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], 1814 |
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... honour . After giving public lectures for some years at Halle , he was appointed professor of his- tory at Helmstadt , though but twenty - four years old , and afterwards was made counsellor , historiographer , and libra- rian to his ...
... honour . After giving public lectures for some years at Halle , he was appointed professor of his- tory at Helmstadt , though but twenty - four years old , and afterwards was made counsellor , historiographer , and libra- rian to his ...
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... honour to his name and memory , from mariners of all ranks , in the most distant nations no less than his own . Of this there are several instances ; and particularly in those northern dis- coveries made at the charges of the Muscovy ...
... honour to his name and memory , from mariners of all ranks , in the most distant nations no less than his own . Of this there are several instances ; and particularly in those northern dis- coveries made at the charges of the Muscovy ...
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... honour , by declining for a considerable time all opportunities of waiting on the king ; which Cla- rendon observing , sent for him upon business one day , when the king was at his house , and told his majesty , " there was his modest ...
... honour , by declining for a considerable time all opportunities of waiting on the king ; which Cla- rendon observing , sent for him upon business one day , when the king was at his house , and told his majesty , " there was his modest ...
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... honour , ” Mr. Montague , mentioned here as an overseer or executor , was at that time usher of Eton school , afterwards head - master , and then fellow of the college . Mrs. Dickenson afterwards was married to Simon Powney , and has ...
... honour , ” Mr. Montague , mentioned here as an overseer or executor , was at that time usher of Eton school , afterwards head - master , and then fellow of the college . Mrs. Dickenson afterwards was married to Simon Powney , and has ...
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... honoured , both at home and abroad . The fame of Hales was widely diffused throughout the learned world , of which he ... honour . His experiments and remarks led the way to those of Du Hamel , Bonnet , and all that have fol- lowed . His ...
... honoured , both at home and abroad . The fame of Hales was widely diffused throughout the learned world , of which he ... honour . His experiments and remarks led the way to those of Du Hamel , Bonnet , and all that have fol- lowed . His ...
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Página 97 - This seems to have given him his first hold of the public attention ; for Waller remarked, "that he broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it ;" an observation which could have had no propriety, had his poetical abilities been known before.
Página 117 - Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring any thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest.
Página 273 - A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, A North West Passage, &c. In the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. By Samuel Hearne London, 1795.
Página 27 - Whereupon his grace, for he was a duke, went away not a little dissatisfied, and complained of it to the King, as a rudeness that was not to be endured. But his Majesty...
Página 277 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Página 371 - ... me that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Página 30 - Jurisdiction of the House of Lords," with an introductory preface, including a narrative of the same jurisdiction, from the accession of James I. 5. " Analysis of the Law," without date, but seems to have been only a design for, 6. " History of the Common Law of England, in twelve chapters,
Página 85 - Traité des arbres et arbustes qui se cultivent en France en pleine terre...
Página 374 - Court conversation, mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than he then was, drew him often from Cambridge to attend the king wheresoever the Court was, who then gave him a sinecure which fell into his Majesty's disposal, I think, by the death of the Bishop of...
Página 40 - Hemastaticks," and came out in 1733. In this the subject of the urinary calculus also is treated chemically and medically. With a laudable view of preventing as well as curing, the sufferings and crimes of his fellow-creatures, this good man published anonymously '• a friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, brandy, and other spirituous liquors...