The General Biographical Dictionary, Band 15Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... taken into his ser- vice ; and , according to Lloyd , was the person who encou- raged the cardinal to aspire to the papacy . In 1528 he was sent ambassador to Rome , jointly with Stephen Gar- diner , afterwards bishop of Winchester , in ...
... taken into his ser- vice ; and , according to Lloyd , was the person who encou- raged the cardinal to aspire to the papacy . In 1528 he was sent ambassador to Rome , jointly with Stephen Gar- diner , afterwards bishop of Winchester , in ...
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... taken great pains in educating his son in the principles of piety and virtue . He was , at a proper age , apprenticed to a dealer in wool , and grazier , and being also employed in keeping sheep , he bad many opportunities for ...
... taken great pains in educating his son in the principles of piety and virtue . He was , at a proper age , apprenticed to a dealer in wool , and grazier , and being also employed in keeping sheep , he bad many opportunities for ...
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... taken into custody , and . thrown into Worcester gaol under the charge of having " held a meeting from all parts of the nation , for terri- fying the king's subjects . " After being acquitted , he went to Holland , and on his return a ...
... taken into custody , and . thrown into Worcester gaol under the charge of having " held a meeting from all parts of the nation , for terri- fying the king's subjects . " After being acquitted , he went to Holland , and on his return a ...
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... taken from the scriptures . We have a comedy of his , entitled , " De Christo Triumphante , " printed in 1551 , and at Basil in 1556 , 8vo ; which was translated into English by Richard Day , son of John Day , the famous printer in the ...
... taken from the scriptures . We have a comedy of his , entitled , " De Christo Triumphante , " printed in 1551 , and at Basil in 1556 , 8vo ; which was translated into English by Richard Day , son of John Day , the famous printer in the ...
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... taken into the house of sir Thomas Lucy of Warwickshire , to be tutor to his children . Here he married a citizen's daughter of Coventry , and continued in sir Thomas's family , till his children were grown up ; after which he spent ...
... taken into the house of sir Thomas Lucy of Warwickshire , to be tutor to his children . Here he married a citizen's daughter of Coventry , and continued in sir Thomas's family , till his children were grown up ; after which he spent ...
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Seite 463 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, 1 Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent.
Seite 350 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Seite 454 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 472 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions . of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Seite 89 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Seite 195 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Seite 210 - In his fancy pictures, when he had fixed on his object of imitation, whether it was the mean and vulgar form of a wood-cutter, or a child of an interesting character, as he did not attempt to raise the one, so neither did he lose any of the natural grace and elegance, of the other ; such a grace, and such an elegance, as are more frequently found in cottages than in courts. This excellence was his own, the result of his particular observation and taste; for this he was certainly not indebted to the...
Seite 113 - The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Seite 449 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Seite 312 - We are now in an age wherein impudent assertions must pass for arguments : and I do not question, but the same who has endeavoured here to prove, that he who wrote the Dispensary was no poet, will very suddenly undertake to shew, that he who gained the battle of Blenheim is no general.