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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... court of Denmark ; but , being ambitious of a more public station , he volunteered his services in the home and foreign department , and displayed so much activity that he was dispatched by Christian VI . to East Friezland , to settle ...
... court of Denmark ; but , being ambitious of a more public station , he volunteered his services in the home and foreign department , and displayed so much activity that he was dispatched by Christian VI . to East Friezland , to settle ...
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... court , as exhibited in parties , and the several individuals who composed them . He could tell the political value of almost every veteran courtier , or candidate for power . He could develope their latent views , he could foretell ...
... court , as exhibited in parties , and the several individuals who composed them . He could tell the political value of almost every veteran courtier , or candidate for power . He could develope their latent views , he could foretell ...
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... court proscription to simplicity or want of talents . If he did not support his rank with that ostentatious splendour now become so fashionable , the world was ready to impute it to a want of œconomy , or a want of spirit ; but in all ...
... court proscription to simplicity or want of talents . If he did not support his rank with that ostentatious splendour now become so fashionable , the world was ready to impute it to a want of œconomy , or a want of spirit ; but in all ...
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... court , however , struck with this dis- interested act , gave him a pension of 2800 livres , without the solicitation or knowledge of any of his friends . Mably not only inveighed against luxury and riches , but showed by his example ...
... court , however , struck with this dis- interested act , gave him a pension of 2800 livres , without the solicitation or knowledge of any of his friends . Mably not only inveighed against luxury and riches , but showed by his example ...
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... court at London . His paintings are consequently not unfrequent in this country . Many excellent works of Mabuse are at Middleburg ; one of the most capital is the altar - piece of the great church , representing the descent from the ...
... court at London . His paintings are consequently not unfrequent in this country . Many excellent works of Mabuse are at Middleburg ; one of the most capital is the altar - piece of the great church , representing the descent from the ...
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Page 325 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Page 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Page 286 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Page 423 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Page 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Page 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Page 390 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 449 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Page 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.