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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... whole weeks together , to execute works concerning which his master had given him no previous instructions . These works , therefore , he finished in his own way ; and Mr. Bennet was often astonished at the improvements his apprentice ...
... whole weeks together , to execute works concerning which his master had given him no previous instructions . These works , therefore , he finished in his own way ; and Mr. Bennet was often astonished at the improvements his apprentice ...
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... whole . He was not , however , equal to the undertaking ; for he was obliged , after various efforts , to confess his inability to complete it . The proprietors , upon this , being greatly alarmed , thought fit to call in the assistance ...
... whole . He was not , however , equal to the undertaking ; for he was obliged , after various efforts , to confess his inability to complete it . The proprietors , upon this , being greatly alarmed , thought fit to call in the assistance ...
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... whole , and executed some miles of the navigation , which was succesfully finished by Mr. Hen- shall , in 1777. There were few works of this nature pro- jected , in any part of the kingdom , in which our engineer was not consulted . He ...
... whole , and executed some miles of the navigation , which was succesfully finished by Mr. Hen- shall , in 1777. There were few works of this nature pro- jected , in any part of the kingdom , in which our engineer was not consulted . He ...
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... whole of his plan , however , was not his aim at first and he began , therefore , with attacking such abuses as might have been removed without any injury to an established con- stitution , but which , as they could not be wholly denied ...
... whole of his plan , however , was not his aim at first and he began , therefore , with attacking such abuses as might have been removed without any injury to an established con- stitution , but which , as they could not be wholly denied ...
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... whole party was immediately con- demned to the scaffold ; and next morning were led to execution . There Brissot , after seeing the blood of 16 associates stream from the scaffold , submitted to the stroke with the utmost composure . In ...
... whole party was immediately con- demned to the scaffold ; and next morning were led to execution . There Brissot , after seeing the blood of 16 associates stream from the scaffold , submitted to the stroke with the utmost composure . In ...
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Side 338 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Side 338 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Side 332 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Side 137 - He was once a man, and of some little name, but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Side 144 - But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy: he has many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling.
Side 382 - Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The bishop of Salisbury's son * is said to be of the gang.
Side 144 - ... a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
Side 463 - Grace to name a day, when he might introduce that modest and unfortu nate poet to his new patron. At last an appointment was made, and the place of meeting was agreed to be the Roebuck. Mr. Butler and his friend attended accordingly ; the Duke joined them...
Side 463 - When it was known, it was necessarily admired: the King quoted, the courtiers studied, and the whole party of the royalists applauded it. Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part appeared; the curiosity of the nation was rekindled, and the writer was again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon, says Wood, gave him reason to hope for " places and employments...