The Dictionary of National Biography, Volumen10Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1908 |
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... court , where he held the post of a groom of the bedchamber . As a major - general he commanded a brigade at Dettingen and at Fontenoy , where he received four wounds , and afterwards under Wade and Cumberland in the north . He ...
... court , where he held the post of a groom of the bedchamber . As a major - general he commanded a brigade at Dettingen and at Fontenoy , where he received four wounds , and afterwards under Wade and Cumberland in the north . He ...
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... court of exchequer , 2 vols . 8vo , Dublin , 1760. 3. " The Rules and Prac- tice of the High Court of Chancery in Ire- land , ' 8vo , Dublin , 1772. 4. A Supplement to the Rules and Practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland ...
... court of exchequer , 2 vols . 8vo , Dublin , 1760. 3. " The Rules and Prac- tice of the High Court of Chancery in Ire- land , ' 8vo , Dublin , 1772. 4. A Supplement to the Rules and Practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland ...
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... court . In 1735 cession of the elector to the English throne as she married the Hon . George Berkeley , George I , Howard was appointed his groom youngest son of the second earl of Berkeley , of the bedchamber , and his wife bedchamber ...
... court . In 1735 cession of the elector to the English throne as she married the Hon . George Berkeley , George I , Howard was appointed his groom youngest son of the second earl of Berkeley , of the bedchamber , and his wife bedchamber ...
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... Court of ambassadors from France . In December Henry was known to be dying , and speculation was rife at court as to who should be selected by the king to fill the post of protector or regent during the minority of Prince Edward . The ...
... Court of ambassadors from France . In December Henry was known to be dying , and speculation was rife at court as to who should be selected by the king to fill the post of protector or regent during the minority of Prince Edward . The ...
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... court about 1570 , but the intrigues of which his brother , Thomas Howard , fourth duke of Norfolk , was suspected at the time , depressed his prospects ( cf. his Latin letter to Burgh- ley , 22 Sept. 1571 , in Cott . MS . Cal . C. iii ...
... court about 1570 , but the intrigues of which his brother , Thomas Howard , fourth duke of Norfolk , was suspected at the time , depressed his prospects ( cf. his Latin letter to Burgh- ley , 22 Sept. 1571 , in Cott . MS . Cal . C. iii ...
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Página 270 - PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
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Página 274 - Well, I call this an excellent good book, by far the best of the autobiographic kind I remember to have read in the English language ; and indeed, except it be Boswell's of Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of a human life, as in these three volumes. " A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book; imaging, with graceful honesty and free felicity, many interesting objects and persons on your life-path, and imaging throughout, what is best of all, a gifted, gentle, patient,...
Página 435 - Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in Sunshine, and of Injuring It in the Shade and at Night.
Página 127 - The Northern Heights of London ; or, Historical Associations of Hampstead, Highgate, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, and Islington. By WILLIAM HOWITT. With about 40 Woodcuts. Square crown 8vo.
Página 225 - I returned to Edinburgh in 1769 very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of 1000/. a year), healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years, with the prospect of enjoying long my ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation.
Página 357 - In the interpretation of nature, he remarks, "no powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted of except those of which we know the principle, and no extraordinary events to be alleged in order to explain a common appearance.
Página 481 - ... pompous and expensive vanities ; having erected for himself a more glorious monument in the hearts of good men, by his affection to his country, his abilities of mind, his impartial justice, his diligence in the public service, and his other virtues ; which were a far greater honour to his memory, than a dormitory amongst the ashes of kings, who, says he, for the most part, as they had governed others by their passions, so were they themselves as much governed by them.
Página 497 - IRWIN (EYLES). A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt ; and of a route through the Deserts of Thebaïs, hitherto unknown to the European travellers, in the year 1777...
Página 385 - I intended it ; the truth is, his behaviour and humour was grown so unsupportable to myself, and to all the world else, that I could not longer endure it, and it was impossible for me to live with it and do those things with the Parliament that must be done, or the Government will be lost.