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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... visited every part of Syria and Palestine , and founded a monastery of his order on mount Libanus , over which he presided till he was recalled to Rome . While abroad he wrote a letter to his brother , informing him that instead of the ...
... visited every part of Syria and Palestine , and founded a monastery of his order on mount Libanus , over which he presided till he was recalled to Rome . While abroad he wrote a letter to his brother , informing him that instead of the ...
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... visited the painters , and the curious ; and went to Rome and Naples , where he studied the works of the best mas- ters , and designed a great number of pieces after them . To prevent his being known , he passed for his man's ser- vant ...
... visited the painters , and the curious ; and went to Rome and Naples , where he studied the works of the best mas- ters , and designed a great number of pieces after them . To prevent his being known , he passed for his man's ser- vant ...
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... Lloyd's Memoirs , folio , p . 601. - Usher's Life and Letters , p 553 Dodd's Ch . Hist . vol . III . his arrival he visited the prior and convent of Ely H 2 GOOD MAN . 99 him to be suspended, and it appeared soon after ...
... Lloyd's Memoirs , folio , p . 601. - Usher's Life and Letters , p 553 Dodd's Ch . Hist . vol . III . his arrival he visited the prior and convent of Ely H 2 GOOD MAN . 99 him to be suspended, and it appeared soon after ...
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... visited the prior and convent of Ely ; and next year sent a mandate to all the clergy of his diocese , dated at Somersham June 27 , 1535 , with orders to erase the name of the pope out of all their books , and to pub- lish in their ...
... visited the prior and convent of Ely ; and next year sent a mandate to all the clergy of his diocese , dated at Somersham June 27 , 1535 , with orders to erase the name of the pope out of all their books , and to pub- lish in their ...
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... visited most parts of that country , and had also travelled into France , Germany , & c . In 1736 he was appointed secretary to the society for the encou- ragement of learning , with an annual salary of 50 % . which he resigned in 1739 ...
... visited most parts of that country , and had also travelled into France , Germany , & c . In 1736 he was appointed secretary to the society for the encou- ragement of learning , with an annual salary of 50 % . which he resigned in 1739 ...
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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.