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], 1813 |
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... successful that Maho- met received him into friendship , and bestowed on him his own mantle , which the caliph Moavias purchased when he came to the throne , and it became the dress of his suc- cessors on state occasions . Caab is also ...
... successful that Maho- met received him into friendship , and bestowed on him his own mantle , which the caliph Moavias purchased when he came to the throne , and it became the dress of his suc- cessors on state occasions . Caab is also ...
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... success ; although having caught the revolutionary phrensy , his studies became interrupted by his political engagements . He is said , however , to have had no hand in any of the excesses which arose out of the fury of contending ...
... success ; although having caught the revolutionary phrensy , his studies became interrupted by his political engagements . He is said , however , to have had no hand in any of the excesses which arose out of the fury of contending ...
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... success of this voyage . It is also mentioned , as an evidence of his cheerful temper , that he caused a grand entertainment to be made at the sign of the Christopher , at Gravesend , on this occasion ; and , as Mr. Burroughs says ...
... success of this voyage . It is also mentioned , as an evidence of his cheerful temper , that he caused a grand entertainment to be made at the sign of the Christopher , at Gravesend , on this occasion ; and , as Mr. Burroughs says ...
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... success such as Mr. Cadell experienced , and which must depend ultimately on the pleasure of the pub- lic , chance may be supposed to have some influence , yet it is but justice to add that Mr. Cadell had acquired , by what- ever means ...
... success such as Mr. Cadell experienced , and which must depend ultimately on the pleasure of the pub- lic , chance may be supposed to have some influence , yet it is but justice to add that Mr. Cadell had acquired , by what- ever means ...
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... successful works , and that at a time when their success could be only in his own contem- plation ; and when that success seemed to be delayed be- yond all reasonable hope , even in such cases the final issue justified his original ...
... successful works , and that at a time when their success could be only in his own contem- plation ; and when that success seemed to be delayed be- yond all reasonable hope , even in such cases the final issue justified his original ...
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344. oldal - Edge-hill, when the enemy was routed, he was like to have incurred great peril by interposing to save those who had thrown away their arms, and against whom it may be others were more fierce for their having thrown them away ; so that a man might think he came into the field chiefly out of curiosity to see the face of danger, and charity to prevent the shedding of blood.
337. oldal - Parliament he was a Burgess in the House of Commons, and from the debates, which were there managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to Parliaments that he thought it really impossible they could ever produce mischief or inconvenience to the kingdom, or that the kingdom could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them...
341. oldal - From the entrance into this unnatural war, his natural cheerfulness and vivacity grew clouded, and a kind of sadness and dejection of spirit stole upon him, which he had never been used to ; yet being one of those who believed that...
342. oldal - That his office could not take away the privileges of his age, and that a Secretary in War might be present at the greatest secret of danger...
240. oldal - ... of the language in which that fancy was : spread, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time : but his glory was, that after fifty years of his life, spent with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that license, and with the greatest manifestation of Christianity, that his best friends could desire.
341. oldal - ... and affable to all men that his face and countenance was always present and vacant to his company, and held any cloudiness and less pleasantness of the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable, and thence very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen. In his clothes and habit, which he had minded before always with more neatness and industry and expense than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent...
369. oldal - Platonic philosophy, as it hath reference to Christianity : as also the business of witches and witchcraft, against a late writer, fully argued and disputed.
344. oldal - ... upon any occasion of action he always engaged his person in those troops, which he thought by the forwardness of the commanders, to be most like to be farthest engaged...
240. oldal - He was a person of a. pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems, especially in the amorous way, which, for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegancy of the language in which that fancy was spread, were at least equal, if not superior, to any of that time...
344. oldal - And he was so great an enemy to that passion and uncharitableness, which he saw produced by difference of opinion in matters of religion, that in all those disputations with priests and others of the Roman church, he affected to manifest all possible civility to their persons and estimation of their parts...