The Dictionary of National Biography, Հատոր 8Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1908 |
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... French by Le sieur De Loigny , Paris , 1647 , GODWIN , GEORGE ( 1815-1888 ) , archi- 4to . The ' Life of Queen Mary , ' newly trans- tect , son of an architect at Brompton , was lated into English by J. Hughes from the born there 28 Jan ...
... French by Le sieur De Loigny , Paris , 1647 , GODWIN , GEORGE ( 1815-1888 ) , archi- 4to . The ' Life of Queen Mary , ' newly trans- tect , son of an architect at Brompton , was lated into English by J. Hughes from the born there 28 Jan ...
Էջ 61
... French . She worked for five years , liberally helped her sisters and brothers , sending Everina to France , and saw some literary society . Here , in November 1791 , she met William Godwin [ q . v . ] for the first time , when he ...
... French . She worked for five years , liberally helped her sisters and brothers , sending Everina to France , and saw some literary society . Here , in November 1791 , she met William Godwin [ q . v . ] for the first time , when he ...
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... French to Cobham in 1595 ( No. 21 below ) , he acknowledges the help he received from him in his troubles . He was a member , like the chief literary men of the age , of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries , founded by Archbishop ...
... French to Cobham in 1595 ( No. 21 below ) , he acknowledges the help he received from him in his troubles . He was a member , like the chief literary men of the age , of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries , founded by Archbishop ...
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... French version of the Italian book of Aonio Paleario [ see under COURTENAY , EDWARD ] , is doubtfully ascribed to Golding . 6 In Harl . MS . 425 , ff . 73-4 , is a verse trans- lation by Golding of Haddon's ' Exhortation to England ...
... French version of the Italian book of Aonio Paleario [ see under COURTENAY , EDWARD ] , is doubtfully ascribed to Golding . 6 In Harl . MS . 425 , ff . 73-4 , is a verse trans- lation by Golding of Haddon's ' Exhortation to England ...
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... French translation of Blackstone , which , though inadvertently commended by the ' Moniteur , ' was angrily suppressed by Napoleon . Long anxious to leave France , he was allowed in 1809 to em- bark at Dunkirk in a vessel bound for Ame ...
... French translation of Blackstone , which , though inadvertently commended by the ' Moniteur , ' was angrily suppressed by Napoleon . Long anxious to leave France , he was allowed in 1809 to em- bark at Dunkirk in a vessel bound for Ame ...
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Էջ 89 - I suppose you desire to know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which I should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret. In short, by a very little practice as a, physician, and a very little reputation as a poet, I make a shift to live.
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Էջ 17 - That the hostile impression was not confined to the courtier, is proved by Butler's immortalising their names in the following couplet : — " Did not the learned Glynne and Maynard To make good subjects traitors strain hard...