A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Հատոր 1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... Court at Kenfington the Twenty - third Day of October 1755 , in the Twenty - ninth Year of Our Reign . By His Majefty's Command , HOLDERNESSE . BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY ; CONTAINING An Historical and Critical ) ACCOUNT.
... Court at Kenfington the Twenty - third Day of October 1755 , in the Twenty - ninth Year of Our Reign . By His Majefty's Command , HOLDERNESSE . BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY ; CONTAINING An Historical and Critical ) ACCOUNT.
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... court of William prince of Orange , he prevailed upon him to take his fon under him , with whom he continued fome years . John Olden Barnevelt , who prefided Du Maurier's over the affairs of Holland and all the United Provinces , fent ...
... court of William prince of Orange , he prevailed upon him to take his fon under him , with whom he continued fome years . John Olden Barnevelt , who prefided Du Maurier's over the affairs of Holland and all the United Provinces , fent ...
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... court in 1624 ; and cardinal Richlieu having just taken P. 386 . the adminiftration into his hands , and knowing he was an able man , made ufe of him to serve his own purposes . Aarsens died in a very advanced age , and his fon , who ...
... court in 1624 ; and cardinal Richlieu having just taken P. 386 . the adminiftration into his hands , and knowing he was an able man , made ufe of him to serve his own purposes . Aarsens died in a very advanced age , and his fon , who ...
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... court did many fervices to his diftreffed countrymen . The elector dying in 1688 , Abbadie accepted of marshal Schomberg's propofal to go with him firft to Holland , and then to England with the prince of Orange . In the autumn of 1689 ...
... court did many fervices to his diftreffed countrymen . The elector dying in 1688 , Abbadie accepted of marshal Schomberg's propofal to go with him firft to Holland , and then to England with the prince of Orange . In the autumn of 1689 ...
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... court , and would not fub- mit to lord Coke's prohibitions . Being a man of mode- Winwood's ration in his principles , he greatly difpleafed fome of the memorials , high churchmen ; but he had as great concern for the vol . III . p ...
... court , and would not fub- mit to lord Coke's prohibitions . Being a man of mode- Winwood's ration in his principles , he greatly difpleafed fome of the memorials , high churchmen ; but he had as great concern for the vol . III . p ...
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Էջ 469 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God : and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Էջ 87 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Էջ 87 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Էջ 83 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Էջ 22 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Էջ 42 - The object, I could first distinctly view, Was tall straight trees, which on the waters flew; Wings on their sides, instead of leaves, did grow, Which gathered all the breath the winds could blow : And at their roots grew floating palaces, Whose outblowed bellies cut the yielding seas.
Էջ 294 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. VERSES...
Էջ 51 - ... but this even balance of opinion is not maintained in the pagan epitaph which was placed on his tomb : — ' Hospes, Achillinum tumulo qui quaeris in isto, Falleris, ille suo iunctus Aristoteli Elysium colit, et quas rerum hie discere causas Vix potuit, plenis nunc videt ille oculis : . Tu modo, per campos dum nohilis umbra beatos Errat, die longum perpftuumque vale.'2 Meanwhile, a decree of the Lateran Council; published on 19 Dec.
Էջ 80 - Britannia's public pofts retire, Nor longer, her ungrateful fons to pleafe, For their advantage facrifice your eafe ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys, Through nations fruitful of immortal lays, Where the foft feafon and inviting clime Confpire to trouble your repofe with rhime.
Էջ 248 - I now write to give the King an account of a patent I have stayed at the seal. It is of licence to give in mortmain eight hundred pound land, though it be of tenure in chief, to Allen that was the player, for an hospital.