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], 1815 - Biography |
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... sent to him in the deserts of Syria . From hence he went to Aquileia , where he became first acquainted with Ruffinus , who was a presbyter in that town , and with whom he contracted an intimate friendship . When he had travelled as ...
... sent to him in the deserts of Syria . From hence he went to Aquileia , where he became first acquainted with Ruffinus , who was a presbyter in that town , and with whom he contracted an intimate friendship . When he had travelled as ...
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... sent to the emperor for a safe conduct , which was refused . The council , very artfully , were willing to grant him a safe - conduct to come to Constance , but not for his return to Bohemia . Upon this he caused to be fixed upon all ...
... sent to the emperor for a safe conduct , which was refused . The council , very artfully , were willing to grant him a safe - conduct to come to Constance , but not for his return to Bohemia . Upon this he caused to be fixed upon all ...
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... sent him , by those presents , a safe - conduct so far as to secure him from any violence , but they did not mean to exempt him from justice , as far as it depended upon the council , and as the catholic faith required . This pass and ...
... sent him , by those presents , a safe - conduct so far as to secure him from any violence , but they did not mean to exempt him from justice , as far as it depended upon the council , and as the catholic faith required . This pass and ...
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... sent us . " Pope speaks of him with more enthusiasm than felicity , and ra- ther as if he was determined to praise , than as if he felt the subject . Perhaps some of the unhappiest lines in the works of that poet are in the short ...
... sent us . " Pope speaks of him with more enthusiasm than felicity , and ra- ther as if he was determined to praise , than as if he felt the subject . Perhaps some of the unhappiest lines in the works of that poet are in the short ...
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... school at Barnstaple , bę Maty's Review , vol . VIII - Saxii Onomast . Moreri . - Dict . Hist - Wotton's Misc . Discourses , vol . I. ch . iii . 3 Moreri . - Dict . Hist . was sent to Oxford , and admitted a postmaster of 16 JERUSALEM .
... school at Barnstaple , bę Maty's Review , vol . VIII - Saxii Onomast . Moreri . - Dict . Hist - Wotton's Misc . Discourses , vol . I. ch . iii . 3 Moreri . - Dict . Hist . was sent to Oxford , and admitted a postmaster of 16 JERUSALEM .
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Page 151 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 70 - Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.
Page 416 - This often betrayed him into indecent and undutiful expressions with respect to the queen's person and conduct. Those very qualities, however, which now render his character less amiable, fitted him to be the instrument of providence for advancing the reformation among a fierce people, and enabled him to face dangers, and to surmount opposition, from which a person of a more gentle spirit would have been apt to shrink back.
Page 14 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display, • Soft without weakness, without glaring gay; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains; And finish'd more through happiness than pains.
Page 311 - He was soliciting the earl of Arran to speak to his brother the duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a 'clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.
Page 28 - Her unexperienced mind, working day and night on this favourite object, mistook the impulses of passion for heavenly inspirations; and she fancied that she saw visions, and heard voices, exhorting her to reestablish the throne of France, and to expel the foreign invaders.
Page 131 - But what appears to me," adds his lordship, " more particularly to have enabled him to employ his talents so much to his own and the public advantage, was the regular allotment of his time to particular occupations, and a scrupulous adherence to the distribution which he had fixed : hence all his studies were pursued without interruption or confusion.
Page 318 - The State of the printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament considered.
Page 313 - Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks.
Page 406 - But none of our writers can, in my opinion justly contest the superiority of Knolles, who, in his history of the Turks, has displayed all the excellencies that narration can admit.