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, 3-4. kötetJohnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1802 |
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7. oldal
... age , without any instructor . His propensity for mu- sic at last became so strong , that his father , who designed him for the civil law , thought proper , even at this early period to forbid him to touch any DICTIONARY . 7.
... age , without any instructor . His propensity for mu- sic at last became so strong , that his father , who designed him for the civil law , thought proper , even at this early period to forbid him to touch any DICTIONARY . 7.
12. oldal
... thought better suited to the native gravity of an English audience . But as the subjects of these pieces were always taken from sacred history , it was by some thought to be a pro- fanation to set them to music and perform them at a ...
... thought better suited to the native gravity of an English audience . But as the subjects of these pieces were always taken from sacred history , it was by some thought to be a pro- fanation to set them to music and perform them at a ...
23. oldal
... thought it necessary to attend only to that . He had long felt the approach of a disorder in the bladder , which , increasing by degrees , caused a stranguary , and at length , on the 5th of September , put an end to his valuable life ...
... thought it necessary to attend only to that . He had long felt the approach of a disorder in the bladder , which , increasing by degrees , caused a stranguary , and at length , on the 5th of September , put an end to his valuable life ...
25. oldal
... thought adviseable , that he should leave Charleston , as the British troops were preparing to lay siege to it . Hearing of its surrender , which happened on the 12th May following , he journeyed towards his native soil , and in the ...
... thought adviseable , that he should leave Charleston , as the British troops were preparing to lay siege to it . Hearing of its surrender , which happened on the 12th May following , he journeyed towards his native soil , and in the ...
46. oldal
... thought on his own carriage , till Mrs. Hogarth , surprised to see him so wet , asked him where he had left it ? The last memorable event in our artist's life , was his quarrel with the noted Mr. Wilkes ; in which , if Mr. Hogarth did ...
... thought on his own carriage , till Mrs. Hogarth , surprised to see him so wet , asked him where he had left it ? The last memorable event in our artist's life , was his quarrel with the noted Mr. Wilkes ; in which , if Mr. Hogarth did ...
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