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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... given him Camden's MS notes or annals of that king's reign ; but , these being lost in the confusion of the times , he was disabled from doing it . According to his biographer , Dr. Plume , he was zealous against popery , and all ...
... given him Camden's MS notes or annals of that king's reign ; but , these being lost in the confusion of the times , he was disabled from doing it . According to his biographer , Dr. Plume , he was zealous against popery , and all ...
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... given a bad specimen in his satire entitled " The Poet , " in which he puts Pietsch by the side of Virgil . About this time ( 1729 ) , he came to London with the Danish ambassador , baron Stoelenthal , and here he com- posed some of his ...
... given a bad specimen in his satire entitled " The Poet , " in which he puts Pietsch by the side of Virgil . About this time ( 1729 ) , he came to London with the Danish ambassador , baron Stoelenthal , and here he com- posed some of his ...
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... given by a judge not authorised by lawful commission , and execution is done accordingly , the judge is guilty of murder ; and upon this argument sir M. Hale himself , though he accepted the place of a judge of the common - pleas under ...
... given by a judge not authorised by lawful commission , and execution is done accordingly , the judge is guilty of murder ; and upon this argument sir M. Hale himself , though he accepted the place of a judge of the common - pleas under ...
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... given by Episcopius * of the text in St. John iii . 16 , induced him , as he said , to " bid John Calvin good - night . " It does not appear , however , from his sermons , that he became a decided anti - predestinarian , although he ...
... given by Episcopius * of the text in St. John iii . 16 , induced him , as he said , to " bid John Calvin good - night . " It does not appear , however , from his sermons , that he became a decided anti - predestinarian , although he ...
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... given away , and six or eight little books of devotion which lay in his chamber ; and that for money , he had no more than what he then shewed him , which was about seven or eight shillings ; and besides , ' says he , I doubt I am ...
... given away , and six or eight little books of devotion which lay in his chamber ; and that for money , he had no more than what he then shewed him , which was about seven or eight shillings ; and besides , ' says he , I doubt I am ...
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Página 373 - De veritate; if it be for thy glory, I beseech thee give me some sign from heaven; if not, I shall suppress it.
Página 373 - ... me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book. This, how strange soever it may seem, I protest before the eternal God is true, neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein, since I did not only clearly hear the noise, but in the serenest sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, did to my thinking see the place from whence it came.
Página 276 - A Vindication of those who take the Oath of Allegiance to his present majesty.
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 99 - 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 31 - They are a treasure, that are not fit for every man's view; nor is every man capable of making use of them : only I would have nothing of these books printed, but entirely preserved together, for the use of the industrious learned members of that society.
Página 119 - And even with them who were able * * to preserve themselves from his infusions, and discerned those opinions to be fixed in him, with which they could not comply, he always left the character of an ingenious and conscientious person.
Página 200 - erected a little academy for the education of the gentry of this nation, to advance piety, learning, morality, and other exercises of industry, not usual then in common schools.
Página 501 - The reason Mr. Jones assigns, was, that he made it an invariable rule, " to do justice to every consonant, knowing that the vowels will be sure to speak for themselves. And thus he became the surest and clearest of speakers : his elocution was perfect, and never disappointed his audience.