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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... only a pretence , but that the security of the new acquisitions was the real object of this unprecedented supply ; and they took occasion to ob- E 2 WALPOLE . 51 his zeal for its cause when the Commons considered the ...
... only a pretence , but that the security of the new acquisitions was the real object of this unprecedented supply ; and they took occasion to ob- E 2 WALPOLE . 51 his zeal for its cause when the Commons considered the ...
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... object , keeping up the sources of national strength and wealth . He was a great master of the com- mercial and political interests of this country , and de- servedly raised to the peerage . " Mr. Coxe adds , that his moral conduct was ...
... object , keeping up the sources of national strength and wealth . He was a great master of the com- mercial and political interests of this country , and de- servedly raised to the peerage . " Mr. Coxe adds , that his moral conduct was ...
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... object of tragedy . " This tragedy , however , remained for some years tolerably concealed from the public at large , until about 1783 , when some person , possessed of a copy , began to give extracts from it in Woodfall's Public ...
... object of tragedy . " This tragedy , however , remained for some years tolerably concealed from the public at large , until about 1783 , when some person , possessed of a copy , began to give extracts from it in Woodfall's Public ...
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... object of his embassy , and employing in an improper manner the sums he had re- ceived . He went therefore to Rome , where he abjured Lutheranism , and entered into the order of St. Dominic in 1666. In 1670 , he was sent to Paris ...
... object of his embassy , and employing in an improper manner the sums he had re- ceived . He went therefore to Rome , where he abjured Lutheranism , and entered into the order of St. Dominic in 1666. In 1670 , he was sent to Paris ...
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... object of his pursuit was his only relaxation ; and he could pass and repass from fathers and philosophers to Don Quixote , in the original , with perfect ease and pleasure . In the mind of Warburton the founda- tion of classical ...
... object of his pursuit was his only relaxation ; and he could pass and repass from fathers and philosophers to Don Quixote , in the original , with perfect ease and pleasure . In the mind of Warburton the founda- tion of classical ...
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388 페이지 - 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.
77 페이지 - 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.
29 페이지 - 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...
109 페이지 - 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.
322 페이지 - 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...
382 페이지 - 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...
278 페이지 - 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.
14 페이지 - 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.
58 페이지 - 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.