The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, المجلد 31Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1817 |
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... lived a roving and irregular life , often engaged in skirmishes with the English troops which then had invaded and kept Scotland under subjec- tion . For his adventures , until he became the subject of history , we must refer to Henry ...
... lived a roving and irregular life , often engaged in skirmishes with the English troops which then had invaded and kept Scotland under subjec- tion . For his adventures , until he became the subject of history , we must refer to Henry ...
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... lived with great splen- dour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused him-- self with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the re- bels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became ...
... lived with great splen- dour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused him-- self with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the re- bels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became ...
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... lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that maintained him . In parliament , Burnet says , Waller " was the delight of the house , and though old , said ...
... lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that maintained him . In parliament , Burnet says , Waller " was the delight of the house , and though old , said ...
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... lived long enough to observe that this falling church has got a trick of rising again . " He took notice to his friends of the king's conduct ; and said that " he would be left like a whale upon the strand . " Whether he was privy to ...
... lived long enough to observe that this falling church has got a trick of rising again . " He took notice to his friends of the king's conduct ; and said that " he would be left like a whale upon the strand . " Whether he was privy to ...
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... lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; and so I hope your Grace will . " He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beacons- field , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscriptions ...
... lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; and so I hope your Grace will . " He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beacons- field , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscriptions ...
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الصفحة 69 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
الصفحة 402 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
الصفحة 251 - Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to sooth his mind, and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
الصفحة 119 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
الصفحة 89 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
الصفحة 297 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
الصفحة 440 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.
الصفحة 165 - Master William Warner, a man of good yeares and of honest reputation ; by his profession an atturnye of the Common Pleas ; author of...
الصفحة 436 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
الصفحة 336 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet...