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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... proved that they had consented to their own nomination : but they were consi- dered as malignants , and their estates were seized . " Waller , " says Clarendon , whom we have already quoted on this point , " though confessedly the most ...
... proved that they had consented to their own nomination : but they were consi- dered as malignants , and their estates were seized . " Waller , " says Clarendon , whom we have already quoted on this point , " though confessedly the most ...
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... proved re- markably successful . After many signal advantages , how- ever , he sustained some defeats by the king's forces , par- ticularly at Roundway Down near the Devizes , and at Cropready - bridge in Oxfordshire . On each of those ...
... proved re- markably successful . After many signal advantages , how- ever , he sustained some defeats by the king's forces , par- ticularly at Roundway Down near the Devizes , and at Cropready - bridge in Oxfordshire . On each of those ...
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... proved no more but a new alphabet . It was about ten o'clock , when we rose from supper . I then withdrew to my chamber to consider it ; and by the number of different characters therein ( not above 22 or 23 ) I judged , that it could ...
... proved no more but a new alphabet . It was about ten o'clock , when we rose from supper . I then withdrew to my chamber to consider it ; and by the number of different characters therein ( not above 22 or 23 ) I judged , that it could ...
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... prove this they reported , that he had during the civil wars decyphered king Charles I.'s letters taken in his cabinet at Naseby ; and that the letters so de- . cyphered by him were to be seen in the books 32 WALLI S.
... prove this they reported , that he had during the civil wars decyphered king Charles I.'s letters taken in his cabinet at Naseby ; and that the letters so de- . cyphered by him were to be seen in the books 32 WALLI S.
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... proving , in at least fifty instances , how much Des Cartes borrowed his pretended improvements in Algebra from our countryman Harriot ; and this charge , our readers may recollect , has been more recently confirmed . ( See HARRIOT ...
... proving , in at least fifty instances , how much Des Cartes borrowed his pretended improvements in Algebra from our countryman Harriot ; and this charge , our readers may recollect , has been more recently confirmed . ( See HARRIOT ...
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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...