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..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1812 |
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... BACON ( LADY ANNE ) , the second daughter of sir An- thony Cooke , was born about the year 1528. She was liberally ... Nicholas Bacon cannot be ascer tained . It is a more important record , however , that she was mother of the ...
... BACON ( LADY ANNE ) , the second daughter of sir An- thony Cooke , was born about the year 1528. She was liberally ... Nicholas Bacon cannot be ascer tained . It is a more important record , however , that she was mother of the ...
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... BACON ( FRANCIS ) , VISCOUNT ST . ALBAN'S , and high- chancellor of England in the reign of James I. justly styled the glory and ornament of his age and nation , was the son of sir Nicholas Bacon , and Anue , the subject of the pre ...
... BACON ( FRANCIS ) , VISCOUNT ST . ALBAN'S , and high- chancellor of England in the reign of James I. justly styled the glory and ornament of his age and nation , was the son of sir Nicholas Bacon , and Anue , the subject of the pre ...
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... BACON ( SIR NATHANIEL ) , knight of the bath , and an excellent painter , was one of the sons of the lord - keeper sir Nicholas Bacon , and half - brother to the viscount St. Al- ban's . He travelled into Italy , and studied painting ...
... BACON ( SIR NATHANIEL ) , knight of the bath , and an excellent painter , was one of the sons of the lord - keeper sir Nicholas Bacon , and half - brother to the viscount St. Al- ban's . He travelled into Italy , and studied painting ...
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... Nicholas Heath , arch- bishop of York , was delivered to sir Nicholas Bacon , on the 22d of December 1558 , with the title of lord keeper . He was also of the privy council to her majesty , who had much regard to his advice . The ...
... Nicholas Heath , arch- bishop of York , was delivered to sir Nicholas Bacon , on the 22d of December 1558 , with the title of lord keeper . He was also of the privy council to her majesty , who had much regard to his advice . The ...
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... sir Nicholas Bacon was wiser than he seemed . His great skill lay in balancing factions , and it is thought he ... sir Anthony Brown , and answered by sir Nicholas Bacon , " that the latter was decidedly for the title of T the queen of ...
... sir Nicholas Bacon was wiser than he seemed . His great skill lay in balancing factions , and it is thought he ... sir Anthony Brown , and answered by sir Nicholas Bacon , " that the latter was decidedly for the title of T the queen of ...
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Seite 452 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Seite 37 - An Argument, proving, that according to the Covenant of Eternal Life, revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life, without passing through Death, although the Human Nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated till he had passed through Death ; 1703.
Seite 264 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Seite 203 - and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Seite 368 - Pageant of Popes Contayninge the Lyves of all the Bishops of Rome, from the Beginninge of them to the Year of Grace 1555 was a denunciation of every pope from Peter to Paul IV.
Seite 203 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 203 - 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 253 - Aristotle; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way; being a philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man; in which mind he continued to his dying day.
Seite 125 - This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart; and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness until he hath convinced you of the truth of it.
Seite 178 - ... him to allow the Christian converts, on certain festivals, to kill and eat a great number of oxen, to the glory of God, as they had formerly done to the honour of the devil.