The 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 to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1813 |
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... appears to have been in- flexible in the points which divided so large a body of clergymen from the church , and is said to have refused considerable preferment to induce him to remain in it . He is praised by his biographer for piety ...
... appears to have been in- flexible in the points which divided so large a body of clergymen from the church , and is said to have refused considerable preferment to induce him to remain in it . He is praised by his biographer for piety ...
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... appears to have been employed by them ; and , as he was a very modest , decent , and unpresuming man , he was a sharer in their conversation , when they met after their morning's walk , at a bookseller's shop in Ave Maria lane ...
... appears to have been employed by them ; and , as he was a very modest , decent , and unpresuming man , he was a sharer in their conversation , when they met after their morning's walk , at a bookseller's shop in Ave Maria lane ...
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... appears to have carefully divided his time between his public duties and private studies , and died much esteemed and regretted , Jan. 16 , 1747.2 BROCKLESBY ( RICHARD ) , an eminent English physi- cian , the son of Richard Brocklesby ...
... appears to have carefully divided his time between his public duties and private studies , and died much esteemed and regretted , Jan. 16 , 1747.2 BROCKLESBY ( RICHARD ) , an eminent English physi- cian , the son of Richard Brocklesby ...
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... appears to have made a just estimate , and from whose power he expected advantages to the society , which he was himself incapable of conferring . Nor was he disappointed in the issue of this well - timed policy . The king took the ...
... appears to have made a just estimate , and from whose power he expected advantages to the society , which he was himself incapable of conferring . Nor was he disappointed in the issue of this well - timed policy . The king took the ...
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... appears by his di- gressive relation of the contract between Joan , king Ed- ward's sister , and David , afterwards king of Scots . historian has borrowed pretty freely from Hoveden . His chronicle is printed in the " Decem Script ...
... appears by his di- gressive relation of the contract between Joan , king Ed- ward's sister , and David , afterwards king of Scots . historian has borrowed pretty freely from Hoveden . His chronicle is printed in the " Decem Script ...
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Стр. 334 - I venture to say, it did so happen that persons had a single office divided between them who had never spoken to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.
Стр. 123 - Peter, and your own secureness, suppress heresy and his holiness'' enemies; for when the Roman faith there perisheth, the see of Rome falleth also. Therefore the council of Cardinals have thought fit to encourage your country of Ireland as a sacred island ; being certified, whilst the mother Church hath a son...
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