The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Band 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 |
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... Italy , with Rome . At length , that arrogant pontiff Gregory VII . , raised to the popedom in the year 1073 , not only claimed , but exercised the right of excommunicating and deposing sovereigns , by invoking their subjects to take ...
... Italy , with Rome . At length , that arrogant pontiff Gregory VII . , raised to the popedom in the year 1073 , not only claimed , but exercised the right of excommunicating and deposing sovereigns , by invoking their subjects to take ...
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... Italy , and crossed both the Alps and Appenines . In these excursions , he often witnessed pheno- mena not uncommon in the regions just alluded to ; for more than once he beheld a thunder - storm bursting under his feet ! His apparatus ...
... Italy , and crossed both the Alps and Appenines . In these excursions , he often witnessed pheno- mena not uncommon in the regions just alluded to ; for more than once he beheld a thunder - storm bursting under his feet ! His apparatus ...
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... Italy , and some of the islands of the Mediterranean . In the course of these voyages and journeys , he was introduced to the first order of society ; and it is evident , indeed , that every attention and information possible to be ...
... Italy , and some of the islands of the Mediterranean . In the course of these voyages and journeys , he was introduced to the first order of society ; and it is evident , indeed , that every attention and information possible to be ...
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... Italy , leads our little band . This party , I think , constitutes one principal part of the pleasure we enjoy at Naples . We have also some very agreeable society amongst ourselves , though we cannot boast of much of that with the ...
... Italy , leads our little band . This party , I think , constitutes one principal part of the pleasure we enjoy at Naples . We have also some very agreeable society amongst ourselves , though we cannot boast of much of that with the ...
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... Italians , partly because there then were no inns on the island , and partly because many of the roads lay over dangerous precipices , or through bogs and forests , infested with the most resolute and daring banditti in Europe . However ...
... Italians , partly because there then were no inns on the island , and partly because many of the roads lay over dangerous precipices , or through bogs and forests , infested with the most resolute and daring banditti in Europe . However ...
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Seite 42 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Seite 213 - And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
Seite 314 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Seite 393 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Seite 37 - Memoirs of the different Rebellions in Ireland from the arrival of the English, with a particular detail of that which broke out the...
Seite 296 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant...
Seite 297 - The many rend the skies with loud applause; So love was crown'd, but music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair, Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
Seite 396 - But though he took a considerable share of the conversation, he rarely suggested the topics on which it was to turn, but readily and quietly took up whatever was presented by those around...
Seite 393 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments; and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labors of after generations.
Seite 394 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chymistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.