The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Томи 9 – 12C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... Returning to England in August , 1643 , when the civil war was raging , and when English blood had been shed in torrents at Edgehill , at Chalgrove , at Newbury , and in many other sternly ... returned 8 CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY .
... Returning to England in August , 1643 , when the civil war was raging , and when English blood had been shed in torrents at Edgehill , at Chalgrove , at Newbury , and in many other sternly ... returned 8 CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY .
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a member of the Long Parliament , having been returned member for Cardiff at the beginning of the year 1646 , before he went to Dublin . In May , 1647 , having re- turned to London , Algernon received the thanks of the House of Commons ...
a member of the Long Parliament , having been returned member for Cardiff at the beginning of the year 1646 , before he went to Dublin . In May , 1647 , having re- turned to London , Algernon received the thanks of the House of Commons ...
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... returned to Gascony , if he had not been detained by a long and tedious suit in Chancery , in which he was involved by his elder brother , now Earl of Leicester , choosing to dispute his father's will . Be- fore this , Sidney appears to ...
... returned to Gascony , if he had not been detained by a long and tedious suit in Chancery , in which he was involved by his elder brother , now Earl of Leicester , choosing to dispute his father's will . Be- fore this , Sidney appears to ...
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... returning popular juries , and in thus thwarting the Court and the Tories . [ See Memoir of William Lord Russell . ] When determined Tories had been despotically thrust by the king into the places of Bethell and Cornish , and when Tory ...
... returning popular juries , and in thus thwarting the Court and the Tories . [ See Memoir of William Lord Russell . ] When determined Tories had been despotically thrust by the king into the places of Bethell and Cornish , and when Tory ...
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... returned to Romsey , where I was born , bringing back with me my brother Anthony , whom I had bred , with about ten pounds more than I had carried out of England . " At Paris , Aubrey and Wood tell us he made the acquaintance of his ...
... returned to Romsey , where I was born , bringing back with me my brother Anthony , whom I had bred , with about ten pounds more than I had carried out of England . " At Paris , Aubrey and Wood tell us he made the acquaintance of his ...
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acquaintance Addison admirable afterwards Algernon Algernon Sidney appears appointed became Bishop Boyle called character Charles Charles II church College common court daughter death Dryden Dublin Duke Dunciad Dutch Earl Eddystone Lighthouse edition England English Essay father favour fortune France French Halley Hogarth honour House ideas Ireland John king labour Lady Leibnitz letter lived Locke London Lord Somers Louis XIV Marlborough ment mind nature never Newton observations occasion Oxford parliament party person Petty poem poet political Pope Pope's Prince Prince of Orange principles printed probably published Queen racter Rake's Progress remarkable residence returned Robert Boyle Royal Society satire says seems sent Sidney Sir William Sir William Temple Smeaton soon Stadtholder Swift Temple things thought tion told took translation verse volume Walpole Whig writing written wrote
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Сторінка 36 - was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated.
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