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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... employ him in St. Peter's church at Rome ; and desired him to send some design by him to his holiness . Giotto , who was a pleasant ready man , took a sheet of white paper , and setting his arm close to his hip to keep it steady , he ...
... employ him in St. Peter's church at Rome ; and desired him to send some design by him to his holiness . Giotto , who was a pleasant ready man , took a sheet of white paper , and setting his arm close to his hip to keep it steady , he ...
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... employed to read public lectures at Ferrara upon physic and polite literature . In 1542 , the duke of Ferrara made him his secretary ; which office he held till the death of that prince in 1558 . was continued in it by his successor ...
... employed to read public lectures at Ferrara upon physic and polite literature . In 1542 , the duke of Ferrara made him his secretary ; which office he held till the death of that prince in 1558 . was continued in it by his successor ...
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... employed . Mr. Moore was his first patron , and with him he went a tour into Scotland . The prospects he saw in that country gave that wildness of imagery to the scenery of his draw- ings by which they are so pre - eminently ...
... employed . Mr. Moore was his first patron , and with him he went a tour into Scotland . The prospects he saw in that country gave that wildness of imagery to the scenery of his draw- ings by which they are so pre - eminently ...
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... the bu- siness of his profession with great repute in those times of public confusion . He was thus employed during the me- Rees's Cyclopædia , from Eloy's Dict . Hist . morable siege and surrender of that city to the rebels 20 GLAUBER .
... the bu- siness of his profession with great repute in those times of public confusion . He was thus employed during the me- Rees's Cyclopædia , from Eloy's Dict . Hist . morable siege and surrender of that city to the rebels 20 GLAUBER .
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... employed six years in the study of philosophy and theology , after which he was sent to Toul to instruct the young men of his order in these sciences . In the mean 1 Ath . Ox . vol . II . - Dodd's Church History . - Granger . - Wilson's ...
... employed six years in the study of philosophy and theology , after which he was sent to Toul to instruct the young men of his order in these sciences . In the mean 1 Ath . Ox . vol . II . - Dodd's Church History . - Granger . - Wilson's ...
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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...
Σελίδα 149 - A New and Full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament.
Σελίδα 317 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Σελίδα 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Σελίδα 82 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Σελίδα 119 - So that all things considered there have not, since the primitive times of Christianity, been many among the sons of men to whom that glorious character of the Son of God might be better applied, that he went about doing good...
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 127 - SEPULCHRAL monuments in Great Britain applied to illustrate the history of families, manners, habits, and arts, at the different periods from the Norman Conquest to the seventeenth century.
Σελίδα 248 - Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.
Σελίδα 24 - A short Account of the late Application to Parliament made by the Merchants of London upon the neglect of their Trade : with the Substance of the Evidence thereupon, as summed up by Mr. Glover.