The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1817 |
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... gives us a report that some time between the age of twenty - three and thirty , " he grew mad , " but did not remain long in this unhappy state ; and he seems to think that the above disappointment might have been the cause . It is ...
... gives us a report that some time between the age of twenty - three and thirty , " he grew mad , " but did not remain long in this unhappy state ; and he seems to think that the above disappointment might have been the cause . It is ...
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... give him the holy sacrament , he desired his children to take it with him , and made an earnest declaration of his faith in Chris- tianity . It now appeared what part of his conversation . with the great could be remembered with delight ...
... give him the holy sacrament , he desired his children to take it with him , and made an earnest declaration of his faith in Chris- tianity . It now appeared what part of his conversation . with the great could be remembered with delight ...
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... give over writing verses ( for he was near thirty years of age when he first engaged himself in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprized the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had ...
... give over writing verses ( for he was near thirty years of age when he first engaged himself in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprized the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had ...
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... gives , as the literary per- formances of sir William Waller , some of his letters and dispatches respecting his ... give a very faithful picture of his honest sentiments , and of his frailties and failings . Wood also mentions his ...
... gives , as the literary per- formances of sir William Waller , some of his letters and dispatches respecting his ... give a very faithful picture of his honest sentiments , and of his frailties and failings . Wood also mentions his ...
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... give his own account of the discovery . " About the beginning of our civil wars , in the year 1642 , a chaplain of sir William Waller's , one evening as we were sitting down to supper at the lady Vere's in London , with whom I then ...
... give his own account of the discovery . " About the beginning of our civil wars , in the year 1642 , a chaplain of sir William Waller's , one evening as we were sitting down to supper at the lady Vere's in London , with whom I then ...
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الصفحة 432 - 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 293 - 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 398 - 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 85 - 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 436 - 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 20 - Lord, I am a great deal older than your Grace, " and have, I believe, heard more arguments for " Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have " lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; " and so, I hope, your Grace will.
الصفحة 392 - Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature. This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a college living, he could never persuade himself to...
الصفحة 169 - Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments, or sketches of a design I once had to give a history of English poetry, you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months before I comply with...
الصفحة 262 - Table, and ordered by the King to deliver his official Opinion on the point ; stated in the most precise terms, that any such Assemblage might be dispersed by military force, without waiting for Forms, or reading the Act in Question. " Is that your Declaration of the Law, as Attorney-general ?" said the King. Wedderburn answering decidedly in the affirmative, " Then so let it be done,
الصفحة 332 - ... praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...