The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Band 4,Ausgabe 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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... Emperor Michael the Duke " ) . It consists of a preface ( which contains a brief outline of the history of the Roman law ) , ninety - five titles , and six Novellæ of the Emperor Leo . There is little to remark on the arrangement ...
... Emperor Michael the Duke " ) . It consists of a preface ( which contains a brief outline of the history of the Roman law ) , ninety - five titles , and six Novellæ of the Emperor Leo . There is little to remark on the arrangement ...
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... Emperor Honorius , at Ravenna , on a mission , the object of which is not clearly stated . They could only relate and lament the sufferings which Rome had endured , all useful measures for remedying these evils being obstructed by ...
... Emperor Honorius , at Ravenna , on a mission , the object of which is not clearly stated . They could only relate and lament the sufferings which Rome had endured , all useful measures for remedying these evils being obstructed by ...
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... emperor . As the cause of Honorius seemed lost , Jovian , or as Sozomen calls him , John ( ' Iwávvns ) , or ac- cording to Zosimus , Jovius ( '16 ßios ) , one of his ambassadors , embraced the side of Attalus ; and suggested to him to ...
... emperor . As the cause of Honorius seemed lost , Jovian , or as Sozomen calls him , John ( ' Iwávvns ) , or ac- cording to Zosimus , Jovius ( '16 ßios ) , one of his ambassadors , embraced the side of Attalus ; and suggested to him to ...
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... emperor Marcus Aurelius . His name occurs in a Greek in- scription on the reverse of three different medals of that period , " Attalus , the sophist , to his own cities , Smyrna and Laodicea . " It appears from this that he belonged to ...
... emperor Marcus Aurelius . His name occurs in a Greek in- scription on the reverse of three different medals of that period , " Attalus , the sophist , to his own cities , Smyrna and Laodicea . " It appears from this that he belonged to ...
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... emperor's friend Agrippa , and to have adopted , according to a practice usual among his countrymen , the gentile name of his Roman patron . No light is thrown upon the difficulties as to the rhetorical Attici by the second passage , in ...
... emperor's friend Agrippa , and to have adopted , according to a practice usual among his countrymen , the gentile name of his Roman patron . No light is thrown upon the difficulties as to the rhetorical Attici by the second passage , in ...
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Seite 350 - I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer, who teacheth me, so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing, whiles I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because, whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Seite 223 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Seite 350 - Bishop of London, published an answer to Knox, under the title of An Harbour for Faithful and true Subjects, against the late Blown Blast, concerning the government of Women* And certainly he was a thought more acute, a thought less precipitate and simple, than his adversary.
Seite 200 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Seite 352 - Women are of two sorts, some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant, than a number of men ; but another and a worse sort of them, and the most part, are fond, foolish, wanton flibbergibs, tattlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without counsel, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers...
Seite 371 - The Count of Gabalis : or, the Extravagant Mysteries of the Cabalists, exposed in Five Pleasant Discourses on the Secret Sciences.
Seite 174 - ... and that every marriage or matrimonial contract of any such descendant, without such consent first had and obtained, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Seite 353 - of seventy pages, " giving some account of the state of the Public Records from the Conquest to the present time.
Seite 375 - Remarks on the Letters of an American Farmer; or, a detection of the errors of Mr. J. Hector St. John ; pointing out the pernicious tendency of those letters to Great Britain.
Seite 102 - ... and of Barbier may be accounted for by supposing that neither of them had seen the " Nouvelles Recherches" of 1788. (Dictionnaire Universel Historique ; Biographie Universelle ; Voltaire, Correspondance ; Barbier, Dictionnaire des Anonymes, &c. vol. ii. 133, vol. iii. 125, 126; Biographie Lyonnaise, 16.) GB AUDRADUS, who always assumed the appellation of Modicus, was chorepiscopus or rural bishop of Sens, under the Archbishop of Sens, Wenilon, and not a bishop, as stated erroneously by Oudin....