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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... whole becomes a piece of cold mechanism . The chevalier Gluck , after returning to Vienna from Paris , and being rendered incapable of writing by a para- lytic stroke in 1784 , only lingered in a debilitated state till the autumn of ...
... whole becomes a piece of cold mechanism . The chevalier Gluck , after returning to Vienna from Paris , and being rendered incapable of writing by a para- lytic stroke in 1784 , only lingered in a debilitated state till the autumn of ...
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... whole was published by father Labbe , Paris , 1660 , fol . Some of his letters have been published in the " Deliciæ eruditorum , " Florence , 1736 , and other collections.1 GMELIN ( JOHN GEORGE ) , a physician and eminent botanist , was ...
... whole was published by father Labbe , Paris , 1660 , fol . Some of his letters have been published in the " Deliciæ eruditorum , " Florence , 1736 , and other collections.1 GMELIN ( JOHN GEORGE ) , a physician and eminent botanist , was ...
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... Holy Harbour , containing the whole body of divinity , or the sum and substance of the Christian Religion . " But 1 Moreri . - Vossius de Hist . Lat . - Saxii Onomast . * whatever may be the principles maintained in these works GODFREY .
... Holy Harbour , containing the whole body of divinity , or the sum and substance of the Christian Religion . " But 1 Moreri . - Vossius de Hist . Lat . - Saxii Onomast . * whatever may be the principles maintained in these works GODFREY .
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... whole government , both in church and state ; and perfectly knew the temper , genius , and disposition of the English nation . And though his stern gravity appeared a little ungracious , yet his steady and impartial justice recommended ...
... whole government , both in church and state ; and perfectly knew the temper , genius , and disposition of the English nation . And though his stern gravity appeared a little ungracious , yet his steady and impartial justice recommended ...
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... whole time to the discharge of his high office , he married a second wife , a widow , of years suitable to his own . An illiberal misrepresentation , however , of this affair was but too readily believed by the queen , who had a rooted ...
... whole time to the discharge of his high office , he married a second wife , a widow , of years suitable to his own . An illiberal misrepresentation , however , of this affair was but too readily believed by the queen , who had a rooted ...
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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.