Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography: Containing Succinct Accounts of the Most Eminent Persons in All Ages, Countries, and ProfessionsPorter & Coates, 1883 - 590 Seiten |
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... sent by the Queen on a special mission to Rome , to present King Humbert with the Order of the Garter . Three of his sons were recently members of the House of Commons . In politics he is a Conservative . Abercrombie , James , an ...
... sent by the Queen on a special mission to Rome , to present King Humbert with the Order of the Garter . Three of his sons were recently members of the House of Commons . In politics he is a Conservative . Abercrombie , James , an ...
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... sent in 1797 in the same capacity to Berlin . He was subsequently Senator of the United States , and professor of rhetoric and belles - lettres at Harvard College , where his lectures attracted great admiration . As a Senator , Adams ...
... sent in 1797 in the same capacity to Berlin . He was subsequently Senator of the United States , and professor of rhetoric and belles - lettres at Harvard College , where his lectures attracted great admiration . As a Senator , Adams ...
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... Sent as agent for the Duke of Parma to the court of Madrid , he became a favor- ite of Philip V. , who obtained for him a Cardinal's hat and made him Prime Minister of Spain in 1716 . Ambitious to restore that country to its former ...
... Sent as agent for the Duke of Parma to the court of Madrid , he became a favor- ite of Philip V. , who obtained for him a Cardinal's hat and made him Prime Minister of Spain in 1716 . Ambitious to restore that country to its former ...
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... sent Austin to the City of Mexico to obtain for them admission to the Mexican confeder- acy ; but he found the country in a state of anarchy and totally failed in his mission , and was himself impris- oned in that city until September ...
... sent Austin to the City of Mexico to obtain for them admission to the Mexican confeder- acy ; but he found the country in a state of anarchy and totally failed in his mission , and was himself impris- oned in that city until September ...
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... sent as Minister to Eng- land . Returning to America in 1849 , he took up his residence in New York and devoted most of his time to writ ing his History , the tenth volume of which appeared in 1874. He con- tributed numerous articles to ...
... sent as Minister to Eng- land . Returning to America in 1849 , he took up his residence in New York and devoted most of his time to writ ing his History , the tenth volume of which appeared in 1874. He con- tributed numerous articles to ...
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Seite 362 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Seite 519 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Seite 362 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Seite 388 - Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...
Seite 89 - Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written.
Seite 108 - ... whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us he is still a man, young, noble, and unhappy. To our children he will be merely a writer ; and their impartial judgment will appoint his place among writers, without regard to his rank or to his private history. That his poetry will undergo a severe sifting, that much of what has been admired by his contemporaries will be rejected as worthless, we have little doubt. But we have as little doubt that, after...
Seite 167 - It may be affirmed, without any encomiastic fervour, that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning, and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply...
Seite 363 - He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.
Seite 101 - Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress.
Seite 584 - It is a singular fact that the will of the donor was made on the very day on which the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the College, Mr.