A Universal Biographical Dictionary: Containing the Lives of the Most Celebrated Characters of Every Age and Nation ...Grigg & Elliot, 1842 - 444 頁 |
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... court : the first of three extraordinary ABASSON , an impostor , who , under the ambassadors sent to England in 1620 ; and the character of the grandson of Abas the great , ob- second in 1641 , who were to treat about the mar - tained ...
... court : the first of three extraordinary ABASSON , an impostor , who , under the ambassadors sent to England in 1620 ; and the character of the grandson of Abas the great , ob- second in 1641 , who were to treat about the mar - tained ...
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... court of Henry VIII . , was executed July 30 , 1540 . ABNER , son of Ner , was Saul's uncle , and his faithful general , and was perfidiously slain by Joab , 1048 , B. C. ABOUBEKER , vid . Abubeker . ABUCARA , Theodore , the ...
... court of Henry VIII . , was executed July 30 , 1540 . ABNER , son of Ner , was Saul's uncle , and his faithful general , and was perfidiously slain by Joab , 1048 , B. C. ABOUBEKER , vid . Abubeker . ABUCARA , Theodore , the ...
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... court , he enjoyed for 30 of them so ab- solute a power over the king , that nothing could be done without his express orders ; nay , it is related by Mariana , that the king could not change an officer or servant , or ever . his ...
... court , he enjoyed for 30 of them so ab- solute a power over the king , that nothing could be done without his express orders ; nay , it is related by Mariana , that the king could not change an officer or servant , or ever . his ...
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... court that ever was seen . The kings and princes of Asia came to his court , and acknowledged no other sovereign in the East but him . Queens and princesses , knowing him , doubtless , to be a man of amour and gallantry , strove who ...
... court that ever was seen . The kings and princes of Asia came to his court , and acknowledged no other sovereign in the East but him . Queens and princesses , knowing him , doubtless , to be a man of amour and gallantry , strove who ...
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... court and in offices of state , he passed lands , were entirely cut off from the least hope the latter part of his days in a continual appli - of salvation ; that the clergy ought to subsist cation to works of piety and devotion . His ...
... court and in offices of state , he passed lands , were entirely cut off from the least hope the latter part of his days in a continual appli - of salvation ; that the clergy ought to subsist cation to works of piety and devotion . His ...
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第 198 頁 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
第 185 頁 - Among the rest was a large collection of original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. Richard III. and Henry VII. by such of the Paston family...
第 235 頁 - Revisal of Shakspeare's Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
第 54 頁 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
第 28 頁 - I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality in parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, " God forbid, sir, but you should ; you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the king turned, and said to the bishop of Winchester, " well, my lord, what say you?" " Sir," replied the bishop, " I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases.
第 249 頁 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
第 185 頁 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
第 185 頁 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's...
第 156 頁 - a singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against popery, and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice for it...
第 10 頁 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness : it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.