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I have lived for you , and if you could read my heart , I am sure I should have your
pity ; for the possession of your person is become as necessary to my existence
as liberty itself . The liberty I speak of is not that which your worthy father has ...
I have lived for you , and if you could read my heart , I am sure I should have your
pity ; for the possession of your person is become as necessary to my existence
as liberty itself . The liberty I speak of is not that which your worthy father has ...
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... and had lived upwards of fifty years at the isle of France , bad reported , that
her companion , the daughter of Ramini , having likewise been made a prisoner ,
was sold to foreigners , and that she had certain marks that I was her son .
... and had lived upwards of fifty years at the isle of France , bad reported , that
her companion , the daughter of Ramini , having likewise been made a prisoner ,
was sold to foreigners , and that she had certain marks that I was her son .
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We learn from one of his pieces that he lived under Francis I . from another ,
under Henry II . and it is supposed that he died about 1559 . His published works
are , 1 . “ Le Siecle d ' or , " and other poems , Lyons , 1551 , 8vo . 2 . “ Choreide ,
” or ...
We learn from one of his pieces that he lived under Francis I . from another ,
under Henry II . and it is supposed that he died about 1559 . His published works
are , 1 . “ Le Siecle d ' or , " and other poems , Lyons , 1551 , 8vo . 2 . “ Choreide ,
” or ...
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... age of thirty - five , when she married count Gaspard Gozzi , a noble Venetian ,
known in the literary world for his Italian dramas and other works . She lived with
him very happily , and bore five children , whom she educated with great care .
... age of thirty - five , when she married count Gaspard Gozzi , a noble Venetian ,
known in the literary world for his Italian dramas and other works . She lived with
him very happily , and bore five children , whom she educated with great care .
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Free from ambition , modest and simple in dress and manners , he was desirous
only of a retired life , and at Paris he lived as he had done in the country , in the
midst of his books . This study produced , successively , 1 . “ Le Deisme refuté par
...
Free from ambition , modest and simple in dress and manners , he was desirous
only of a retired life , and at Paris he lived as he had done in the country , in the
midst of his books . This study produced , successively , 1 . “ Le Deisme refuté par
...
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Seite 58 - A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 •'[ Fothergill, John].
Seite 62 - Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of TAR WATER...
Seite 255 - The effect of certaine Sermons touching the full Redemption of Mankind by the death and bloud of Christ Jesus ; wherein...
Seite 308 - In the preamble of this act (which passed the legislature), a conviction was expressed, that ' if many offenders convicted of crimes for which transportation has been usually inflicted, were ordered to solitary confinement, accompanied by well regulated labour and religious instruction, it might be the means, under Providence, not only of deterring others from the commission of the like crimes, but also of reforming the individuals and inuring them to habits of industry.
Seite 492 - You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Seite 63 - As to his person, he was a handsome man, with a countenance full of meaning and benignity, remarkable for great strength of limbs, and, till his sedentary life impaired it, of a very robust constitution.
Seite 176 - Could how Betterton spoke be as easily known as what he spoke, then might you see the muse of Shakspeare in her triumph, with all her beauties in their best array, rising into real life and charming her beholders.
Seite 178 - Cassius, in your looks ! &c. Not but in some part of this scene, where he reproaches Cassius, his temper is not under this suppression, but opens into that warmth which becomes a man of virtue ; yet this is that hasty spark of anger, which Brutus himself endeavours to excuse.
Seite 55 - Berkeley; and indeed most of the writings of that very ingenious author form the best lessons of scepticism, which are to be found either among the ancient or modern philosophers, Bayle not excepted. He professes, however, in his title-page (and undoubtedly with great truth) to have composed his book against the sceptics as well as against the atheists and freethinkers. But that all his arguments, though otherwise intended, are, in reality, merely sceptical, appears from this, that they admit of...
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| Titel | 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.. Band 5 von The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Alexander Chalmers Band 5 von 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, Alexander Chalmers |
| Herausgeber | Alexander Chalmers |
| Verlag | J. Nichols, 1812 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 8. Jan. 2007 |
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