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], 1816 |
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... considerable of his other works is his rhapsody of histories : " Rhapsodiæ His- toriarum Enneades , " in ten Enneads , each containing nine books , and comprizing a general history from the crea- tion to the year 1503. The first edition ...
... considerable of his other works is his rhapsody of histories : " Rhapsodiæ His- toriarum Enneades , " in ten Enneads , each containing nine books , and comprizing a general history from the crea- tion to the year 1503. The first edition ...
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... considerable property . While here , becom- ing more attached to the cause of the reformation , he was induced to study divinity , instead of law , for which he had been originally intended ; and such was his progress and the promising ...
... considerable property . While here , becom- ing more attached to the cause of the reformation , he was induced to study divinity , instead of law , for which he had been originally intended ; and such was his progress and the promising ...
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... considerable progress in the study of the law , and was admitted one of the mas- ters in ordinary in the court of chancery , June 1 , 1644 , and was likewise one of the two masters of requests . In 1649 , he was chosen town - clerk of ...
... considerable progress in the study of the law , and was admitted one of the mas- ters in ordinary in the court of chancery , June 1 , 1644 , and was likewise one of the two masters of requests . In 1649 , he was chosen town - clerk of ...
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... considerable estate in the Fens in Bedford Level , without any recompence . These misfor- tunes and several others coming upon him , he retired to his manor and seat of Warmwell in Dorsetshire , which he had obtained with his wife ...
... considerable estate in the Fens in Bedford Level , without any recompence . These misfor- tunes and several others coming upon him , he retired to his manor and seat of Warmwell in Dorsetshire , which he had obtained with his wife ...
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... considerable address , and died the following year of a broken heart , in consequence of hearing of the fatal battle of Sol- way . The crown was now left to James V.'s infant daughter Mary ; and sir Ralph Sadler's next employment was to ...
... considerable address , and died the following year of a broken heart , in consequence of hearing of the fatal battle of Sol- way . The crown was now left to James V.'s infant daughter Mary ; and sir Ralph Sadler's next employment was to ...
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Page 440 - What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.
Page 403 - The Rubric in the book of Common Prayer, and the Canons of the church of England, so far as they relate to the Parochial Clergy, considered in a course of visitation sermons," 8vo. A volume of his " Sermons on several occasions
Page 48 - An act for the further security of his Majesty's person and the succession of the crown in the Protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors...
Page 329 - ... reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst times, which his age obliged him to do; and how wicked soever the actions were which were every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them; but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always enough indulgent. If he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities and excellencies in the...
Page 283 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Page 329 - Hyde was wont to say, that he valued himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Selden's acquaintance from the time he was very young; and held it with great delight as long as they were suffered to continue together in London ; and he was very much troubled always when he heard him blamed, censured, and reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst...
Page 27 - Act), by which all dissenting ministers, who would not take an oath, that it was not lawful, upon any pretence whatever, to take arms against the king...
Page 445 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters...
Page 30 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
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