A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 - Biography |
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... also , that if ficknefs fhould confine him to his bed , it might raife the pains . of the ftone to a degree which might be above his strength to fupport ; fo that he feared left his last minutes fhould be too hard for him . This was the ...
... also , that if ficknefs fhould confine him to his bed , it might raife the pains . of the ftone to a degree which might be above his strength to fupport ; fo that he feared left his last minutes fhould be too hard for him . This was the ...
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... also recommended him to his brother , afterwards earl Mansfield ; but he made no use of these recommendations , and contented himself with fubfifting by contributions . About 1740 , he was fo reduced , that he had not clothes to appear ...
... also recommended him to his brother , afterwards earl Mansfield ; but he made no use of these recommendations , and contented himself with fubfifting by contributions . About 1740 , he was fo reduced , that he had not clothes to appear ...
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... also of the royal Pruffian academy of sciences and belles lettres , but the time when does not appear amongst his papers . By too clofe application to his obfervations and ftudies , as is probable , our royal aftronomer was afflicted ...
... also of the royal Pruffian academy of sciences and belles lettres , but the time when does not appear amongst his papers . By too clofe application to his obfervations and ftudies , as is probable , our royal aftronomer was afflicted ...
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... also so well ascertained , that we cannot fee how any person can entertain the least doubt of it [ s ] . BRADWARDIN ( THOMAS ) , born at Hatfield in Suffex , in the latter end of the xiiith century , was educated in Oxford , where he ...
... also so well ascertained , that we cannot fee how any person can entertain the least doubt of it [ s ] . BRADWARDIN ( THOMAS ) , born at Hatfield in Suffex , in the latter end of the xiiith century , was educated in Oxford , where he ...
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... also were uneafy , because their patients deferted them to apply to him for the fovereign medicines which he distributed gratis . Valkendorf , treasurer of the household , was incenfed against him on account of a difpute occafioned by a ...
... also were uneafy , because their patients deferted them to apply to him for the fovereign medicines which he distributed gratis . Valkendorf , treasurer of the household , was incenfed against him on account of a difpute occafioned by a ...
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Page 475 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Page 474 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Page 360 - He was a great cherisher of wit and fancy and good parts in any man; and, if he found them clouded with poverty or want, a most liberal and bountiful patron towards them, even above his fortune...
Page 473 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Page 357 - ... no single preservation could be worth so general a wound and corruption of human society as the cherishing such persons would carry with it.
Page 356 - ... as he was by degrees looked upon as an advocate for the court; to which he contributed so little, that he declined those addresses, and even those invitations which he was obliged almost by civility to entertain.
Page 227 - In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously. related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.
Page 475 - Chaucer's side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian, yet it appears that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled ; so that what there was of invention in either of them, may be judged equal.
Page 361 - ... at Edgehill, when the enemy was routed, he was like to have incurred great peril, by interposing to save those who had thrown away their arms, and against whom, it may be, others were more fierce for their having thrown them away : so that a man might think, he came into the field chiefly out of curiosity to see the face of danger, and charity to prevent the shedding of blood.
Page 359 - Peace; and would passionately profess, 'that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart'.