The General Biographical Dictionary, 21. kötetJ. Nichols, 1815 |
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... English poet , is recorded as one of the immediate successors of Chaucer . The few dates that have been recovered of his history are , that he was ordained a sub - deacon in 1389 ; a deacon in 1393 , and a priest in 1397 ; from these it ...
... English poet , is recorded as one of the immediate successors of Chaucer . The few dates that have been recovered of his history are , that he was ordained a sub - deacon in 1389 ; a deacon in 1393 , and a priest in 1397 ; from these it ...
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Alexander Chalmers. > perspicuity in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader . Lydgate's pieces are very numerous . Ritson has given a list of two hundred and fifty - one , some of which he ad- mits may not ...
Alexander Chalmers. > perspicuity in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader . Lydgate's pieces are very numerous . Ritson has given a list of two hundred and fifty - one , some of which he ad- mits may not ...
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... 1770 . 6. " The real state of Europe in the year 1737 , " and several other articles in Busching's Magazine for History and Geography . ' 1 Athenæum , vol . III . LYNDE ( Sir HUMPHREY ) , a learned English gentle- LYNAR . 13.
... 1770 . 6. " The real state of Europe in the year 1737 , " and several other articles in Busching's Magazine for History and Geography . ' 1 Athenæum , vol . III . LYNDE ( Sir HUMPHREY ) , a learned English gentle- LYNAR . 13.
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Alexander Chalmers. LYNDE ( Sir HUMPHREY ) , a learned English gentle- man , was descended from a family in Dorsetshire , and born in 1579. Being sent to Westminster school , he was ad- mitted scholar upon the foundation , and thence ...
Alexander Chalmers. LYNDE ( Sir HUMPHREY ) , a learned English gentle- man , was descended from a family in Dorsetshire , and born in 1579. Being sent to Westminster school , he was ad- mitted scholar upon the foundation , and thence ...
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... English plants , but even the synonyma of the old botanists , which form a strange and barbarous farrago of great bulk ; and had collected large materials for a " Flora Cantabrigien- sis , " describing fully every part of each plant ...
... English plants , but even the synonyma of the old botanists , which form a strange and barbarous farrago of great bulk ; and had collected large materials for a " Flora Cantabrigien- sis , " describing fully every part of each plant ...
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9. oldal - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
79. oldal - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
66. oldal - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
24. oldal - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
28. oldal - Thus he continued giving his dying benediction to all around him. On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening; and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morning, August 22, when between seven and eight o'clock he expired, almost without a groan.
227. oldal - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
394. oldal - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
453. oldal - Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late rev. Thomas Baker, BD of St. John's-college, from the papers of Dr. Zachary Grey, with a Catalogue of his MS Collections," Cambridge, 8vo; and in 1790 "A Catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges of the university of Cambridge,
111. oldal - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.
195. oldal - I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind.