A New General Biographical Dictionary, Band 7B. Fellowes, 1853 |
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... reign of Charles IX . In 1749 he was wrote also Didascalocophus , or the Deaf entrusted with the important charge of and Dumb Man's Tutor . From his works , instructing the hereditary prince ; and in it may be concluded that he was a ...
... reign of Charles IX . In 1749 he was wrote also Didascalocophus , or the Deaf entrusted with the important charge of and Dumb Man's Tutor . From his works , instructing the hereditary prince ; and in it may be concluded that he was a ...
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... reign of James I. and Charles I. 2 vols , 1762 and 1766 ; Biographia Scotica ; Remains of Christian Antiquity , 3 vols , and other tracts on antiquities , history , divinity , & c . He died in 1792 . DALRYMPLE , ( Alexander , ) an emi ...
... reign of James I. and Charles I. 2 vols , 1762 and 1766 ; Biographia Scotica ; Remains of Christian Antiquity , 3 vols , and other tracts on antiquities , history , divinity , & c . He died in 1792 . DALRYMPLE , ( Alexander , ) an emi ...
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... reign of Louis XIV . That monarch appointed Daniel historiographer of the kingdom , with a pension of 2000 francs . He died at Paris in 1728 . DANIELL , ( Thomas , ) a celebrated painter of Oriental scenery , born in 1750 . His early ...
... reign of Louis XIV . That monarch appointed Daniel historiographer of the kingdom , with a pension of 2000 francs . He died at Paris in 1728 . DANIELL , ( Thomas , ) a celebrated painter of Oriental scenery , born in 1750 . His early ...
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... reign was his expedition against Attica , under the com- mand of Datis and Artaphernes , who were defeated by Miltiades in the plain of Marathon , B.C. 490. Darius began to make preparations for another expedition against the Greeks ...
... reign was his expedition against Attica , under the com- mand of Datis and Artaphernes , who were defeated by Miltiades in the plain of Marathon , B.C. 490. Darius began to make preparations for another expedition against the Greeks ...
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... reign of Henry II . he had been preceptor to the king's pages ; and Charles IX . honoured him with the title of his poet , took great delight in con- versing with him , and endeavoured to support him in his old age . Daurat had an ...
... reign of Henry II . he had been preceptor to the king's pages ; and Charles IX . honoured him with the title of his poet , took great delight in con- versing with him , and endeavoured to support him in his old age . Daurat had an ...
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Seite 229 - After some common discourses had passed between us he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. '' When I came home and had set myself to read it I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Seite 223 - She answered with a faint voice, that as she had held a regal sceptre, she desired no other than a royal successor. Cecil requesting her to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined, that she would have a king to succeed her; and who should that be but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots?
Seite 149 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into 30 its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay
Seite 229 - After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it ; which I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Seite 99 - An Epistolary Discourse, proving, from the Scriptures and the first Fathers, that the Soul is a Principle naturally mortal, but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God, to Punishment, or to Reward, by its Union with the Divine Baptismal Spirit. Wherein is proved, that none have the Power of giving this Divine Immortalizing Spirit, since the Apostles, but only the Bishops.
Seite 229 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Seite 379 - 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 175 - The Evidence of Reason, in proof of the Immortality of the Soul, independent on the more abstruse Inquiry into the Nature of Matter and Spirit. Collected from the MSS.
Seite 432 - Every where natural, he carried into public something of that simple and negligent exterior, which belonged to him in private. When he began to speak, a common observer might have thought him awkward ; and even a consummate judge could only have been struck with the exquisite justness of his ideas, and the transparent simplicity of his language.
Seite 223 - Ten days and nights she lay upon the carpet, leaning on cushions, which her maids brought her, and her physicians could not persuade her to allow herself to be put to bed, much less to make trial of any remedies which they prescribed to her.