A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Band 1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... born at Hay , in Berne , in the year 1658 , as Niceron affirms in his hiftory of illuftrious men , though fome fay he was born in 1654. He studied at Saumur , at Paris , and at Sedan , at which laft place he took the degree of doctor in ...
... born at Hay , in Berne , in the year 1658 , as Niceron affirms in his hiftory of illuftrious men , though fome fay he was born in 1654. He studied at Saumur , at Paris , and at Sedan , at which laft place he took the degree of doctor in ...
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... born October 29. 1562 , at Guilford , in Surrey ( a ) . He received the rudiments of his education at the place of his nativity , under the care of Mr. Francis Taylour , Mafter of the free- fchool at Guilford , founded by Edward VI ...
... born October 29. 1562 , at Guilford , in Surrey ( a ) . He received the rudiments of his education at the place of his nativity , under the care of Mr. Francis Taylour , Mafter of the free- fchool at Guilford , founded by Edward VI ...
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... born of the fame father , though of a different mother , for which we have the authority of fcripture . Jofephus ( according to M. Bayle ) falsely sup- poses that Abraham declared Sarah was his brother's daugh- ter , and that upon the ...
... born of the fame father , though of a different mother , for which we have the authority of fcripture . Jofephus ( according to M. Bayle ) falsely sup- poses that Abraham declared Sarah was his brother's daugh- ter , and that upon the ...
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... born at Lisbon in the year 1437 , of a family who boafted their defcent from king David . He raifed himfelf confiderably at the court of Alphonfo V. king of Portugal , and was honoured with very high offices , which he enjoyed till this ...
... born at Lisbon in the year 1437 , of a family who boafted their defcent from king David . He raifed himfelf confiderably at the court of Alphonfo V. king of Portugal , and was honoured with very high offices , which he enjoyed till this ...
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... born in the city of Ur , in Chaldea , which he and his father left when they went to Canaan , where they re- mained till the death of Terah ; after which Abraham re- 31 . fumed his first design of going to Palestine . The Scriptures ...
... born in the city of Ur , in Chaldea , which he and his father left when they went to Canaan , where they re- mained till the death of Terah ; after which Abraham re- 31 . fumed his first design of going to Palestine . The Scriptures ...
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Seite 469 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God : and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Seite 87 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 87 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 83 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Seite 22 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Seite 42 - The object, I could first distinctly view, Was tall straight trees, which on the waters flew; Wings on their sides, instead of leaves, did grow, Which gathered all the breath the winds could blow : And at their roots grew floating palaces, Whose outblowed bellies cut the yielding seas.
Seite 294 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. VERSES...
Seite 51 - ... but this even balance of opinion is not maintained in the pagan epitaph which was placed on his tomb : — ' Hospes, Achillinum tumulo qui quaeris in isto, Falleris, ille suo iunctus Aristoteli Elysium colit, et quas rerum hie discere causas Vix potuit, plenis nunc videt ille oculis : . Tu modo, per campos dum nohilis umbra beatos Errat, die longum perpftuumque vale.'2 Meanwhile, a decree of the Lateran Council; published on 19 Dec.
Seite 80 - Britannia's public pofts retire, Nor longer, her ungrateful fons to pleafe, For their advantage facrifice your eafe ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys, Through nations fruitful of immortal lays, Where the foft feafon and inviting clime Confpire to trouble your repofe with rhime.
Seite 248 - I now write to give the King an account of a patent I have stayed at the seal. It is of licence to give in mortmain eight hundred pound land, though it be of tenure in chief, to Allen that was the player, for an hospital.