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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... tion that the United Provinces of Holland have at any time possessed . He was the first person ever recognised as Dutch ambassador by the French court : the first of three extraordinary ! ABASSON , an impostor , who , under the ...
... tion that the United Provinces of Holland have at any time possessed . He was the first person ever recognised as Dutch ambassador by the French court : the first of three extraordinary ! ABASSON , an impostor , who , under the ...
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... tion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. , and founder of Dulwich college in 1619 , which he named " the college of God's gift . " An idle tra- dition hath assigned the following as his motive for endowing it : that once ...
... tion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. , and founder of Dulwich college in 1619 , which he named " the college of God's gift . " An idle tra- dition hath assigned the following as his motive for endowing it : that once ...
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... tion , time of his death not known . ANEURIN , an ancient British poet , died about 570 , supposed by some to be the same the venerable Gildas . as ANIELLO , Thomas , vid . ANELLO . ANKERSTAOOM , John James , a Swedish officer who ...
... tion , time of his death not known . ANEURIN , an ancient British poet , died about 570 , supposed by some to be the same the venerable Gildas . as ANIELLO , Thomas , vid . ANELLO . ANKERSTAOOM , John James , a Swedish officer who ...
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... tion of his son . ANTIGONUS , Doson , king of Macedonia , took Sparta , aud defeated the Illyrians ; he died 221 B. C. ANTIGONUS , Carystius , a Greek philoso- pher , about 300 years B. C. ANTIGONUS , Sochæus , founder of the sect of ...
... tion of his son . ANTIGONUS , Doson , king of Macedonia , took Sparta , aud defeated the Illyrians ; he died 221 B. C. ANTIGONUS , Carystius , a Greek philoso- pher , about 300 years B. C. ANTIGONUS , Sochæus , founder of the sect of ...
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... tion : he seemed to be all goodness ; talked of ANTONINUS PHILOSOPHOS , Marcus Au- nothing but healing measures ; and , as a proof relius , the Roman emperor , born at Rome , the of his sincerity , moved that the conspirators 96th of ...
... tion : he seemed to be all goodness ; talked of ANTONINUS PHILOSOPHOS , Marcus Au- nothing but healing measures ; and , as a proof relius , the Roman emperor , born at Rome , the of his sincerity , moved that the conspirators 96th of ...
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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.