A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish ...The Proprietors, 1795 - Biography |
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... character , in order to take him down : and , in 1584 , came out a moft virulent book against him , commonly called " Leicefter's Commonwealth . " The drift of it was to fhew , that the English conftitution was fubverted , and a new ...
... character , in order to take him down : and , in 1584 , came out a moft virulent book against him , commonly called " Leicefter's Commonwealth . " The drift of it was to fhew , that the English conftitution was fubverted , and a new ...
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... Characters " were published by Needham , there were printed along with them fome lectures of profeffor Duport upon the first fixteen characters , the fifth excepted . Thefe lectures had lain in the library of More , bifhop of Ely , for ...
... Characters " were published by Needham , there were printed along with them fome lectures of profeffor Duport upon the first fixteen characters , the fifth excepted . Thefe lectures had lain in the library of More , bifhop of Ely , for ...
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... characters not ill drawn , although rather too far- cical , and the language , if not perfectly correct , yet eafy and well adapted for the dialogue of comedy . But what Mr. D'Urfey ob- tained his greatest reputation by , was a ...
... characters not ill drawn , although rather too far- cical , and the language , if not perfectly correct , yet eafy and well adapted for the dialogue of comedy . But what Mr. D'Urfey ob- tained his greatest reputation by , was a ...
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... character . But being preffed by feveral of his friends , he discovered an averfenefs to the undertaking , which was conceived to arife from modefty , but fome time after found to have fprung from another cause . In this feeming state ...
... character . But being preffed by feveral of his friends , he discovered an averfenefs to the undertaking , which was conceived to arife from modefty , but fome time after found to have fprung from another cause . In this feeming state ...
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... character ? You who know the value of wifdom , and have a mind fraught with knowledge , which you are capable of applying to many beneficial purposes , can never be emulous of thofe diftinctions which difcriminate a man of pleasure from ...
... character ? You who know the value of wifdom , and have a mind fraught with knowledge , which you are capable of applying to many beneficial purposes , can never be emulous of thofe diftinctions which difcriminate a man of pleasure from ...
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Page 241 - Being thus forsaken and oppressed, he was reduced to great straits : when God raised him up an unexpected patron in Sir Thomas Lucy, of Warwickshire, who received him into his house, and made him tutor to his children. Here he married a citizen's daughter of Coventry, and continued in Sir Thomas's family till his...
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Page 26 - Of this the firft fymptoms were an imbecillity to refift any temptation abroad on a Sunday evening, that fhould eafe him of the trouble of fuch exercifes as he had been accuftomed to perform in the family of his mother, and an eager curiofity in the perufal of books not merely of entertainment, but of fuch, as together with a knowledge of the world, furnifhed his mind with fuch palliatives of vice as made him half a convert to it. While While his mind was...
Page 7 - Sept. 1639. Sir Robert Dudley was not only admired by princes, but also by the learned ; among whom he held a very high rank, as well on account of his skill in philosophy, chemistry, and physic, as his perfect acquaintance with all the branches of the mathematics, and the means of applying them for the service and benefit of mankind. He wrote several things. We have mentioned the account of his voyage. His prmcipal work is, " Del arcano del mare,
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