A Universal Biographical Dictionary: Containing the Lives of the Most Celebrated Characters of Every Age and Nation ...Grigg & Elliot, 1842 - 444 σελίδες |
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... success excited ABDIAS , a native of Babylon , who pretend- that envy by which he had through life been ed to be one of the 72 disciples of our Saviour , persecuted ; and having been several times in wrote a legendary treatise , called ...
... success excited ABDIAS , a native of Babylon , who pretend- that envy by which he had through life been ed to be one of the 72 disciples of our Saviour , persecuted ; and having been several times in wrote a legendary treatise , called ...
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... successful rival . 1460 , and died 1486 . ADORNE , Prosper , a Genoese , made Doge , party of the Fregoses , in the age of Charles V .. ADORNE , Jerome , a Genoese , opposed the after the death of her husband , devoted herself ADORNI ...
... successful rival . 1460 , and died 1486 . ADORNE , Prosper , a Genoese , made Doge , party of the Fregoses , in the age of Charles V .. ADORNE , Jerome , a Genoese , opposed the after the death of her husband , devoted herself ADORNI ...
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... success . Af- toms of that vast and immoderate ambition terwards entering Egypt , he went to the oracle which was afterwards to make him the scourge of Jupiter Ammon ; and upon his return , built of mankind and the pest of the world ...
... success . Af- toms of that vast and immoderate ambition terwards entering Egypt , he went to the oracle which was afterwards to make him the scourge of Jupiter Ammon ; and upon his return , built of mankind and the pest of the world ...
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... successful warrior , notorious for his cruelty , died 1389 . AMURATH II . , successor to Mahomet as Ottoman emperor ; he was the first Turk who used cannon in battle ; he resigned his crown to his son , but afterwards resumed it , and ...
... successful warrior , notorious for his cruelty , died 1389 . AMURATH II . , successor to Mahomet as Ottoman emperor ; he was the first Turk who used cannon in battle ; he resigned his crown to his son , but afterwards resumed it , and ...
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... successful , but was finally conquered by the Sci- pios , and died 187 B. C. ANTIOCHUS IV . , son of the Great , succeeded after his brother Philopater , and died 165 B. C. ANTIOCHUS V. was slain by Demetrius , in the second year of his ...
... successful , but was finally conquered by the Sci- pios , and died 187 B. C. ANTIOCHUS IV . , son of the Great , succeeded after his brother Philopater , and died 165 B. C. ANTIOCHUS V. was slain by Demetrius , in the second year of his ...
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Σελίδα 198 - 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.
Σελίδα 185 - 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...
Σελίδα 235 - Revisal of Shakspeare's Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
Σελίδα 54 - 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...
Σελίδα 28 - 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.
Σελίδα 249 - 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.
Σελίδα 185 - 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.
Σελίδα 185 - 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...
Σελίδα 156 - 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...
Σελίδα 10 - 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.