The General Biographical Dictionary, Τόμος 27J. Nichols, 1816 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
The General Biographical Dictionary, Τόμος 22 Alexander Chalmers Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2015 |
The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 22 (Classic Reprint) Alexander Chalmers Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2017 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
acquainted admired afterwards ancient Antwerp appears appointed archbishop became bishop born celebrated character Charles Charles II church court daughter death Dict died discourse divinity duke earl edition educated eminent England English entitled esteemed father favour folio France French friends gave genius Greek Henry Hist honour ibid Italy James Jesuits John Julius Cæsar king language Latin learned letters literary lived London lord majesty married Montmaur Niceron Onomast opinion Oxford Paris parliament person philosophy physician poems poet poetry pope prebend prince prince of Condé prince of Orange principal printed professor published queen racter religion reprinted reputation retired Rome says Scaliger Scioppius Scotland Selden sent sermons Shakspeare Sharp shew soon talents taste Thomas thought tion took the degree translation treatise university of Oxford Venice visited vols volume William writings wrote
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 449 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters...
Σελίδα 444 - What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.
Σελίδα 287 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Σελίδα 492 - Shower's Cases in Parliament Resolved and Adjudged upon Petitions and Writs of Error. Fourth Edition. Containing additional cases not hitherto reported. Revised and Edited by RICHARD LOVELAND LOVELAND, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law; Editor of " Kelyng's Crown Cases," and "Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown in the Seashore.
Σελίδα 278 - A collection of Cases and other Discourses lately written to recover Dissenters to the Communion of the Church of England,
Σελίδα 354 - Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape.
Σελίδα 286 - Sathan are most certainly practised, and that the instruments thereof merits most severely to be punished : against the damnable opinions of two principally in our age, whereof the one called Scot, an Englishman, is not ashamed in public print to deny that there can be such a thing as witchcraft ; and so maintains the old error of the Sadducees in denying of spirits.
Σελίδα 333 - TABLE TALK : being the Discourses of John Selden Esq. ; or his Sence of various Matters of Weight and High Consequence relating especially to Religion and State.
Σελίδα 413 - Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament.
Σελίδα 38 - Sage left the metropolis of taste, literature, and gaiety, with considerable regret. He did not enjoy his retirement long, being cut off by a severe illness, Nov. 17, 1747, in his eightieth year. He was interred at Boulogne, with the following epitaph : Sous ce tombeau git Le Sage, abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune : S'il ne fut pas ami de la Fortune, II fut toojours ami de la Vertu.