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], 1814 |
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... king . In Sept. 1793 , he obtained the adoption of a project for the regulation of weights and measures , was chosen se- cretary in October , and in December following president of the Jacobins , who denounced him for his silence in the ...
... king . In Sept. 1793 , he obtained the adoption of a project for the regulation of weights and measures , was chosen se- cretary in October , and in December following president of the Jacobins , who denounced him for his silence in the ...
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... King's college in Cambridge , 1512 , where he was elected provost in 1528 , and continued in that office till his death . Being recommended to cardinal Wolsey as a man of an acute spirit and political turn , he was taken into his ser ...
... King's college in Cambridge , 1512 , where he was elected provost in 1528 , and continued in that office till his death . Being recommended to cardinal Wolsey as a man of an acute spirit and political turn , he was taken into his ser ...
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... king's marriage and divorce , in the collec- tion of records at the end of Burnet's first volume of the " History of the Reformation . " 1 FOX ( FRANCIS ) , an English clergyman , of whose early history we have no account , was educated ...
... king's marriage and divorce , in the collec- tion of records at the end of Burnet's first volume of the " History of the Reformation . " 1 FOX ( FRANCIS ) , an English clergyman , of whose early history we have no account , was educated ...
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... king , Fox solicited an audience , and remonstrated with him very freely upon the measure , as what must bring shame and ruin on himself and his posterity . He also addressed a paper to the heads and governors of the nation , on ...
... king , Fox solicited an audience , and remonstrated with him very freely upon the measure , as what must bring shame and ruin on himself and his posterity . He also addressed a paper to the heads and governors of the nation , on ...
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... king Henry's death ; where having neither employment nor preferment , he was again driven to great necessities and distress , but was re- lieved , according to his son's account , in a very remark- able manner . He was sitting one day ...
... king Henry's death ; where having neither employment nor preferment , he was again driven to great necessities and distress , but was re- lieved , according to his son's account , in a very remark- able manner . He was sitting one day ...
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Стр. 457 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Стр. 444 - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.
Стр. 448 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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Стр. 443 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Стр. 513 - I acknowledge you are fitter to be the bishop of Durham than I am to be parson of this church of yours. I ask forgiveness for past injuries. Forgive me, father. I know you have enemies, but while I live bishop of Durham, be secure, none of them shall cause you any farther trouble.
Стр. 353 - O that I had never known what a court was! Dear Pope, what a barren soil (to me so) have I been striving to produce something out of! Why did I not take your advice before my writing fables for the duke, not to write them? Or rather, to write them for some young nobleman? It is my very hard fate, I must get nothing, write for them or against them.