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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... entered this retreat , he formed such a plan of life , as would have suited a private gentleman of moderate fortune . His house was neat , but plain ; his do- mestics few ; his intercourse with them familiar ; all ceremo- nious forms ...
... entered this retreat , he formed such a plan of life , as would have suited a private gentleman of moderate fortune . His house was neat , but plain ; his do- mestics few ; his intercourse with them familiar ; all ceremo- nious forms ...
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... entered into holy orders . He was brought to court by . his father , and was employed by Charles V. in various embas- sies . He was made bishop of Arras at the age of twenty - five ; and , upon the resignation of Charles , was ...
... entered into holy orders . He was brought to court by . his father , and was employed by Charles V. in various embas- sies . He was made bishop of Arras at the age of twenty - five ; and , upon the resignation of Charles , was ...
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... entered into a league with the elector of Brandenburg , the count Palatine , the duke of Wit- temberg , and other princes , against the emperor . This league encouraged by Henry II . , of France , was more dangerous than that of ...
... entered into a league with the elector of Brandenburg , the count Palatine , the duke of Wit- temberg , and other princes , against the emperor . This league encouraged by Henry II . , of France , was more dangerous than that of ...
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... entered Bohemia , and obliged Leopold to disband his troops . Not content with this success , he so wrought upon the weakness of his brother , that Rodolph resigned to him his remaining kingdom of Bohemia , of which Matthias received ...
... entered Bohemia , and obliged Leopold to disband his troops . Not content with this success , he so wrought upon the weakness of his brother , that Rodolph resigned to him his remaining kingdom of Bohemia , of which Matthias received ...
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... entered at a very early age into the society of the Jesuits , which he quitted for the military profession . After having signalized his cou- rage in the imperial service in Hungary against the Turks , he commanded the troops of Bavaria ...
... entered at a very early age into the society of the Jesuits , which he quitted for the military profession . After having signalized his cou- rage in the imperial service in Hungary against the Turks , he commanded the troops of Bavaria ...
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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.