A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Том 1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... use nor entertainment in them . It is exceedingly defective both as to the number of the lives , and the fullness of the accounts : that is , its accounts of men are too general , too fuperficial , and indeed too short to give ...
... use nor entertainment in them . It is exceedingly defective both as to the number of the lives , and the fullness of the accounts : that is , its accounts of men are too general , too fuperficial , and indeed too short to give ...
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... use of in your canon ) con- cerns not me at all , I am the next heir , and the crown is mine by all rights you can name , but that of conqueft ; and Mr. Sollicitor has fufficiently expreffed my own thoughts concerning the nature of ...
... use of in your canon ) con- cerns not me at all , I am the next heir , and the crown is mine by all rights you can name , but that of conqueft ; and Mr. Sollicitor has fufficiently expreffed my own thoughts concerning the nature of ...
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... use of this fpeech , because the king ordered them to de- liver their opinions in few words . 1 He continued , however , inflexible in his opinion , and when fentence was pronounced , the court was divided in the following manner : The ...
... use of this fpeech , because the king ordered them to de- liver their opinions in few words . 1 He continued , however , inflexible in his opinion , and when fentence was pronounced , the court was divided in the following manner : The ...
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... use the most ' compulfive means , if necessary , · what was this but yielding her to · my wishes , and giving us an op- portunity , whether we would or not ; fince he gave me a power to ufe threats , and even ftripes , if gentleness ...
... use the most ' compulfive means , if necessary , · what was this but yielding her to · my wishes , and giving us an op- portunity , whether we would or not ; fince he gave me a power to ufe threats , and even ftripes , if gentleness ...
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... use fome ftrange gefticulations , and to exhibit di- vers feigned miracles , accompa- nied with fome wizardly unfooth- fayings , the drew much credit and ⚫ concourfe to her , infomuch that no mean perfons , and amongst others , Warham ...
... use fome ftrange gefticulations , and to exhibit di- vers feigned miracles , accompa- nied with fome wizardly unfooth- fayings , the drew much credit and ⚫ concourfe to her , infomuch that no mean perfons , and amongst others , Warham ...
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Сторінка 469 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God : and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Сторінка 87 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Сторінка 87 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Сторінка 83 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Сторінка 22 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Сторінка 42 - The object, I could first distinctly view, Was tall straight trees, which on the waters flew; Wings on their sides, instead of leaves, did grow, Which gathered all the breath the winds could blow : And at their roots grew floating palaces, Whose outblowed bellies cut the yielding seas.
Сторінка 294 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. VERSES...
Сторінка 51 - ... but this even balance of opinion is not maintained in the pagan epitaph which was placed on his tomb : — ' Hospes, Achillinum tumulo qui quaeris in isto, Falleris, ille suo iunctus Aristoteli Elysium colit, et quas rerum hie discere causas Vix potuit, plenis nunc videt ille oculis : . Tu modo, per campos dum nohilis umbra beatos Errat, die longum perpftuumque vale.'2 Meanwhile, a decree of the Lateran Council; published on 19 Dec.
Сторінка 80 - Britannia's public pofts retire, Nor longer, her ungrateful fons to pleafe, For their advantage facrifice your eafe ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys, Through nations fruitful of immortal lays, Where the foft feafon and inviting clime Confpire to trouble your repofe with rhime.
Сторінка 248 - I now write to give the King an account of a patent I have stayed at the seal. It is of licence to give in mortmain eight hundred pound land, though it be of tenure in chief, to Allen that was the player, for an hospital.