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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ... - Page 360
1798
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1707 - 488 pages
...Reputation in point of Integrity y and luth Men had a Title to his Bofome. HE was a great ChcriOicr of Wit, and Fancy, and good Parts, in any Man ; and,...bountiful Patron towards them, even above his Fortune ; of which, in thole adminiftrations, he was fuch a Difpenler, as, if he had been truftcd with it to...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year ...

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1707 - 496 pages
...Reputation in point of Integrity ; and fuch Men had a Title to his Bofome. HE was a great Cherilher of Wit, and Fancy, and good Parts, in any Man ; and,...bountiful Patron towards them, even above his Fortune ; of which, in thofe adminiftrations, he was fuch a Difpenfer, as, if he had been trufted with it to...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1717 - 500 pages
...Reputation in point of Integrity ; and fuch Men had a Title to his Bofome. HE was a great CheriQier of Wit, and Fancy, and good Parts, in any Man; and,...bountiful Patron towards them, even above his Fortune ; of which, in thofe adminiftrations, he was fuch a Difpenfer, as, if he had been trufted with it to...
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The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year ...

Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1731 - 508 pages
...who believ'd him proud and imperious ; from which no mortal Man was ever more free. IT is true, that as he was of a moft incomparable gentlenefs, application,...naturally ( which could not but be more evident in this Place which objedcd him to another converfation, and intermixture, than his own eledion would...
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time ..., Volume 1

Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - Poets, English - 1753 - 366 pages
...fingle " lofs, it muft be moft infamous and execrable " to all pofterity. He was a great cherifher of "• wit .and fancy, and good parts in any man ; ." and if he found then} clouded with poverty •' and want* a moft liberal and bountiful patron " towards them, even...
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A new and general biographical dictionary, Volume 3

New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...eminent and fublime parts, and of untouched reputation in point of integrity. He was a great cherilher of wit and fancy, and good parts in any man ; and,...moft incomparable gentlenefs, application, and even fubmiflion, to good and worthy, and entire men, fo he was naturally (which could not but be more evident...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 3

Biography - 1761 - 614 pages
...eminent and fublime parts, and of untouched reputation in point of integrity. He was a great cheriflier of wit and fancy, and good parts in any man ; and,...moft liberal and bountiful patron towards them, even atove his fortune. As he was of a moft incomparable gentlenefs, application, and even fubmiflion, to...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the ...

Biography - 1795 - 408 pages
...eminent and fublime parts, and of untouched reputation in pomt of integrity. He was a great cherifher of wit and fancy, and good parts in any man ; and,...towards them, even above his fortune. As he was of a mwft incomparable gentlenefs, application, and even fubmifllon, to good and worthy, and upright men,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...reputation in point of integrity ; and such men had a title to his bosom. 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 ; of which, in those administrations,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...reputation in point of integrity ; and such men had a title to his bosom. 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 ; of which, in those administrations,...
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