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Abbey afterwards AMIAS PAULET appointed Baker Beckington Bishop of Bath born Bridgewater Bristol buried Byam Captain Speke career Castle Cathedral celebrated characters Charles Chief Justice Church commenced County Courcey Court Cromwell Dayrell death died A.D. diocese discovery Divine doubt Duke Dunstan Dunster Castle Dutch English famous favour Fielding's FITZJAMES Fuller Glastonbury Gloucester HARINGTON HENRY FIELDING hieroglyphics honour Hooper House of Commons imprisoned JAMES DYER Jocelin JOHN LOCKE JOHN PYM Jones King King's Lake lawyer learned lived Lord Luckham Malmesbury Mary ment Merton College Monk Montacute native naval NICHOLAS WADHAM Nile Palmer Parliament Phelips political prison Prynne Queen Elizabeth RALPH CUDWORTH reign of Edward reputation retired RICHARD FITZJAMES Robert Blake SAMUEL says sent ships SIR AMIAS Sir John Popham Somersetshire SOMERSETSHIRE WORTHIES soon Speke Taunton THOMAS tion Tom Jones took Tromp violent voyage Wadham College WILLIAM DAMPIER Wolsey wrote
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Page 61 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 52 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them.
Page 71 - SCIENCE, FIRST ESTABLISHED THE UNDULATORY THEORY OF LIGHT, AND FIRST PENETRATED THE OBSCURITY WHICH HAD VEILED FOR AGES THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF EGYPT.
Page 20 - In his youthful days he was as stout and skilful a man at sword and buckler as any in that age, and wild enough in his recreations. But, oh! if Quicksilver could really be fixed, to what a treasure would it amount! Such is wild youth seriously reduced to gravity, as by this young man did appear.
Page 55 - Few books have contributed more than Mr. Locke's Essay to rectify prejudice ; to undermine established errors ; to diffuse a just mode of thinking ; to excite a fearless spirit of inquiry, and yet to contain it within the boundaries which Nature has prescribed to the human understanding.
Page 65 - As a picture of manners, the novel of " Tom Jones " is indeed exquisite : as a work of construction quite a wonder : the by-play of wisdom ; the power of observation ; the multiplied felicitous turns and thoughts ; the varied character of the great Comic Epic : keep the reader in a perpetual admiration and curiosity.* But against Mr.
Page 72 - ... says Sir John Herschel,' the key to all the more abstruse and puzzling properties of light, and which would alone have sufficed to place its author in the highest rank of scientific immortality, even were his other almost innumerable claims to such a distinction disregarded.
Page 40 - SaintJohn, yet he seemed to all men to have the greatest influence upon the house of commons of any man ; and, in truth, I think he was at that time, and for some months after, the most popular man, and the most able to do hurt, that hath lived in any time.
Page 22 - Popham's justice was exemplary on thieves and robbers. The land then swarmed with people which had been soldiers, who had never gotten (or quite forgotten) any other vocation. Hard it was for peace to feed all the idle mouths which a former war did breed: being too proud to beg, too lazy to labour, those infested the highways with their felonies; some presuming on their multitudes, as...
Page 26 - ... parts. These trifles, tending more to superstition than otherwise, as he could never abide, so in no wise could he be persuaded to wear them. For this cause he made supplication to the...