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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... whole Bible , " which is a translation of the Dutch Bible , ordered by the synod of Dort , and first pub- lished in 1637. Wood says that the Dutch translators were assisted in this undertaking by bishops Carleton , Davenant , Hall , and ...
... whole Bible , " which is a translation of the Dutch Bible , ordered by the synod of Dort , and first pub- lished in 1637. Wood says that the Dutch translators were assisted in this undertaking by bishops Carleton , Davenant , Hall , and ...
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... whole time between the duties of religion and the studies of his profession . Noy , the attorney - general , who was one of the most eminent men of his profession , took early notice of him , directed him in his studies , and discovered ...
... whole time between the duties of religion and the studies of his profession . Noy , the attorney - general , who was one of the most eminent men of his profession , took early notice of him , directed him in his studies , and discovered ...
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... whole of that 66 work . After his death , appeared , 1. " The Pleas of the Crown , or a Methodical Summary , " 1678 , 8vo , continued by Jacob and reprinted in 1716. To this edition is often annexed " The Treatise of Sheriffs ' Accounts ...
... whole of that 66 work . After his death , appeared , 1. " The Pleas of the Crown , or a Methodical Summary , " 1678 , 8vo , continued by Jacob and reprinted in 1716. To this edition is often annexed " The Treatise of Sheriffs ' Accounts ...
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... whole . Both Wood and Des Maizeaux have misrepresented this expression , which we give on the authority of Mr. Montague , one of his executors . About the same time he refused a liberal offer from a gentleman of the Sedley family , in ...
... whole . Both Wood and Des Maizeaux have misrepresented this expression , which we give on the authority of Mr. Montague , one of his executors . About the same time he refused a liberal offer from a gentleman of the Sedley family , in ...
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... whole library , save a few books which he had 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 ...
... whole library , save a few books which he had 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 ...
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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...