The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 99Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1829 - English essays |
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... first wife , a daughter of the celebrated Sir Anthony Denny , Groom of the Stole to Henry the Eighth , he had an ... eldest of the three daughters of Francis , second Earl of Bedford , K.G. and her two sisters were the Countesses of Bath ...
... first wife , a daughter of the celebrated Sir Anthony Denny , Groom of the Stole to Henry the Eighth , he had an ... eldest of the three daughters of Francis , second Earl of Bedford , K.G. and her two sisters were the Countesses of Bath ...
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... daughter and heiress of Lewis Aprice , of Hanslope in Buck- inghanishire ... first visit to his cousin the Earl of Bristol , the latter " sent his son ... first encounter much greediness of enjoying each other ) that when they came out of ...
... daughter and heiress of Lewis Aprice , of Hanslope in Buck- inghanishire ... first visit to his cousin the Earl of Bristol , the latter " sent his son ... first encounter much greediness of enjoying each other ) that when they came out of ...
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... eldest daughter of Sir John Strange- ( ancestor to the Earls of Ilchester ) , by ways , of Melbury Sampford , knight of Woolveton . This young lady had Grace , daughter of Sir John Trenchard been first married in 1622 , to Richard ...
... eldest daughter of Sir John Strange- ( ancestor to the Earls of Ilchester ) , by ways , of Melbury Sampford , knight of Woolveton . This young lady had Grace , daughter of Sir John Trenchard been first married in 1622 , to Richard ...
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... first book of Appian's Civil Wars of Rome ( cap . 40 et seq . ) together with an attempt to give a more accurate ge ... daughter of the mighty " Dictator perpetuus , " and an unnatural bellum interneciorum was waged between them ; and ...
... first book of Appian's Civil Wars of Rome ( cap . 40 et seq . ) together with an attempt to give a more accurate ge ... daughter of the mighty " Dictator perpetuus , " and an unnatural bellum interneciorum was waged between them ; and ...
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... first repulsive , gradually smoothed down as he grew animated . Those who ... first President of the Royal Academy will always be read with intense inte- rest ... daughters of men . A deep human sympathy unites us with his pencil , and ...
... first repulsive , gradually smoothed down as he grew animated . Those who ... first President of the Royal Academy will always be read with intense inte- rest ... daughters of men . A deep human sympathy unites us with his pencil , and ...
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Page 401 - And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying...
Page 367 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 110 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 16 - Six Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, at their Anniversary Meetings, on the Award of the Royal and Copley Medals ; preceded by an Address to the Society, delivered in 1800, on the Progress and Prospects of Science.
Page 100 - PEDIGREES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF HERTFORDSHIRE. By William Berry, late, and for fifteen years, Registering Clerk in the College of Arms, author of the " Encyclopaedia Heraldica,
Page 300 - Dolomieu, — That, if there is any circumstance thoroughly established in geology, it is, that the crust of our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much farther back than five or six thousand years ago ; that this revolution had buried all the countries which were before inhabited by men and by the other animals that are now best known...
Page 111 - Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear ! How cleanly do we feed and lie ! Lord ! what good hours do we keep ! How quietly we sleep ! What peace, what unanimity ! How innocent from the lewd fashion, Is all our business, all our recreation...
Page 403 - tis a base Abandonment of reason to resign Our right of thought — our last and only place Of refuge...
Page 54 - The portraits of Reynolds are equally numerous and excellent, and all who have written of their merits have swelled their eulogiums by comparing them with the simplicity of Titian, the vigour of Rembrandt, and the elegance and delicacy of Vandyke. Certainly, in character and expression, and in manly ease, he has never been surpassed. He is always equal — always natural — graceful — unaffected. His boldness of posture and his singular freedom of colouring are so supported by all the grace of...
Page 57 - Thomson, Richard. An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John: to which are added, the Great Charter in Latin and English, the charters of liberties and confirmations, granted by Henry III and Edward I, the original Charter of the forests, and various authentic instruments connected with them: Explanatory...