General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, 第 10 卷G. G. and J. Robinson, 1815 |
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... success so much enhanced the reputa- tion of Wallace , that his followers declared him regent of the kingdom under the captive Baliol . Wallace now retaliated the English invasion by leading his army into the northern counties of ...
... success so much enhanced the reputa- tion of Wallace , that his followers declared him regent of the kingdom under the captive Baliol . Wallace now retaliated the English invasion by leading his army into the northern counties of ...
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... success is imputed his lasting dread of any interference in the affairs of the church . He published a pamphlet on this trial , in which with strong reasoning he affixed the stigma of Jacobitism on the abettors of that turbulent priest ...
... success is imputed his lasting dread of any interference in the affairs of the church . He published a pamphlet on this trial , in which with strong reasoning he affixed the stigma of Jacobitism on the abettors of that turbulent priest ...
第 19 頁
... success of these nego- tiations placed Walpole high in the general esteem of the nation and the favour of the King ; but the death of His Majesty in that year exposed him to the changes which so fre- quently accompany a new reign . It ...
... success of these nego- tiations placed Walpole high in the general esteem of the nation and the favour of the King ; but the death of His Majesty in that year exposed him to the changes which so fre- quently accompany a new reign . It ...
第 27 頁
... success , had defeated Tilly ( see his article ) at the battle of Leipsic . In this emergency the imperial coun- cil ... successful : he took Prague and Egra , and recovered the whole of Bohemia for the Emperor . Gusta- vus having with ...
... success , had defeated Tilly ( see his article ) at the battle of Leipsic . In this emergency the imperial coun- cil ... successful : he took Prague and Egra , and recovered the whole of Bohemia for the Emperor . Gusta- vus having with ...
第 32 頁
... success , and marked him for a very different career in life ; this was , an insatiable love of reading . He was led to indulge it by familiarity with his relation , the master of the school at Newark , with whom he used to sit up late ...
... success , and marked him for a very different career in life ; this was , an insatiable love of reading . He was led to indulge it by familiarity with his relation , the master of the school at Newark , with whom he used to sit up late ...
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第 64 頁 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
第 33 頁 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, " oderint dum metuant ; " he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
第 64 頁 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
第 77 頁 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
第 31 頁 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
第 148 頁 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
第 148 頁 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
第 98 頁 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
第 265 頁 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.
第 65 頁 - Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough...