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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... seems had puzzled the whole house , so clearly and exactly , that it was taken notice of and admired by the bench . It is not at all improbable that this might promote his being called early to the bar , at the end of six years , which ...
... seems had puzzled the whole house , so clearly and exactly , that it was taken notice of and admired by the bench . It is not at all improbable that this might promote his being called early to the bar , at the end of six years , which ...
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... seem to have been personal ; and they lasted to the end of their lives . Coke was jealous of Ba- con's reputation in many parts of knowledge ; by whom , again , he was envied for the high reputation he had ac- quired in one ; each ...
... seem to have been personal ; and they lasted to the end of their lives . Coke was jealous of Ba- con's reputation in many parts of knowledge ; by whom , again , he was envied for the high reputation he had ac- quired in one ; each ...
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... seems , had prevailed with the plaintiff's principal witness not to attend , or to give any evidence in the cause , pro- vided he could be excused . One of the defendant's agents undertakes to excuse him ; and carrying the man to a ta ...
... seems , had prevailed with the plaintiff's principal witness not to attend , or to give any evidence in the cause , pro- vided he could be excused . One of the defendant's agents undertakes to excuse him ; and carrying the man to a ta ...
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... seems to have been recommended by the practice of lord Coke himself . In 1614 there was published , " A speech and charge at Norwich assizes , " intended to pass for sir Edward Coke's ; " but he clearly disclaims it , in the preface to ...
... seems to have been recommended by the practice of lord Coke himself . In 1614 there was published , " A speech and charge at Norwich assizes , " intended to pass for sir Edward Coke's ; " but he clearly disclaims it , in the preface to ...
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... seems to have contracted an implacable aversion . After remaining five years on the foundation at this seminary , he was admitted a pensioner of Clare hall , Cambridge , Jan. 25 , 1733 ; and in April 1734 , was admitted to one of ...
... seems to have contracted an implacable aversion . After remaining five years on the foundation at this seminary , he was admitted a pensioner of Clare hall , Cambridge , Jan. 25 , 1733 ; and in April 1734 , was admitted to one of ...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volum 13 Alexander Chalmers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1814 |
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Side 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Side 161 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Side 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Side 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Side 50 - It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Side 161 - And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Side 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Side 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and...
Side 161 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
Side 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.