The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 Seiten |
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... cause , or consequence , of the general destiny - such an account , though it admitted nothing that did not originate from , or tend towards , a single person , ought not to be called a biography , but a history . Thus Robertson's ...
... cause , or consequence , of the general destiny - such an account , though it admitted nothing that did not originate from , or tend towards , a single person , ought not to be called a biography , but a history . Thus Robertson's ...
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... cause it bestows the dignity of history on prurient or malignant scandal , but because it breeds a false belief that the welfare and distress of com- munities are doled out at the discretion of a few fine dressed individuals , who ...
... cause it bestows the dignity of history on prurient or malignant scandal , but because it breeds a false belief that the welfare and distress of com- munities are doled out at the discretion of a few fine dressed individuals , who ...
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... cause of the system . There is one species of history which may with great propriety be called biographical , to which we do not remember to have heard the term applied ; —we mean that wherein an order , institution , or people , are ...
... cause of the system . There is one species of history which may with great propriety be called biographical , to which we do not remember to have heard the term applied ; —we mean that wherein an order , institution , or people , are ...
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... aspect , but never forgetting , while he exposes the error , to explain its cause . The work to which these remarks are prefixed is purely biographical . It professes no more than to introduce the reader to INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . vii.
... aspect , but never forgetting , while he exposes the error , to explain its cause . The work to which these remarks are prefixed is purely biographical . It professes no more than to introduce the reader to INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . vii.
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... cause , he doubtless instilled into young Andrew's mind the early love of that liberty , to the support of which he devoted his life and talents . Of Andrew's school days little is recorded : at fifteen , an age which would now be ...
... cause , he doubtless instilled into young Andrew's mind the early love of that liberty , to the support of which he devoted his life and talents . Of Andrew's school days little is recorded : at fifteen , an age which would now be ...
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Seite 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Seite 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
Seite 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Seite 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Seite 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Seite 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Seite 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Seite 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.