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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... reign of James II . Atkyns composed another legal argument , which was suggested by the case of Sir Edward Hales , and was directed against the king's prerogative of dispensing with penal statutes , which had been asserted in that case ...
... reign of James II . Atkyns composed another legal argument , which was suggested by the case of Sir Edward Hales , and was directed against the king's prerogative of dispensing with penal statutes , which had been asserted in that case ...
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... reign of Sultan Selim II .; it was translated into Turkish by Mejdí . Attájí continued this work in Turkish till the end of the reign of Sultan Mürád IV . A beau- tiful MS . of this work ( one volume of 434 pages in folio ) is in the ...
... reign of Sultan Selim II .; it was translated into Turkish by Mejdí . Attájí continued this work in Turkish till the end of the reign of Sultan Mürád IV . A beau- tiful MS . of this work ( one volume of 434 pages in folio ) is in the ...
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... reign of Attalus the account of Socrates , the ecclesiastical historian , who says that Alaric " one day ordered him to go forth surrounded with imperial state , and the next day made him appear in the dress of a slave , " meaning ...
... reign of Attalus the account of Socrates , the ecclesiastical historian , who says that Alaric " one day ordered him to go forth surrounded with imperial state , and the next day made him appear in the dress of a slave , " meaning ...
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... reign of Philip II . , of Macedon , the father of Alexander the Great . Attalus married the daughter of Parmenion , one of Philip's best officers ; and when Phi- lip , toward the close of his life , repudiated Olympias , he married ...
... reign of Philip II . , of Macedon , the father of Alexander the Great . Attalus married the daughter of Parmenion , one of Philip's best officers ; and when Phi- lip , toward the close of his life , repudiated Olympias , he married ...
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... reign of forty - four years . Attalus was one of the greatest kings of his dynasty . When he succeeded his cousin , Eumenes I. , he had little except a well- stocked treasury , and this he employed in delivering the country from a ...
... reign of forty - four years . Attalus was one of the greatest kings of his dynasty . When he succeeded his cousin , Eumenes I. , he had little except a well- stocked treasury , and this he employed in delivering the country from a ...
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Seite 42 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Seite 344 - 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 344 - 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 217 - 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 194 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Seite 379 - SHOULD old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon. The flames of love extinguished, And freely past and gone ? Is thy kind heart now grown so cold In that loving breast of thine, That thou canst never once reflect On old...
Seite 369 - A Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, hitherto undescribed, consisting of five thousand volumes ; including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, DD, and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times.
Seite 20 - ... of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience, who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason.
Seite 246 - Milan library ; but the writing, he observes, is that of the end of the sixteenth, or beginning of the seventeenth century; and from the paper having on it
Seite 365 - The Count of Gabalis : or, the Extravagant Mysteries of the Cabalists, exposed in Five Pleasant Discourses on the Secret Sciences.