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... march his army across the Great Belt when frozen , and thus penetrate into the very heart of the Danish kingdom and besiege the capital ( 1658 ) . His great services were rewarded with the rank of nobility , and he was successively ...
... march his army across the Great Belt when frozen , and thus penetrate into the very heart of the Danish kingdom and besiege the capital ( 1658 ) . His great services were rewarded with the rank of nobility , and he was successively ...
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... March 1815 he was secretary at war . He died in 1817 . DALLAS , ( Sir Robert , ) an eminent lawyer , the eldest son of Robert Dallas , Esq . , of Kensington . He was educated , along with his brother George , at Geneva , under the care ...
... March 1815 he was secretary at war . He died in 1817 . DALLAS , ( Sir Robert , ) an eminent lawyer , the eldest son of Robert Dallas , Esq . , of Kensington . He was educated , along with his brother George , at Geneva , under the care ...
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... March , 1757 , on the Place de Grève . Before being put to death , he was tortured for one hour and a half on the place of execution with red - hot pincers , molten lead , and other cruel contrivances . All the windows and roofs of the ...
... March , 1757 , on the Place de Grève . Before being put to death , he was tortured for one hour and a half on the place of execution with red - hot pincers , molten lead , and other cruel contrivances . All the windows and roofs of the ...
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... March 31 , 1686 , they took their departure from Cape Corrientes ; they reached Guam on the fifty - second day , when the men had begun to talk of killing and eating captain Swan and the officers as soon as their provisions should have ...
... March 31 , 1686 , they took their departure from Cape Corrientes ; they reached Guam on the fifty - second day , when the men had begun to talk of killing and eating captain Swan and the officers as soon as their provisions should have ...
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... March following , con- demned to be burnt alive if he should ever fall into the power of the Florentine community . Dante now left the Guelphs , joined the Ghibellines , and went to Arezzo , in the hope of obtaining the protection of ...
... March following , con- demned to be burnt alive if he should ever fall into the power of the Florentine community . Dante now left the Guelphs , joined the Ghibellines , and went to Arezzo , in the hope of obtaining the protection of ...
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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 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 473 - Christian, this vehement suspicion rightfully entertained towards me, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors and heresies...
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 210 - Arkwright (she died 1844) ; was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of BA...
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 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.