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], 1814 |
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... sent out to keep sheep in the fields ; and , having a natural inclination for design , he used to amuse himself with drawing his flock after the life upon sand , in the best man- ner he could . Cimabue travelling once that way , found ...
... sent out to keep sheep in the fields ; and , having a natural inclination for design , he used to amuse himself with drawing his flock after the life upon sand , in the best man- ner he could . Cimabue travelling once that way , found ...
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... sent for him to Rome . Here he painted many pieces , and amongst the rest a ship of Mosaic work , which is over the three gates of the portico , in the entrance to St. Peter's church , and is known to painters by the name of Giotto's ...
... sent for him to Rome . Here he painted many pieces , and amongst the rest a ship of Mosaic work , which is over the three gates of the portico , in the entrance to St. Peter's church , and is known to painters by the name of Giotto's ...
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... sent in 1612 to Jena , where he was admitted to the degree of D. D. and was made professor of divinity . He was also appointed superintendant of the churches and schools in the duchy of Saxe - Gotha , and exercised the duties of these ...
... sent in 1612 to Jena , where he was admitted to the degree of D. D. and was made professor of divinity . He was also appointed superintendant of the churches and schools in the duchy of Saxe - Gotha , and exercised the duties of these ...
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... sent to Kislar during his confinement , and the others were not without great difficulty rescued from the hands of the barbarians . The empress Catherine , would have rescued him by force , but this was rendered impossible at that time ...
... sent to Kislar during his confinement , and the others were not without great difficulty rescued from the hands of the barbarians . The empress Catherine , would have rescued him by force , but this was rendered impossible at that time ...
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... sent to Toul to instruct the young men of his order in these sciences . In the mean Ath . Ox . vol . II . - Dodd's Church History . - Granger . - Wilson's Hist , of Merchant Taylors ' School . time his extreme partiality to the Greek ...
... sent to Toul to instruct the young men of his order in these sciences . In the mean Ath . Ox . vol . II . - Dodd's Church History . - Granger . - Wilson's Hist , of Merchant Taylors ' School . time his extreme partiality to the Greek ...
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Seite 318 - 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 149 - A New and Full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament.
Seite 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Seite 317 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye 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.
Seite 318 - ... 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...
Seite 60 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Seite 404 - In those very writings which Grotius is gravely blamed for having quoted. The usages and laws of nations, the events of history, the opinions of philosophers, the sentiments of orators and poets, as well as the observation of common life, are, in truth, the materials out of which the science of morality is formed ; and those who neglect them are justly chargeable with a vain attempt to philosophize without regard to fact and experience, the sole foundation of all true philosophy.
Seite 169 - Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats.
Seite 309 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.