The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 10J. Nichols, 1813 - Biography |
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... letter which sir Francis Bacon wrote to him after his own fall ; wherein we have the following passage : " As your pleadings were wont to insult our misery , and inveigh literally against the person , so are you still careless in this ...
... letter which sir Francis Bacon wrote to him after his own fall ; wherein we have the following passage : " As your pleadings were wont to insult our misery , and inveigh literally against the person , so are you still careless in this ...
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... letter upon that subject , wherein he has the following passage , relating to the lord chief- justice : " If you take my lord Coke , this will follow : First , your majesty shall put an over - ruling nature into an over- ruling place ...
... letter upon that subject , wherein he has the following passage , relating to the lord chief- justice : " If you take my lord Coke , this will follow : First , your majesty shall put an over - ruling nature into an over- ruling place ...
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... letter , in which he remonstrates to him several errors in his former behaviour and conduct . We have made a cita- tion from this letter already ; we will here give the remain- der of it for though perhaps it was not very generous in ...
... letter , in which he remonstrates to him several errors in his former behaviour and conduct . We have made a cita- tion from this letter already ; we will here give the remain- der of it for though perhaps it was not very generous in ...
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... letter written by the queen mother ; and ordered him to bring it back after that minister had seen it . Colbert carried the letter , and would not return without it , though the cardinal treated him roughly , used several arts to ...
... letter written by the queen mother ; and ordered him to bring it back after that minister had seen it . Colbert carried the letter , and would not return without it , though the cardinal treated him roughly , used several arts to ...
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... Letters to John Jewell , bishop of Salisbury , upon occasion of a Sermon that the said bishop preached before the queen's majesty and her honour- able council , anno 1 560 , " Lond . 1560 , 8vo , printed afterwards among Bishop Jewell's ...
... Letters to John Jewell , bishop of Salisbury , upon occasion of a Sermon that the said bishop preached before the queen's majesty and her honour- able council , anno 1 560 , " Lond . 1560 , 8vo , printed afterwards among Bishop Jewell's ...
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Page 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 161 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Page 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Page 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Page 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
Page 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.