A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish ...The Proprietors, 1795 |
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... Italy . He was alfo a prodigious linguist , being able to talk with eafe and fluency , as we are told , no lefs than ten languages . He died at Leyden 1623 , only 43 years old . Cluver published in his life - time , " De tribus Rheni ...
... Italy . He was alfo a prodigious linguist , being able to talk with eafe and fluency , as we are told , no lefs than ten languages . He died at Leyden 1623 , only 43 years old . Cluver published in his life - time , " De tribus Rheni ...
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... Italy , and improved himself in his ftudies at Padua , being a zealous Roman Catholic . Notwithstanding this , upon his return to Eng- land , he acknowledged king Henry VIII . to be the fupreme head of the church in England . In 1540 he ...
... Italy , and improved himself in his ftudies at Padua , being a zealous Roman Catholic . Notwithstanding this , upon his return to Eng- land , he acknowledged king Henry VIII . to be the fupreme head of the church in England . In 1540 he ...
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... Italy ; and feems to have continued in thofe two countries from 1493 to 1497 : but before his departure , and indeed when he was of but two years standing in the university , he was inftituted to the rectory of De- nington , in Suffolk ...
... Italy ; and feems to have continued in thofe two countries from 1493 to 1497 : but before his departure , and indeed when he was of but two years standing in the university , he was inftituted to the rectory of De- nington , in Suffolk ...
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... Italy he contracted a friendship with feveral eminent perfons , especially with his own countrymen Grocin , Linacer , Lily , and Latymer ; who were learn- ing the Greek tongue , then but little known in England , under thofe great ...
... Italy he contracted a friendship with feveral eminent perfons , especially with his own countrymen Grocin , Linacer , Lily , and Latymer ; who were learn- ing the Greek tongue , then but little known in England , under thofe great ...
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... Italian , by the help of English translations ; and he pursued the fame method to learn Latin , beginning with an eafy prose author ; and in about one year and a half he did not re- quire any aid from tranflations to conftrue not only ...
... Italian , by the help of English translations ; and he pursued the fame method to learn Latin , beginning with an eafy prose author ; and in about one year and a half he did not re- quire any aid from tranflations to conftrue not only ...
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Página 376 - He enjoyed an uncommon share of health, insomuch that in the course of his long life he never was confined more than three days to his bed. He often declared that he had no idea of that most distressing pain called the headach.
Página 166 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Página 13 - Clive was complimented by his friends on his behaviour on this occasion, he made the following remark : " The man has given me my life, and I have no right in future to mention his behaviour at the card-table; although I will never pay him, nor ever keep him company.
Página 65 - By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff, that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics...
Página 279 - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Página 388 - Cheapside, and to be left there till further orders. In the mean time the Abbey was lighted up, the ground opened, the choir attending, and the bishop waiting some hours to no purpose for the corpse.
Página 129 - Corneille, whofe brother he was. He was a member of the French academy, and of the academy of Infcriptions. He difcovered, when he was young, a...
Página 73 - Common-prayer:" as, i. A Scholaftical Hiftory of the primitive and general Ufe of Liturgies in the Chriftian Church ; together with an Anfwer to Mr. David Clarkfon's late Difcourfe concerning Liturgies, 1690; dedicated to king William and queen Mary. 2. A Companion to the Temple; or, A Help to Devotion in the Ufe of the...
Página 143 - 'The Argument made by the Command of the Houfe of Commons, out of the Acts of Parliament and Authority of Law expounding the fame, at a Conference with the Lords, concerning the Liberty of the Perfon of every Freeman." 4. " A Brief Difcourfe concerning the Power of the Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature.
Página 264 - A Poem expreffing the Antiquity and Excellency of Dancing, in a Dialogue between Penelope and one of her Wooers ;