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 TimeAlexander Chalmers |
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... style . It is indeed more free from legendary tales than any other work of this period , and affords many proofs of the learning , good sense , sincerity and candour of its author . The best edition is that by Selden , under the title ...
... style . It is indeed more free from legendary tales than any other work of this period , and affords many proofs of the learning , good sense , sincerity and candour of its author . The best edition is that by Selden , under the title ...
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... style as mean , flat , and insipid ; which are the things about which you appear peculiarly con- cerned . And yet I thought a public animadversion both proper and necessary , and can meet with none of your readers , how different soever ...
... style as mean , flat , and insipid ; which are the things about which you appear peculiarly con- cerned . And yet I thought a public animadversion both proper and necessary , and can meet with none of your readers , how different soever ...
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... style of this work , and the vast erudition displayed , place him at the head of modern writers on this subject , and have occasioned the remark that he is the Linnĉus of his science . This very eminent antiquary died May 16 , 1798.1 ...
... style of this work , and the vast erudition displayed , place him at the head of modern writers on this subject , and have occasioned the remark that he is the Linnĉus of his science . This very eminent antiquary died May 16 , 1798.1 ...
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... style of them is clear , strong , and masculine , and entirely free from the pedantry and puerilities which infected the most applauded writers of that age . Several of them , together with abstracts from the rest , were published by Dr ...
... style of them is clear , strong , and masculine , and entirely free from the pedantry and puerilities which infected the most applauded writers of that age . Several of them , together with abstracts from the rest , were published by Dr ...
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... style of life . He was a representative in parliament for Abingdon , and afterward for his native town . This gentleman , in the latter end of the same year , sent him to Jamaica ; which proved the happiest and most fortunate change in ...
... style of life . He was a representative in parliament for Abingdon , and afterward for his native town . This gentleman , in the latter end of the same year , sent him to Jamaica ; which proved the happiest and most fortunate change in ...
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Page 121 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Page 121 - I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too ; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm ; to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.
Page 126 - ... ever filled a throne : a conduct less rigorous, less imperious, more sincere, more indulgent to her people, would have been requisite to form a perfect character. By the force of her mind she controlled all her more active and stronger qualities, and prevented them from running into excess : her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition...
Page 120 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Page 407 - The Dissonance of the four generally received Evangelists, and the evidence of their authenticity examined.
Page 121 - ... by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.
Page 120 - I am come amongst you as you see at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Page 127 - ... we are also apt to require some more softness of disposition, some greater lenity of temper, some of those amiable weaknesses by which her sex is distinguished.
Page 126 - There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any whose reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous consent of posterity. The unusual length of her administration, and the strong features of her character, were able to overcome...
Page 125 - ... expressive of some inward grief, which she cared not to reveal : but sighs and groans were the chief vent which she gave to her despondency, and which, though they discovered her sorrows, were never able to ease or assuage them. Ten days and nights she lay upon the carpet, leaning on cushions which her maids brought her : and her physicians could not persuade her to allow herself to be put to bed, much less to make trial of any remedies which they prescribed to her.