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], 1814 |
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... court into Tuscany , to bring him a just report of his talents ; and withal to bring him a de- sign from each of the Florentine painters , being desirous to have some notion of their skill . When he came to VOL . XVI . B Giotto , he ...
... court into Tuscany , to bring him a just report of his talents ; and withal to bring him a de- sign from each of the Florentine painters , being desirous to have some notion of their skill . When he came to VOL . XVI . B Giotto , he ...
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... court . He left the city at the same time , and removed with his family to Mondovi in Piedmont ; where he taught the belles lettres publicly for three years . He then went to Turin ; but the air there not agreeing with his constitu ...
... court . He left the city at the same time , and removed with his family to Mondovi in Piedmont ; where he taught the belles lettres publicly for three years . He then went to Turin ; but the air there not agreeing with his constitu ...
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... court , it was praised by the whole of this new court , and by the adherents in general of opposition , not beyond its merit , but too evidently from a motive which could not always prevail , and which ceased to animate their zeal in ...
... court , it was praised by the whole of this new court , and by the adherents in general of opposition , not beyond its merit , but too evidently from a motive which could not always prevail , and which ceased to animate their zeal in ...
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... courts and courtiers , and even that is appropriated 66 with so strict historical fidelity to the court of GLOVER , 27.
... courts and courtiers , and even that is appropriated 66 with so strict historical fidelity to the court of GLOVER , 27.
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... court of Xerxes , that it does not seem easy to borrow it for any other purpose . Nothing else , " however , Dr. Warton informs us , was read or talked of at Leicester - house , " the illustrious owner of which extended his patronage to ...
... court of Xerxes , that it does not seem easy to borrow it for any other purpose . Nothing else , " however , Dr. Warton informs us , was read or talked of at Leicester - house , " the illustrious owner of which extended his patronage to ...
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Σελίδα 318 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Σελίδα 149 - A New and Full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament.
Σελίδα 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Σελίδα 317 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster.
Σελίδα 318 - ... as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Σελίδα 60 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Σελίδα 404 - In those very writings which Grotius is gravely blamed for having quoted. The usages and laws of nations, the events of history, the opinions of philosophers, the sentiments of orators and poets, as well as the observation of common life, are, in truth, the materials out of which the science of morality is formed ; and those who neglect them are justly chargeable with a vain attempt to philosophize without regard to fact and experience, the sole foundation of all true philosophy.
Σελίδα 169 - Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats.
Σελίδα 309 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.