The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Band 17Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... thought a proper person to succeed him in the mastership of Trinity - hall . In Sep- tember 1552 , through the earnest recommendation of the court , though not qualified according to the statutes , he was chosen president of Magdaien ...
... thought a proper person to succeed him in the mastership of Trinity - hall . In Sep- tember 1552 , through the earnest recommendation of the court , though not qualified according to the statutes , he was chosen president of Magdaien ...
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... thoughts are frequently cold , and the expression too concise . In subjects which require little taste and philosophy , he has succeeded better than in works of sen- timent and imagination . Of his taste at this time , he has given a ...
... thoughts are frequently cold , and the expression too concise . In subjects which require little taste and philosophy , he has succeeded better than in works of sen- timent and imagination . Of his taste at this time , he has given a ...
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... thought many of them had merited highly in the affair of the king's restoration , and at least deserved that the terms of conformity should not have been made stricter than they were before the war . In 1671 he was promoted to the place ...
... thought many of them had merited highly in the affair of the king's restoration , and at least deserved that the terms of conformity should not have been made stricter than they were before the war . In 1671 he was promoted to the place ...
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... thought matters of much interest or regret . * HALES , or HAYLES ( JOHN ) , a learned Englishman , was the younger son of Thomas Hales , of Hales ' - place , at Halden in Kent , and was liberally educated , although at no university ...
... thought matters of much interest or regret . * HALES , or HAYLES ( JOHN ) , a learned Englishman , was the younger son of Thomas Hales , of Hales ' - place , at Halden in Kent , and was liberally educated , although at no university ...
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... thought to be sir Robert Filmer , with caution : but it is finely and correctly printed , with a portrait of Mr. Hales . To these volumes of posthumous works we must add the letter to archbishop Laud , mentioned before , which was ...
... thought to be sir Robert Filmer , with caution : but it is finely and correctly printed , with a portrait of Mr. Hales . To these volumes of posthumous works we must add the letter to archbishop Laud , mentioned before , which was ...
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Seite 279 - 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 375 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud though yet gentle noise came from the heavens (for it was like nothing on earth), which did so comfort and cheer 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 119 - 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 375 - O thou eternal God, author of the light which now shines upon me, and giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech thee, of thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make ; I am not satisfied enough whether...
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 119 - He was of that rare affability and temper in debate, and of that seeming humility and submission of judgment, as if he brought no opinion of his own with him, but a desire of information and instruction ; yet he had so subtle a way of interrogating, and under the notion of doubts, insinuating his objections; that he infused his own opinions 'into those from whom he pretended to learn and receive them.
Seite 149 - October 26, 1712, he was elected a knight companion of the most noble order of the garter.
Seite 42 - 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...
Seite 119 - And even with them who were able to preserve themselves from his infusions, and discerned those opinions to be fixed in him with which they could not comply, he always left the character of an ingenious and conscientious person.
Seite 270 - The Scripture account of the attributes and worship of God, and of the character and offices of Jesus Christ, by a candid Enquirer after Truth.