts of Italy , and the neighbouring islands , till he was attacked by Giannetino Doria in 1548. To him Dragut was forced to surrender ...
... command of a squadron of twelve galleys . With this force he did incredible mischief on the coasts of Italy , and the neighbouring islands , till he was attacked by Giannetino Doria in 1548. To him Dragut was forced to surrender ...
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... command of his succes- sor . BANDI ZINGHA , or ZINGHA BANDI , queen of An- gola , in Africa , a woman of the most extraordinary character . She poisoned her brother Ngola , in 1627. She kept up a war with the Portuguese , with various ...
... command of his succes- sor . BANDI ZINGHA , or ZINGHA BANDI , queen of An- gola , in Africa , a woman of the most extraordinary character . She poisoned her brother Ngola , in 1627. She kept up a war with the Portuguese , with various ...
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... command of the Netherlands , and made a prince of the empire . He died at Luxembourg , March 21 , 1604 , aged eighty - seven . His mausoleum in bronze , in the chapel bearing his name at Luxembourg , is an admira- ble work . To his ...
... command of the Netherlands , and made a prince of the empire . He died at Luxembourg , March 21 , 1604 , aged eighty - seven . His mausoleum in bronze , in the chapel bearing his name at Luxembourg , is an admira- ble work . To his ...
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... command of a body of adventurers whom he had drawn together . With this band he commenced a predatory war , exacting contributions , burn- ing towns , and planning the most unjust enterprises . He compelled the ecclesiastical princes to ...
... command of a body of adventurers whom he had drawn together . With this band he commenced a predatory war , exacting contributions , burn- ing towns , and planning the most unjust enterprises . He compelled the ecclesiastical princes to ...
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... command . During the next year he assisted in the operations of the war , which was brought to a happy conclusion . The holy league against the Turks for the protection of the Venetians being formed between the king of Spain , the pope ...
... command . During the next year he assisted in the operations of the war , which was brought to a happy conclusion . The holy league against the Turks for the protection of the Venetians being formed between the king of Spain , the pope ...
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485 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
195 페이지 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
709 페이지 - Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months' Travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, some parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands, 1611," 4to; reprinted in 1776, 3 vols., 8vo.
8 페이지 - ... chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those awful sentiments which such a singular solemnity was calculated to inspire.
501 페이지 - WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault. Leave it buried in this vault. One name was ELIZABETH, The other let it sleep with death : Fitter, where it died, to tell, Than that it lived at all. Farewell 1 SONG.
2 페이지 - May it please your majesty, your royal ancestor Mahomed Jehaul ul Been Akbar, whose throne is now in heaven, conducted the affairs of this empire in equity and firm security for the space of fifty-two years, preserving every tribe of men in ease and happiness...
237 페이지 - Minchin, an amiable lady, by whom he had two sons, who died young, and a daughter who long survived him. At the ejection of the...
727 페이지 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
705 페이지 - Wood's character of him is, that " he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity.
3 페이지 - Distinctions of colour are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence. In your temples, to his name the voice is raised in prayer : in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still he is the object of adoration.