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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... father , who became his preceptor , and evidently sent him into the world a man of elegant accomplishments and virtues . Although allied to some noble families , and occasionally mixing in the gaieties of high life , his natural ...
... father , who became his preceptor , and evidently sent him into the world a man of elegant accomplishments and virtues . Although allied to some noble families , and occasionally mixing in the gaieties of high life , his natural ...
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... father was minister from the king of Denmark to the circles of Lower Saxony , a well informed man , who associated with men of letters , and was capable of giving a direction to his son's studies suitable to his genius . By various mis ...
... father was minister from the king of Denmark to the circles of Lower Saxony , a well informed man , who associated with men of letters , and was capable of giving a direction to his son's studies suitable to his genius . By various mis ...
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... father Tellier , the king's confessor , and director of the corporation of artisans . In the latter part of his life he was much afflicted with the ague , but bore it with great resignation . He was a man of an amiable temper , and of ...
... father Tellier , the king's confessor , and director of the corporation of artisans . In the latter part of his life he was much afflicted with the ague , but bore it with great resignation . He was a man of an amiable temper , and of ...
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... father then resided , but ac- cording to his register at Corpus college , Oxford , at High- church . His parents , who are stated to have been of " genteel quality , " placed him to school at Mells and Kill- maston , in Somersetshire ...
... father then resided , but ac- cording to his register at Corpus college , Oxford , at High- church . His parents , who are stated to have been of " genteel quality , " placed him to school at Mells and Kill- maston , in Somersetshire ...
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... father was preceptor to Charles I. and afterwards provost of Eton college , and her mother was subgoverness to the duke of Gloucester and the princess Elizabeth . Anne was instructed by her parents in every polite and liberal science ...
... father was preceptor to Charles I. and afterwards provost of Eton college , and her mother was subgoverness to the duke of Gloucester and the princess Elizabeth . Anne was instructed by her parents in every polite and liberal science ...
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Seite 97 - 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.
Seite 117 - Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be of the most discerning spirit, and of the greatest address and insinuation to bring any thing to pass which he desired, of any man of that time, and who laid the design deepest.
Seite 273 - A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, A North West Passage, &c. In the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. By Samuel Hearne London, 1795.
Seite 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...
Seite 277 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Seite 371 - ... me that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Seite 30 - Jurisdiction of the House of Lords," with an introductory preface, including a narrative of the same jurisdiction, from the accession of James I. 5. " Analysis of the Law," without date, but seems to have been only a design for, 6. " History of the Common Law of England, in twelve chapters,
Seite 85 - Traité des arbres et arbustes qui se cultivent en France en pleine terre...
Seite 374 - Court conversation, mixed with a laudable ambition to be something more than he then was, drew him often from Cambridge to attend the king wheresoever the Court was, who then gave him a sinecure which fell into his Majesty's disposal, I think, by the death of the Bishop of...
Seite 40 - Hemastaticks," and came out in 1733. In this the subject of the urinary calculus also is treated chemically and medically. With a laudable view of preventing as well as curing, the sufferings and crimes of his fellow-creatures, this good man published anonymously '• a friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, brandy, and other spirituous liquors...