The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit: Containing Complete and Impartial Accounts of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, But More Particularly of Those who Have Signalized Themselves in America. In Four Volumes. Embellished with a Number of Portraits of the Most Distinguished Characters, Engraved from Original Drawings, 3. kötetJohnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1805 |
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... ( JOHN ) a celebrated English pa- triot , famous for sustaining singly the weight of a royal prosecution , on his refusing to pay the ship - mo- ney , which Charles I. had imposed , in an arbitrary manner , on the subject , without the ...
... ( JOHN ) a celebrated English pa- triot , famous for sustaining singly the weight of a royal prosecution , on his refusing to pay the ship - mo- ney , which Charles I. had imposed , in an arbitrary manner , on the subject , without the ...
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... ( JOHN ) grandson of the patriot of the same name , a representative in parliament for the county of Bucks , was in the year , 1684 , fined 177,600 dollars , for a real or pretended conspiracy . In 1688 , he was also tried for high ...
... ( JOHN ) grandson of the patriot of the same name , a representative in parliament for the county of Bucks , was in the year , 1684 , fined 177,600 dollars , for a real or pretended conspiracy . In 1688 , he was also tried for high ...
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... ( JOHN ) a celebrated English writer , was born about the year 1719 , and brought up to the trade of a watchmaker . But he afterwards . devoted himself to literature and became an author of considerable reputation . In the early part of ...
... ( JOHN ) a celebrated English writer , was born about the year 1719 , and brought up to the trade of a watchmaker . But he afterwards . devoted himself to literature and became an author of considerable reputation . In the early part of ...
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... sketch out of our artist's hands . Being once at dinner with the great Cheselden and some other company , he was told , that Mr. John Freke , surgeon of St. Bartholomew's hospital , had asserted , a few 44 NEW BIOGRAPHICAL.
... sketch out of our artist's hands . Being once at dinner with the great Cheselden and some other company , he was told , that Mr. John Freke , surgeon of St. Bartholomew's hospital , had asserted , a few 44 NEW BIOGRAPHICAL.
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... ( JOHN ) a man of singular and trans- cendant humanity , was the son of a reputable mer- chant in London , and born about the year 1725 . His father maintained great order and regularity in his house ; and to his constant observation of ...
... ( JOHN ) a man of singular and trans- cendant humanity , was the son of a reputable mer- chant in London , and born about the year 1725 . His father maintained great order and regularity in his house ; and to his constant observation of ...
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332. oldal - I modestly but freely told him ; and, after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found...
181. oldal - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house ; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living, that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
369. oldal - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
190. oldal - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar — if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick...
332. oldal - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me, and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
328. oldal - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
82. oldal - I consider besides, that a man of sixty-five, by dying, cuts off only a few years of infirmities ; and though I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than I am at present.
178. oldal - Disobedience of orders in not attacking the enemy on the 28th of June, agreeably to repeated instructions.
363. oldal - He first sent the chief nobility of his empire into foreign countries, to improve themselves in knowledge and learning : he opened his dominions, which till then had been shut up...
328. oldal - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.