A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volumen1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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Página 53
... four months after , as he was following a proceffion of the hoft , he was feized with a fudden frenzy , and being carried home , expired in a very fhort time . Some fay he killed him- felf ; but his brother Chriftian reprefents this as ...
... four months after , as he was following a proceffion of the hoft , he was feized with a fudden frenzy , and being carried home , expired in a very fhort time . Some fay he killed him- felf ; but his brother Chriftian reprefents this as ...
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... four different cities ? The answer is plain , Hefhufius was fedi tious . " He wrote a book in the Flemish tongue , De Jure Patro- natus . He is faid alfo to have been the author of Elenchus Orthodoxus Pfeudo Religionis Romano Catholice ...
... four different cities ? The answer is plain , Hefhufius was fedi tious . " He wrote a book in the Flemish tongue , De Jure Patro- natus . He is faid alfo to have been the author of Elenchus Orthodoxus Pfeudo Religionis Romano Catholice ...
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... four volumes , lived in the 16th , or begin- hing of the 17th century , and are either Germans or Fle- mings , but he published in 1618 the lives of twenty divines of other countries in a separate volume . All his divines are Pro ...
... four volumes , lived in the 16th , or begin- hing of the 17th century , and are either Germans or Fle- mings , but he published in 1618 the lives of twenty divines of other countries in a separate volume . All his divines are Pro ...
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... four years afterwards , fhe was again found , and burnt for a witch ( d ) . ( b ) Mr. Calderwood says , That his father's name was Conftance , a baker in Perth , and , under the name of Conftance , he affifted as a minifter in the first ...
... four years afterwards , fhe was again found , and burnt for a witch ( d ) . ( b ) Mr. Calderwood says , That his father's name was Conftance , a baker in Perth , and , under the name of Conftance , he affifted as a minifter in the first ...
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... four or five years old debt , which a few days be- fore she had sent to him . It is true , the duke refused to take the facrament out of a prieft's hand , when he was dying ; but had received it before , as was reported , out of the ...
... four or five years old debt , which a few days be- fore she had sent to him . It is true , the duke refused to take the facrament out of a prieft's hand , when he was dying ; but had received it before , as was reported , out of the ...
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Página 469 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God : and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Página 87 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 87 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 83 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Página 22 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Página 42 - The object, I could first distinctly view, Was tall straight trees, which on the waters flew; Wings on their sides, instead of leaves, did grow, Which gathered all the breath the winds could blow : And at their roots grew floating palaces, Whose outblowed bellies cut the yielding seas.
Página 294 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. VERSES...
Página 51 - ... but this even balance of opinion is not maintained in the pagan epitaph which was placed on his tomb : — ' Hospes, Achillinum tumulo qui quaeris in isto, Falleris, ille suo iunctus Aristoteli Elysium colit, et quas rerum hie discere causas Vix potuit, plenis nunc videt ille oculis : . Tu modo, per campos dum nohilis umbra beatos Errat, die longum perpftuumque vale.'2 Meanwhile, a decree of the Lateran Council; published on 19 Dec.
Página 80 - Britannia's public pofts retire, Nor longer, her ungrateful fons to pleafe, For their advantage facrifice your eafe ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys, Through nations fruitful of immortal lays, Where the foft feafon and inviting clime Confpire to trouble your repofe with rhime.
Página 248 - I now write to give the King an account of a patent I have stayed at the seal. It is of licence to give in mortmain eight hundred pound land, though it be of tenure in chief, to Allen that was the player, for an hospital.