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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... lord Sandys . Dr. Wall was a man of extraordinary genius , which he improved by early and in- defatigable industry in the pursuit of science ; but he was more particularly eminent in those branches of natural philosophy which have an ...
... lord Sandys . Dr. Wall was a man of extraordinary genius , which he improved by early and in- defatigable industry in the pursuit of science ; but he was more particularly eminent in those branches of natural philosophy which have an ...
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... lord Conway were committed , one to the custody of the mayor , and the other of the sheriff : but their lands and goods were not seized . Waller , however , was still to immerse himself deeper in ignominy . The earl of Portland and lord ...
... lord Conway were committed , one to the custody of the mayor , and the other of the sheriff : but their lands and goods were not seized . Waller , however , was still to immerse himself deeper in ignominy . The earl of Portland and lord ...
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... lord Portland in an upper room , lord Portland said , when he came down , " Do me the favour to tell my lord Northumberland , that Mr. Waller has ex- tremely pressed me to save my own life and his , by throw- ing the blame upon the lord ...
... lord Portland in an upper room , lord Portland said , when he came down , " Do me the favour to tell my lord Northumberland , that Mr. Waller has ex- tremely pressed me to save my own life and his , by throw- ing the blame upon the lord ...
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... lord Buckhurst in the translation of Corneille's Pompey ; and is said to have added his help to that of Cowley in the original draught of the Rehearsal . The care of his fortune , which Clarendon imputes to him in a degree little less ...
... lord Buckhurst in the translation of Corneille's Pompey ; and is said to have added his help to that of Cowley in the original draught of the Rehearsal . The care of his fortune , which Clarendon imputes to him in a degree little less ...
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... lord viscount Courtenay ; secondly , to the lady Anne Finch , daughter of the first earl of Winchelsea , by whom he had one son , William , who was afterwards an active magistrate for the county of Middlesex , and a strenuous opposer of ...
... lord viscount Courtenay ; secondly , to the lady Anne Finch , daughter of the first earl of Winchelsea , by whom he had one son , William , who was afterwards an active magistrate for the county of Middlesex , and a strenuous opposer of ...
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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...