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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... particular branches of it , which were confessed upon the exa- minatious of master Waller , master Tomkins , master Challoner , master Hassel , master Blinkhorne , master White , and others the chief actors of it . " That which appeared ...
... particular branches of it , which were confessed upon the exa- minatious of master Waller , master Tomkins , master Challoner , master Hassel , master Blinkhorne , master White , and others the chief actors of it . " That which appeared ...
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... particular congregations ( beside the inspection of their own pastor and other officers ) to be united under the same common government ; and such communities to be further subordinate to provincial and national assemblies ; which is ...
... particular congregations ( beside the inspection of their own pastor and other officers ) to be united under the same common government ; and such communities to be further subordinate to provincial and national assemblies ; which is ...
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... particular . " In this cha- racter his talents are certainly not over - rated . It is there- fore with some surprize that we perceive him slightly no- ticed by a late mathematical biographer , as " distinguished more by industry and ...
... particular . " In this cha- racter his talents are certainly not over - rated . It is there- fore with some surprize that we perceive him slightly no- ticed by a late mathematical biographer , as " distinguished more by industry and ...
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... particular class , as a swinish multitude . Sir Ro- bert Walpole did not say , as usually reported , that " all men have their price ; " but speaking of a particular number of his opponents , he said " All those men have their price ...
... particular class , as a swinish multitude . Sir Ro- bert Walpole did not say , as usually reported , that " all men have their price ; " but speaking of a particular number of his opponents , he said " All those men have their price ...
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... In 1768 , Mr. Walpole printed fifty copies of his tra- gedy of the " Mysterious Mother , " which , as usual , were distributed among his particular friends , but with injunc- tions of secrecy . The horrible story on which it 60 WALPOLE .
... In 1768 , Mr. Walpole printed fifty copies of his tra- gedy of the " Mysterious Mother , " which , as usual , were distributed among his particular friends , but with injunc- tions of secrecy . The horrible story on which it 60 WALPOLE .
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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,
Página 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...