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], 1815 |
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... England , he was again success- ful , in the bloody battle of Nerwinde , where there fell on the two sides near 20,000 men . It was said in France , that on this occasion they should not sing Te Deum , but VOL . XXI . B De profundis ...
... England , he was again success- ful , in the bloody battle of Nerwinde , where there fell on the two sides near 20,000 men . It was said in France , that on this occasion they should not sing Te Deum , but VOL . XXI . B De profundis ...
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... England , the lord - deputy and chancellor of Ireland made him , at his request , a joint promise of a competent support , upon his coming back thither . This appears to have been the mastership of the school at Armagh , endowed with ...
... England , the lord - deputy and chancellor of Ireland made him , at his request , a joint promise of a competent support , upon his coming back thither . This appears to have been the mastership of the school at Armagh , endowed with ...
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... England . For the farther advancement of this design , he also requested the king would apply , by his ambassadors and ministers , to such princes as were in alliance with him , for a similar privilege to be granted to Lydiat and his ...
... England . For the farther advancement of this design , he also requested the king would apply , by his ambassadors and ministers , to such princes as were in alliance with him , for a similar privilege to be granted to Lydiat and his ...
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... England in 1732 , he obtained an appointment at the court of Denmark ; but , being ambitious of a more public station , he volunteered his services in the home and foreign department , and displayed so much activity that he was ...
... England in 1732 , he obtained an appointment at the court of Denmark ; but , being ambitious of a more public station , he volunteered his services in the home and foreign department , and displayed so much activity that he was ...
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... England , and which he had declared and maintained in his " Via tuta . " Accordingly , in his funeral sermon by Dr. Daniel Featly , he is not only styled " a general scholar , an ac- complished gentleman , a gracious Christian , a ...
... England , and which he had declared and maintained in his " Via tuta . " Accordingly , in his funeral sermon by Dr. Daniel Featly , he is not only styled " a general scholar , an ac- complished gentleman , a gracious Christian , a ...
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Página 325 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Página 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Página 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Página 286 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Página 423 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Página 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Página 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Página 390 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 449 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Página 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.