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, Volumen 4Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1812 |
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... formed a conspiracy against the usurper , which was discovered . William fled ; but Réné was taken and condemned to die ; which fatal cir- cumstance has immortalized the memory of his mother , of whom the following anecdote is recorded ...
... formed a conspiracy against the usurper , which was discovered . William fled ; but Réné was taken and condemned to die ; which fatal cir- cumstance has immortalized the memory of his mother , of whom the following anecdote is recorded ...
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... formed against him in the university . At this time absolute predestination in the Calvinistical sense was held as the doctrine of the church of England . The chief advocates for it at Cam- bridge were Dr. Whitacre , regius professor of ...
... formed against him in the university . At this time absolute predestination in the Calvinistical sense was held as the doctrine of the church of England . The chief advocates for it at Cam- bridge were Dr. Whitacre , regius professor of ...
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... formed the plan , and became one of its members . He had two decided manners of painting , both with re- gard to colour and touch ; his first was rather heavy in both , his latter much lighter . Scarcely any painter equalled him in his ...
... formed the plan , and became one of its members . He had two decided manners of painting , both with re- gard to colour and touch ; his first was rather heavy in both , his latter much lighter . Scarcely any painter equalled him in his ...
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... forming and executing good designs for the encourage- ment of piety and literature . The state of the diocese of Mann at this time was deplorable , as to religion . The clergy were poor , illiterate , and careless , the people grossly ...
... forming and executing good designs for the encourage- ment of piety and literature . The state of the diocese of Mann at this time was deplorable , as to religion . The clergy were poor , illiterate , and careless , the people grossly ...
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... theory and practice was in many instances remarkable in Barry . When a design was formed of decorating St. Paul's ca- thedral with the works of our most eminent painters and sculptors , Barry was to have been employed , and 54 BARRY .
... theory and practice was in many instances remarkable in Barry . When a design was formed of decorating St. Paul's ca- thedral with the works of our most eminent painters and sculptors , Barry was to have been employed , and 54 BARRY .
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Página 193 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Página 492 - ... speeches, and the former resolutions of the house touching the forfeited estates in Ireland, to be printed and published for their justification ; and they resolved, that the procuring or passing exorbitant grants by any member, now of the privy council, or...
Página 198 - ... he had a very moving and pathetical way of writing, and was his whole life long a man of great zeal and much simplicity ; but was most unhappily subtle and metaphysical in every thing.
Página 196 - You humbly conceive," says Jefferies, " and I humbly conceive : swear him, swear him." " My lord," says he, " under favour, I am counsel for the defendant ; and, if I understand either Latin or English, the information now brought against Mr. Baxter upon such a slight ground, is a greater reflection upon the Church of England than anything contained in the book he is accused for.
Página 287 - There are In It a great many flowers well worth gathering, and a man who has the art of stealing wisely will find his account In reading It.
Página 258 - On Poetry and Music, On Laughter and Ludicrous Composition, and On the Utility of Classical Learning.
Página 197 - Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy. Thou pretendest to be a preacher of the gospel of peace, and thou hast one foot in the grave ; 'tis time for thee to begin to think what account thou intendest to give.
Página 479 - BEING THE TIME OF THE YEARLY MEETING OF THE CHILDREN EDUCATED IN THE CHARITY-SCHOOLS IN AND ABOUT THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER.
Página 269 - Greek characters, that those about him might not understand him, and afterwards he copied out the whole fair in his diary. This journal is inserted among the records in Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation. * Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, and cardinal priest of the church of Rome, was the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, by his third wife, Catharine Swinford.
Página 340 - May the last of the English rest in peace: For they had often said, That as they esteemed him the best of the English Bishops, so he should be the last that should be left among them.