Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", المجلد 6Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1868 |
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... soon be abolished . In this expectation they were not disappointed , as this was really the object of the oligarchical party . But as this party did not sufficiently trust its own power , Lysander , who had already sailed to Samos , was ...
... soon be abolished . In this expectation they were not disappointed , as this was really the object of the oligarchical party . But as this party did not sufficiently trust its own power , Lysander , who had already sailed to Samos , was ...
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... soon afterwards entered the navy as a midshipman , but left it for the army , in which he became a second lieutenant , January 23 , 1806 , and in 1807 served THOMPSON , WILLIAM . 10 in the Rifle Brigade in the attack on Buenos Ayres ...
... soon afterwards entered the navy as a midshipman , but left it for the army , in which he became a second lieutenant , January 23 , 1806 , and in 1807 served THOMPSON , WILLIAM . 10 in the Rifle Brigade in the attack on Buenos Ayres ...
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... soon had an army and a fleet at their disposal . Thrasybulus attacked them both by sea and land , but his fleet was compelled to sail back to the island after the loss of several triremes , and his army was obliged to retreat to ...
... soon had an army and a fleet at their disposal . Thrasybulus attacked them both by sea and land , but his fleet was compelled to sail back to the island after the loss of several triremes , and his army was obliged to retreat to ...
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... soon after disposed of the papers to the Right Honourable John Lord Somers , then lord high chancellor of England , who caused them to be bound up in 67 volumes in folio . These afterwards descended to Sir Joseph Jekyll , master of the ...
... soon after disposed of the papers to the Right Honourable John Lord Somers , then lord high chancellor of England , who caused them to be bound up in 67 volumes in folio . These afterwards descended to Sir Joseph Jekyll , master of the ...
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... soon showed himself one of a class of persons who were then beginning to be considerable in England , who , taking their stand on the Scriptures , opposed them- selves at once to Romanism on the one hand and to Calvinism on the other ...
... soon showed himself one of a class of persons who were then beginning to be considerable in England , who , taking their stand on the Scriptures , opposed them- selves at once to Romanism on the one hand and to Calvinism on the other ...
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الصفحة 147 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
الصفحة 269 - This is perhaps the first picture of portraits in the world, comprehending more of those qualities which make a perfect portrait", than any other I have ever seen...
الصفحة 205 - Sacred History of the World, as displayed in the Creation and Subsequent Events to the Deluge. Attempted to be Philosophically considered in a Series of Letters to a Son. By Sharon Turner, FSA 33, 34.
الصفحة 103 - Travels in Western India. Embracing a visit to the Sacred Mounts of the Jains, and the most Celebrated Shrines of Hindu Faith between Rajpootana and the Indus, with an account of the Ancient City of Nehrwalla.
الصفحة 303 - Twenty-one million three hundred thousand of his lines are said to be actually printed ; and no less than eighteen hundred plays of his composition to have been acted on the stage. He nevertheless asserts, in one of his last poems, that " The printed part, though far too large, is less Than that which yet unprinted waits the press.
الصفحة 147 - He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed...
الصفحة 185 - There is, however, one work to which I owe so much, that it would be ungrateful not to confess the obligation: I mean the writings of the late Abraham Tucker, Esq.
الصفحة 185 - He was naturally endowed, not indeed with more than ordinary acuteness or sensibility, nor with a high degree of reach and range of mind, but with a singular capacity for careful observation and original reflection, and with a fancy perhaps unmatched in producing various and happy illustration. The most observable of his moral qualities appear to have been prudence and cheerfulness, good-nature and easy temper.
الصفحة 163 - ... being a tory in principle, he undertook to manage that party, provided he was furnished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes ; and by him began the practice of buying off men, in which hitherto the king had kept to stricter rules.
الصفحة 67 - ... say nothing." To what Falconet has said, we may add, that supposing this method of leaving the expression of grief to the imagination, to be, as it was thought to be, the invention of the painter, and that it deserves all the praise that has been given it, still it is a trick that will serve but once ; whoever does it a second time, will not only want novelty, but be justly suspected of using artifice to evade difficulties.