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 14Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... returned to Urbino to finish himself in the law , in which he was ad- mitted doctor at eighteen . Having an elder brother at Rome , who was an eminent advocate , he also went thither , ⚫ and applied himself to the bar ; where he soon ...
... returned to Urbino to finish himself in the law , in which he was ad- mitted doctor at eighteen . Having an elder brother at Rome , who was an eminent advocate , he also went thither , ⚫ and applied himself to the bar ; where he soon ...
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... returned to Rome with cardinal Bo- nelli , who had been nuncio in Spain ; and from his do- mestic became his most intimate friend . He was appointed judge of the appeals to the Capitol ; which post he after- wards quitted for that of ...
... returned to Rome with cardinal Bo- nelli , who had been nuncio in Spain ; and from his do- mestic became his most intimate friend . He was appointed judge of the appeals to the Capitol ; which post he after- wards quitted for that of ...
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... returned to Amsterdam , where he remained for a year , during which he had frequent disputes with his old Hebrew master on the subject of the Messiah . In 1687 he was ordained according to the forms of the Dutch church , and preached ...
... returned to Amsterdam , where he remained for a year , during which he had frequent disputes with his old Hebrew master on the subject of the Messiah . In 1687 he was ordained according to the forms of the Dutch church , and preached ...
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... returned to his native country , and was ap- pointed master of the great school at Meissen , over which he presided twenty - six years , and died in that station , in He was the author of numerous Latin poems , and 1571 . 1 Oratio de ...
... returned to his native country , and was ap- pointed master of the great school at Meissen , over which he presided twenty - six years , and died in that station , in He was the author of numerous Latin poems , and 1571 . 1 Oratio de ...
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... returned an answer to this letter , expressing his concern at the news , but full of gratitude to his guardian for the care he had taken of him and his property . He had , however , to seek for the means of subsistence , and might have ...
... returned an answer to this letter , expressing his concern at the news , but full of gratitude to his guardian for the care he had taken of him and his property . He had , however , to seek for the means of subsistence , and might have ...
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Seite 447 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenlyj affecting not to mind him.
Seite 310 - Nottingham rose, and, after denouncing the proposed peace as derogatory and mischievous, concluded by moving ' that no peace could be safe or honourable to Great Britain or Europe if Spain and the West Indies were allotted to any branch of the House of Bourbon.
Seite 253 - My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved : and my study shall be in thy statutes.
Seite 101 - God to preserve his Majesty with long life and happy years : he stroked me on the cheek, and said, ' Child, if God pleaseth it shall be so, but both you and I must...
Seite 307 - ... discover and to pursue the true spirit of justice, notwithstanding the embarrassments raised by the narrow and technical notions which then prevailed in the courts of law, and the imperfect ideas of redress which had possessed the courts of equity. The reason and necessities of mankind arising from the great change in property by the extension of trade and the abolition of military tenures, cooperated in establishing his plan, and enabled him in the course of nine years to build a system of jurisprudence...
Seite 327 - When this answer was reported to the king, he said, in a great passion, " Yea, is he yet so lusty ? Well, let the pope send him a hat when he will ; Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders then ; for I will leave him never a head to set it on.
Seite 114 - Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament.' His last work appeared in 1783, and was entitled ' The general prevalence of the worship of human spirits in the ancient Heathen nations asserted and proved.
Seite 504 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Seite 113 - A Dissertation on Miracles, designed to shew that they are arguments of a divine interposition, and absolute proofs of the mission, and doctrine of a Prophet,
Seite 122 - With much seeming negligence, and perhaps, in later years, some real relaxation, he understands more, and remembers more, about common and uncommon subjects of literature, than many of those who would be thought to read all the day, and meditate half the night. In quickness of apprehension, and acuteness of discrimination, I have not often seen his equal.