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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... answered very forcibly , though with a rufticity not unfrequent with her , " that it was all truth and day - light . " A more extenfive walk in comedy than that of Mrs. Clive cannot be imagined ; the chambermaid in every varied fhape ...
... answered very forcibly , though with a rufticity not unfrequent with her , " that it was all truth and day - light . " A more extenfive walk in comedy than that of Mrs. Clive cannot be imagined ; the chambermaid in every varied fhape ...
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... answer , that he did in all humility proftrate himself to his majefty's good plea- fure ; that he acknowledged that decree to be juft , and proceeded ra- ther from his majesty's exceeding mercy than his juftice ; gave humble thanks to ...
... answer , that he did in all humility proftrate himself to his majefty's good plea- fure ; that he acknowledged that decree to be juft , and proceeded ra- ther from his majesty's exceeding mercy than his juftice ; gave humble thanks to ...
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... answer fome complaints made against him , about fome commitments in the year 1628. He is alfo accufed , though unjustly , of having put into the king's hands a paper from the Scots , inftead of the genuine articles of pacification at ...
... answer fome complaints made against him , about fome commitments in the year 1628. He is alfo accufed , though unjustly , of having put into the king's hands a paper from the Scots , inftead of the genuine articles of pacification at ...
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... answer to a pamphlet of Dr. Gilbert Burnet , afterwards bishop of Salisbury , called , " An Enquiry into the prefent State of Affairs , & c . " wherein king James is treated as a deferter from his crown ; and it gave fuch offence , that ...
... answer to a pamphlet of Dr. Gilbert Burnet , afterwards bishop of Salisbury , called , " An Enquiry into the prefent State of Affairs , & c . " wherein king James is treated as a deferter from his crown ; and it gave fuch offence , that ...
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... Answer to his Defence , & c . " dated April 25. Alfo , " A Reply to the Abfo- lution of a Penitent , according to the Directions of the Church of England , & c . " dated May 20 , 1696 ; and " An Answer to the Animadverfions on two ...
... Answer to his Defence , & c . " dated April 25. Alfo , " A Reply to the Abfo- lution of a Penitent , according to the Directions of the Church of England , & c . " dated May 20 , 1696 ; and " An Answer to the Animadverfions on two ...
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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 ;