A Biographical History of England: From Egbert the Great to the Revolution: Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes, and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads: Intended as an Essay Towards Reducing Our Biography to System, and a Help to the Knowledge of Portraits: Interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons ... With a Preface ...W. Baynes and Son, 1824 - Great Britain |
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... seems to have been the ruling passion in James I. * To this he sacrificed almost every principle of sound policy . He was eminently learned , especially in divinity ; and was better qualified to fill a professor's chair , than a throne ...
... seems to have been the ruling passion in James I. * To this he sacrificed almost every principle of sound policy . He was eminently learned , especially in divinity ; and was better qualified to fill a professor's chair , than a throne ...
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... seems to have had neither leisure nor inclination for the pursuits of vice or pleasure . The dignity of his behaviour , and his manly virtues , were respected by every rank and order of men . Though he was snatched away in the early ...
... seems to have had neither leisure nor inclination for the pursuits of vice or pleasure . The dignity of his behaviour , and his manly virtues , were respected by every rank and order of men . Though he was snatched away in the early ...
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... seems to be rather the effect of youth , than the production of genius . Ob . 6 Jan. 1652-3 . JOHN HOLLIS , earl of Clare , in a round hat . R. Clamp . In Harding's " Biographical Mirrour ; " 1792 . 66 JOHN HOLLES , earl of Clare ...
... seems to be rather the effect of youth , than the production of genius . Ob . 6 Jan. 1652-3 . JOHN HOLLIS , earl of Clare , in a round hat . R. Clamp . In Harding's " Biographical Mirrour ; " 1792 . 66 JOHN HOLLES , earl of Clare ...
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... seems to have borrowed several hints from this novel , in his voyage to Laputa . * See the names of the translators , and the parts assigned them , in the " Biogra- phia , " Artic . Boys . + The first impressions , by mistake of the ...
... seems to have borrowed several hints from this novel , in his voyage to Laputa . * See the names of the translators , and the parts assigned them , in the " Biogra- phia , " Artic . Boys . + The first impressions , by mistake of the ...
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... seems to have owed his first preferment , and to Nov. 1621. that his succeeding dignities , to his magnificent and well - conducted entertainment of the lord - chancellor Egerton , and the Spanish am- Made lord -- bassadors , during his ...
... seems to have owed his first preferment , and to Nov. 1621. that his succeeding dignities , to his magnificent and well - conducted entertainment of the lord - chancellor Egerton , and the Spanish am- Made lord -- bassadors , during his ...
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Page 183 - Whose adorning let it not be that outWard adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 121 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 115 - Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, and man — he dies!
Page 184 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 159 - Monday came, all was well. Tuesday came, he not sick. Wednesday came, and still he was well ; with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in the teeth. Thursday came, and dinner was ended, he very well : he went down to the water-side and took a pair of oars to go to some buildings he was in hand with in Puddle Dock. Being in the middle of the Thames, he presently fell down, only saying, ' An impost, an impost,
Page 27 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
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Page 122 - This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Page 167 - Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little emotion as the clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-chaise.
Page 321 - It is hard to say whether his person, his understanding, or his courage, was the most extraordinary ; as the fair, the learned, and the brave, held him in equal admiration. But the same man was wise, and capricious ; redressed wrongs, and quarrelled for punctilios; hated bigotry in religion, and was himself a bigot to philosophy.