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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... death , to offer the least violence to Ifaac or Rebecca . Ifaac's profpe- rity deprived him of the king's friendship , and having ac- quired vaft wealth , he was defired , without the least cere- mony , to go from amongst them , which ...
... death , to offer the least violence to Ifaac or Rebecca . Ifaac's profpe- rity deprived him of the king's friendship , and having ac- quired vaft wealth , he was defired , without the least cere- mony , to go from amongst them , which ...
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... death ; but upon his deceafe , he felt a ftrange reverse of for- tune under the new king . Abrabanel was in his forty - fifth year , when John II . fucceeded his father Alphonfo . All thofe those who had any fhare in the administration ...
... death ; but upon his deceafe , he felt a ftrange reverse of for- tune under the new king . Abrabanel was in his forty - fifth year , when John II . fucceeded his father Alphonfo . All thofe those who had any fhare in the administration ...
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... death was fecretly refolved , under the pretext of their having formed a defign to give up the crown of Portu- gal to the king of Spain . Abrabanel , however , fufpecting nothing , in obedience to the order he received to attend his ...
... death was fecretly refolved , under the pretext of their having formed a defign to give up the crown of Portu- gal to the king of Spain . Abrabanel , however , fufpecting nothing , in obedience to the order he received to attend his ...
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... death of Terah ; after which Abraham re- 31 . fumed his first design of going to Palestine . The Scriptures mention the several places he ftopped at in Canaan ; his jour- ney into Egypt , where his wife was carried off from him ; his ...
... death of Terah ; after which Abraham re- 31 . fumed his first design of going to Palestine . The Scriptures mention the several places he ftopped at in Canaan ; his jour- ney into Egypt , where his wife was carried off from him ; his ...
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... death of Bargalio , which he filled with great reputation for twenty years . His fame spread fo much , that all the universities in Italy wished to have him , and made him advantageous of- fers ; but he lived so agreeably in Sienna ...
... death of Bargalio , which he filled with great reputation for twenty years . His fame spread fo much , that all the universities in Italy wished to have him , and made him advantageous of- fers ; but he lived so agreeably in Sienna ...
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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.