A Universal Biographical Dictionary, Containing the Lives of the Most Celebratd Characters of Every Age and Nation: ... to which is Added, a Dictionary of the Principal Divinities and Heroes of Grecian and Roman Mythology; and a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living CharactersAndrus & Judd, 1833 - 444 oldal |
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... merit , born at Leyden in 1498. It was a custom with this painter never to work on Mondays , but to devote that day with his disciples to the bottle . He used to stroll about the streets in the night , playing on the German flute ; and ...
... merit , born at Leyden in 1498. It was a custom with this painter never to work on Mondays , but to devote that day with his disciples to the bottle . He used to stroll about the streets in the night , playing on the German flute ; and ...
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... merit , " and of another , " Of dying for one's ambitious views of the impostor ; but when de - country , ) was born at Ulm , and died at Bucke feated in the battle of Bedr , was reconciled to berg , 1766 , aged 28 . his nephew ...
... merit , " and of another , " Of dying for one's ambitious views of the impostor ; but when de - country , ) was born at Ulm , and died at Bucke feated in the battle of Bedr , was reconciled to berg , 1766 , aged 28 . his nephew ...
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... merit was protected and encouraged at the court of Aaron Raschid . ABOU - RIHAN , a gcographer and astronomer , who employed 40 years of his life in travelling through India . of Geography of the regions beyond the river Oxus . He began ...
... merit was protected and encouraged at the court of Aaron Raschid . ABOU - RIHAN , a gcographer and astronomer , who employed 40 years of his life in travelling through India . of Geography of the regions beyond the river Oxus . He began ...
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... merit to the highest honours in the se Saone , died 530 . vice of Charles VI . of France . AGRICOLA , John , a German divine , born at Isleb , was the friend and disciple of Luther , and afterwards opposed him ; he died 1566 . AGRIPPA ...
... merit to the highest honours in the se Saone , died 530 . vice of Charles VI . of France . AGRICOLA , John , a German divine , born at Isleb , was the friend and disciple of Luther , and afterwards opposed him ; he died 1566 . AGRIPPA ...
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... merit and prevailed on him tere gravity . Aldhelm lived in great esteem till to remove to Bourges , where his law lectures his death , which happened May 25 , 709 . were much admired . The duke of Milan in- ALDHUN , a famous bishop ...
... merit and prevailed on him tere gravity . Aldhelm lived in great esteem till to remove to Bourges , where his law lectures his death , which happened May 25 , 709 . were much admired . The duke of Milan in- ALDHUN , a famous bishop ...
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4. oldal - an Act, supplementary to an act) entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
196. oldal - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
52. oldal - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
98. oldal - In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.
233. oldal - Revisal of Shakspeare's Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
183. oldal - THIS modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, * Here lies an honest man :' A poet, bless'd beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's...
61. oldal - A SERIOUS remonstrance in behalf of the Christian religion, against the horrid blasphemies and impieties which are still used in the English play-houses, to the great dishonour of Almighty God, and in contempt of the statutes of this realm.
322. oldal - Drawings of some Ruins and Colossal Statues at Thebes, in Egypt, with an account of the same, in a Letter to the Royal Society.
152. oldal - He immediately clapped his hand on his sword , and the lord admiral stepping in between, he swore a great oath, declaring that he neither could nor would put up with an affront of that nature ; that he would not have taken it at the hands of Henry VIII , and in a great passion immediately withdrew from court.
12. oldal - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness : it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.