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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... DUKE OF ) , a very celebrated general and mareschal of France , was a posthumous son of the famous Bouteville , who was beheaded under Louis XIII . for fighting a duel . He was born in 1628 , and in 1643 was present at the battle of ...
... DUKE OF ) , a very celebrated general and mareschal of France , was a posthumous son of the famous Bouteville , who was beheaded under Louis XIII . for fighting a duel . He was born in 1628 , and in 1643 was present at the battle of ...
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... duke , " How should he know , " said he , " the shape of my back ? I am sure he never saw me turn it to him . ” The last great action of the duke's life was a second famous retreat , in the presence of superior forces , through a con ...
... duke , " How should he know , " said he , " the shape of my back ? I am sure he never saw me turn it to him . ” The last great action of the duke's life was a second famous retreat , in the presence of superior forces , through a con ...
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... duke of Warwick , who died that year . Some authorities place his death in 1461 , and this date Mr. Ellis thinks is not improbable . He was , says Warton , who of all our modern critics has considered him with most attention , a monk of ...
... duke of Warwick , who died that year . Some authorities place his death in 1461 , and this date Mr. Ellis thinks is not improbable . He was , says Warton , who of all our modern critics has considered him with most attention , a monk of ...
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... duke of Richelieu , commander of the French forces , and the duke of Cumberland , who was then at the head of the allied army . In this , however , he met with many difficulties , as the history of that convention shows ; and the king ...
... duke of Richelieu , commander of the French forces , and the duke of Cumberland , who was then at the head of the allied army . In this , however , he met with many difficulties , as the history of that convention shows ; and the king ...
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... duke of Saxony , and became a minister of the church of Wittemberg in 1577. He was one of the first to sign the " Concord , " and was deputed , with James Andreas , to procure the signature of the divines and mi- nisters in the ...
... duke of Saxony , and became a minister of the church of Wittemberg in 1577. He was one of the first to sign the " Concord , " and was deputed , with James Andreas , to procure the signature of the divines and mi- nisters in the ...
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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.