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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... lived . Some years ago , professor Walchius published in the Gottingen Transactions an inquiry into this subject , but was obliged to confess that he could arrive at no pro- bable conclusion , Some place Glycas in the twelfth , and some ...
... lived . Some years ago , professor Walchius published in the Gottingen Transactions an inquiry into this subject , but was obliged to confess that he could arrive at no pro- bable conclusion , Some place Glycas in the twelfth , and some ...
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... lived , and to which the rules of polished society condemn an unmarried woman . She conceived a personal and ar- dent affection for him . Mr. Fuseli was a married man , and his wife the acquaintance of Mary . She readily perceived the ...
... lived , and to which the rules of polished society condemn an unmarried woman . She conceived a personal and ar- dent affection for him . Mr. Fuseli was a married man , and his wife the acquaintance of Mary . She readily perceived the ...
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... lived without any new disturbance as long as Edward VI . was at the helm : but , upon the accession of Mary , his re- ligion exposed him to a fresh persecution , and he was ob- liged to quit his school . In this exigence , although the ...
... lived without any new disturbance as long as Edward VI . was at the helm : but , upon the accession of Mary , his re- ligion exposed him to a fresh persecution , and he was ob- liged to quit his school . In this exigence , although the ...
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... lived at St. Gal , in the house of a Mr. Schobinger , who declared himself his pa- tron ; but the same year he went to Geneva , and lived at the house of professor Lectius , with the sons of Vassan , whose preceptor he was . In 1602 he ...
... lived at St. Gal , in the house of a Mr. Schobinger , who declared himself his pa- tron ; but the same year he went to Geneva , and lived at the house of professor Lectius , with the sons of Vassan , whose preceptor he was . In 1602 he ...
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... lived to complete them . He had begun a Geographical and Historical Dic- tionary for the Eastern countries ; wherein the names of * For this purpose he employed an Armenian , who understood the vulgar Arabic , as well as the phrases ...
... lived to complete them . He had begun a Geographical and Historical Dic- tionary for the Eastern countries ; wherein the names of * For this purpose he employed an Armenian , who understood the vulgar Arabic , as well as the phrases ...
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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.