A New Biographical Dictionary:: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons and Remarkable Characters in Every Age and NationLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Harris, Peacocks and Bampton; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Wallis; Wilkie and Robinson; and J. Walker., 1811 - 488 oldal |
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... esteemed lard was treated with the utmost works are a set of sermons on the humanity and tenderness . At length , " Divine and Moral Attributes . " being grown infirm from the preva ABSTEMIUS ( LAURENTIUS ) lence of the scurvy and other ...
... esteemed lard was treated with the utmost works are a set of sermons on the humanity and tenderness . At length , " Divine and Moral Attributes . " being grown infirm from the preva ABSTEMIUS ( LAURENTIUS ) lence of the scurvy and other ...
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... esteemed the best of that artist's works . He died 1640 . ALEYN ( CHARLES ) an histo . rical poet in the reign of Charles I. received his education at Sidney college , Cambridge , He wrote " The battles of Cressy and Poic- tiers ...
... esteemed the best of that artist's works . He died 1640 . ALEYN ( CHARLES ) an histo . rical poet in the reign of Charles I. received his education at Sidney college , Cambridge , He wrote " The battles of Cressy and Poic- tiers ...
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... esteemed for the gentleness and simplicity of his manners as for his extensive knowledge . He laboured at his maps 15 hours a day for 50 years . APELLES , one of the most ce- lebrated painters of antiquity , was him ; and it was from ...
... esteemed for the gentleness and simplicity of his manners as for his extensive knowledge . He laboured at his maps 15 hours a day for 50 years . APELLES , one of the most ce- lebrated painters of antiquity , was him ; and it was from ...
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... esteemed pretty good discovered with any certainty , as of their kind , and died in the year no ancient author has mentioned 1556 , being about 65 years old . him . ARGENS ( JEAN BAPTISTE ARISTARCHUS , a Grecian phi- DE BOYER , Marquis ...
... esteemed pretty good discovered with any certainty , as of their kind , and died in the year no ancient author has mentioned 1556 , being about 65 years old . him . ARGENS ( JEAN BAPTISTE ARISTARCHUS , a Grecian phi- DE BOYER , Marquis ...
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... esteemed by the best the different methods of education ; judges . Arrian is said to have written several other works . this gave rise to his treatise on that subject , entitled " The Schoolmas- ter , " which he undertook at the ...
... esteemed by the best the different methods of education ; judges . Arrian is said to have written several other works . this gave rise to his treatise on that subject , entitled " The Schoolmas- ter , " which he undertook at the ...
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6. oldal - The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
213. oldal - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
41. oldal - BACON (SiR NICHOLAS), lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of queen Elizabeth, descended from an ancient and honourable family in Suffolk.
303. oldal - Puritans," under the title of, " A Vindication of the Government, Doctrine, and Worship of the Church of England, established in the reign of queen Elizabeth :" of which the late bishop Hallifax said, " a better vindication of the reformed church of England, I never read.
32. oldal - He followed his studies with most extraordinary diligence, so that he soon surpassed all in Plato's school. He ate little, and slept less ; and that he might not oversleep himself, Diogenes Laertius tells us, that he laid always with one hand out of bed, having a ball of brass in it, which by its falling into a basin of the same metal, awaked him.