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... court . He died on the 12th of August the same year , at the palace of Drotlingholm . He also wrote Brunchilda , a tragedy , and A Translation of Montesquieu's Causes de la Grandeur et de la Décadence des Romains . A collection of his ...
... court . He died on the 12th of August the same year , at the palace of Drotlingholm . He also wrote Brunchilda , a tragedy , and A Translation of Montesquieu's Causes de la Grandeur et de la Décadence des Romains . A collection of his ...
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... court of Pennsylvania ; and in the course of four or five years he became a prac- titioner in the courts of the ... Court of Common Pleas ; and in 1818 he succeeded his friend , Gibbs , in the presidency of the same court . He resigned ...
... court of Pennsylvania ; and in the course of four or five years he became a prac- titioner in the courts of the ... Court of Common Pleas ; and in 1818 he succeeded his friend , Gibbs , in the presidency of the same court . He resigned ...
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... court of session , and on the 1st of July , 1657 , he took his seat on the bench . At the Restoration he was knighted , and was also nominated one of the lords of session . He was created a baronet in 1664 , and was appointed pre ...
... court of session , and on the 1st of July , 1657 , he took his seat on the bench . At the Restoration he was knighted , and was also nominated one of the lords of session . He was created a baronet in 1664 , and was appointed pre ...
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... court of inquiry . He was subsequently appointed colonel of the 57th regiment , and governor of Black- ness castle , and in 1812 he obtained the rank of general . He was created a baronet in 1814. He died in 1830 . DALTON , ( Michael ...
... court of inquiry . He was subsequently appointed colonel of the 57th regiment , and governor of Black- ness castle , and in 1812 he obtained the rank of general . He was created a baronet in 1814. He died in 1830 . DALTON , ( Michael ...
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... court of Rome , on the subject of benefices , the bishop of Orvieto , affecting to despise what he said , observed with a sarcastic smile , " Gallus cantat " The cock ( or the Frenchman ) crows . " Utinam , " replied the bishop of ...
... court of Rome , on the subject of benefices , the bishop of Orvieto , affecting to despise what he said , observed with a sarcastic smile , " Gallus cantat " The cock ( or the Frenchman ) crows . " Utinam , " replied the bishop of ...
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Page 229 - After some common discourses had passed between us he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. '' When I came home and had set myself to read it I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Page 223 - She answered with a faint voice that as she had held a regal sceptre, she desired no other than a royal successor. Cecil requesting her to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined that she would have a king to succeed her; and who should that be but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots?
Page 149 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into 30 its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay
Page 99 - An Epistolary Discourse, proving, from the Scriptures and the first Fathers, that the Soul is a Principle naturally mortal, but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God, to Punishment, or to Reward, by its Union with the Divine Baptismal Spirit. Wherein is proved, that none have the Power of giving this Divine Immortalizing Spirit, since the Apostles, but only the Bishops.
Page 229 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Page 473 - Christian, this vehement suspicion rightfully entertained towards me, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors and heresies...
Page 229 - After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it ; which I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 210 - Arkwright (she died 1844) ; was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of BA...
Page 175 - The Evidence of Reason, in proof of the Immortality of the Soul, independent on the more abstruse Inquiry into the Nature of Matter and Spirit. Collected from the MSS.
Page 223 - 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.