The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1815 - Biography |
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... died Aug. 1 , 1464 , aged seventy- five years , deeply lamented by the citizens of Florence . ' MEDICI ( LORENZO , or LAWRENCE DE ) , grandson of the preceding , was born Jan. 1 , 1448. From his earliest years he gave proofs of a ...
... died Aug. 1 , 1464 , aged seventy- five years , deeply lamented by the citizens of Florence . ' MEDICI ( LORENZO , or LAWRENCE DE ) , grandson of the preceding , was born Jan. 1 , 1448. From his earliest years he gave proofs of a ...
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... died in 1711 , aged fifty - two , audi was buried in the Grey Friars church - yard . He was knighted by the duke of Queensbury , lord high commis- sioner , being the last instance of that honour conferred in Scotland while a separate ...
... died in 1711 , aged fifty - two , audi was buried in the Grey Friars church - yard . He was knighted by the duke of Queensbury , lord high commis- sioner , being the last instance of that honour conferred in Scotland while a separate ...
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... died at Edinburgh in 1796. He practised painting in some mea- sure , although all we have heard specified is the repair he gave to the series of Scottish kings in Holyrood - house , which are well known to be imaginary portraits ...
... died at Edinburgh in 1796. He practised painting in some mea- sure , although all we have heard specified is the repair he gave to the series of Scottish kings in Holyrood - house , which are well known to be imaginary portraits ...
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... died Jan. 23 , 1766 , before this most considerable of his works was quite ready for publication . He was married , and his wife is said to have been a woman who in all respects did honour to the elegance of his taste . All his writings ...
... died Jan. 23 , 1766 , before this most considerable of his works was quite ready for publication . He was married , and his wife is said to have been a woman who in all respects did honour to the elegance of his taste . All his writings ...
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... died at near 100 years of age . Meibomius pretended that the Hebrew copy of the Bible was full of errors , and undertook to correct them by means of a metre , which he fancied he had discovered in those ancient writings ; but this drew ...
... died at near 100 years of age . Meibomius pretended that the Hebrew copy of the Bible was full of errors , and undertook to correct them by means of a metre , which he fancied he had discovered in those ancient writings ; but this drew ...
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Page 150 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 8 - The Origin of Printing, in two Essays : 1. The substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the Origin of Printing in England. 2. Mr. Meerman's account of the invention of the art at Harleim, and its progress to Mentz, with occasional remarks, and an Appendix,
Page 365 - Then did I further put him in remembrance of the Statute of Praemunire, whereby a good part of the Pope's pastoral cure here was pared away. "To that answered his Highness: 'Whatsoever impediment be to the contrary, we will set forth that authority to the uttermost. For we received from that See our crown imperial' — which till his Grace with his own mouth told it me, I never heard of before.
Page 177 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 267 - ... elected one of the knights of the shire for the county of Huntingdon...
Page 188 - The course of his day was best known after he was blind. When he first rose, he heard a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and then studied till twelve; then took some exercise for an hour; then dined, then played on the organ, and...
Page 524 - No libels, no threats, nothing that has happened, nothing that can happen, will weigh a feather against allowing the defendant, upon this and every other question, not only the whole advantage he is entitled ^o from substantial law and justice, but every benefit from the most critical nicety of form, which any other defendant could claim under the like objection.
Page 357 - Chelsea to be merry with him, whither on a time unlocked for he came to dinner, and after dinner in a fair garden of his walked with him by the space of an hour holding his arm about his neck.
Page 366 - Mistress, since it were against good manners to refuse your new year's gift, I am content to take your gloves, but as for the lining, I utterly refuse it.
Page 72 - THE LIFE OF MERLIN, SIRNAMED AMBROSIUS. His Prophesies, and Predictions Interpreted; and their truth made good by our English Annalls, being a Chronographicall History of all the Kings, and memorable passages of this Kingdome, from Brute to the Reign of our Royall Soveraigne King Charles; a Subject never published in this kind before, and deserves to be knowne and observed by all men.