The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Volume 4, Issue 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - Biography |
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Page 350 - I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer, who teacheth me, so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing, whiles I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because, whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
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Page 350 - Bishop of London, published an answer to Knox, under the title of An Harbour for Faithful and true Subjects, against the late Blown Blast, concerning the government of Women* And certainly he was a thought more acute, a thought less precipitate and simple, than his adversary.
Page 200 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
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Page 102 - ... and of Barbier may be accounted for by supposing that neither of them had seen the " Nouvelles Recherches" of 1788. (Dictionnaire Universel Historique ; Biographie Universelle ; Voltaire, Correspondance ; Barbier, Dictionnaire des Anonymes, &c. vol. ii. 133, vol. iii. 125, 126; Biographie Lyonnaise, 16.) GB AUDRADUS, who always assumed the appellation of Modicus, was chorepiscopus or rural bishop of Sens, under the Archbishop of Sens, Wenilon, and not a bishop, as stated erroneously by Oudin....