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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... death of the blessed Virgin , with the apostles about her the attitudes of which story , Michael Angelo used to say , could not be better designed . Giotto , how- ever , did not confine his genius altogether to painting : he was both a ...
... death of the blessed Virgin , with the apostles about her the attitudes of which story , Michael Angelo used to say , could not be better designed . Giotto , how- ever , did not confine his genius altogether to painting : he was both a ...
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... death of that prince in 1558 . was continued in it by his successor : but envy having done him some ill offices with his master , he was obliged to quit the court . He left the city at the same time , and removed with his family to ...
... death of that prince in 1558 . was continued in it by his successor : but envy having done him some ill offices with his master , he was obliged to quit the court . He left the city at the same time , and removed with his family to ...
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... death snatched him away , when the learned world expected some of his greatest attempts and enterprizes . Horneck gave a large , and apparently very just character of Glanvil , who was un- questionably a man of learning and genius , and ...
... death snatched him away , when the learned world expected some of his greatest attempts and enterprizes . Horneck gave a large , and apparently very just character of Glanvil , who was un- questionably a man of learning and genius , and ...
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... death , by professor Pallas . 3. " Journey from Astracan to Czarizyn : " and also a " Second Persian Journey , " 1772-74 ; ibid . 1786. Pallas prefixed Gmelin's Life to the fourth part of his travels . ' GMELIN ( JOHN FREDERICK ) , of ...
... death , by professor Pallas . 3. " Journey from Astracan to Czarizyn : " and also a " Second Persian Journey , " 1772-74 ; ibid . 1786. Pallas prefixed Gmelin's Life to the fourth part of his travels . ' GMELIN ( JOHN FREDERICK ) , of ...
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... death , which was very sudden . He used to meet a select number of friends at the Crown - tavern in Bloomsbury , where they discoursed on philosophical subjects , and in his return thence in the evening of March 24 , 1674 , he was ...
... death , which was very sudden . He used to meet a select number of friends at the Crown - tavern in Bloomsbury , where they discoursed on philosophical subjects , and in his return thence in the evening of March 24 , 1674 , he was ...
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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...
Seite 149 - A New and Full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament.
Seite 317 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Seite 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Seite 82 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Seite 119 - So that all things considered there have not, since the primitive times of Christianity, been many among the sons of men to whom that glorious character of the Son of God might be better applied, that he went about doing good...
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 127 - SEPULCHRAL monuments in Great Britain applied to illustrate the history of families, manners, habits, and arts, at the different periods from the Norman Conquest to the seventeenth century.
Seite 248 - Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.
Seite 24 - A short Account of the late Application to Parliament made by the Merchants of London upon the neglect of their Trade : with the Substance of the Evidence thereupon, as summed up by Mr. Glover.