Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia"Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... soon acquired . In 1814 Gärtner went to Italy , where he remained four years . He visited Rome , Naples , and other places of general interest , but would appear to have devoted himself to the antique monuments as much as to later works ...
... soon acquired . In 1814 Gärtner went to Italy , where he remained four years . He visited Rome , Naples , and other places of general interest , but would appear to have devoted himself to the antique monuments as much as to later works ...
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... soon became the object of popular dislike and ridicule , his favourites were hated , and revolts against him broke out in various quarters , several of which were put down and punished severely . Galba thought of strengthening himself ...
... soon became the object of popular dislike and ridicule , his favourites were hated , and revolts against him broke out in various quarters , several of which were put down and punished severely . Galba thought of strengthening himself ...
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... soon began to show his talents as a writer on political subjects . His maternal uncle was at that time one of the regency , but Galiano , thinking the regency too deferential to the Duke of Wellington and the English , assailed them in ...
... soon began to show his talents as a writer on political subjects . His maternal uncle was at that time one of the regency , but Galiano , thinking the regency too deferential to the Duke of Wellington and the English , assailed them in ...
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... soon arrived at the conclusion that these characters and talents seldom changed by education . He observed , it is said , that the boys who were his most formidable competitors were all distinguishable by a peculiar expression of ...
... soon arrived at the conclusion that these characters and talents seldom changed by education . He observed , it is said , that the boys who were his most formidable competitors were all distinguishable by a peculiar expression of ...
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... Soon after his return he married Elizabeth , daughter of Dr. Tilloch , the editor of the ' Philosophical Magazine , ' and also proprietor of the ' Star ' news- paper , on which Mr. Galt was for some time employed . By this lady he left ...
... Soon after his return he married Elizabeth , daughter of Dr. Tilloch , the editor of the ' Philosophical Magazine , ' and also proprietor of the ' Star ' news- paper , on which Mr. Galt was for some time employed . By this lady he left ...
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الصفحة 95 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
الصفحة 27 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
الصفحة 139 - ... with a tolerable voice, and now turned what was once my amusement into a present means of subsistence. I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders, and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry; for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house, towards night-fall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day.
الصفحة 59 - An Act for the security of Her " Majesty's Person and Government, and of the " succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the
الصفحة 49 - Surest Way for a Nation to Increase in Riches, is to Prevent the Importation of Such Foreign Commodities as May Be Rais'd at Home.
الصفحة 59 - ... said kingdoms and dominions to be to the heirs of the body of the said princess and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
الصفحة 179 - You must know that I do not take degrees, and, after this term, shall have nothing more of college impertinences to undergo, which I trust will be some pleasure to you, as it is a great one to me. I have endured lectures daily and hourly since I came last, supported by the hopes of being shortly at full liberty to give myself up to my friends and classical companions...
الصفحة 63 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
الصفحة 73 - Windsor, on the evening of Saturday, the 29th of January, 1820, in the eighty-second year of his age, and the sixtieth of his reign.
الصفحة 441 - A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily, tending to illustrate some Districts which have not been described by Mr. Eustace In his Classical Tour.