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James Granger. A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND . REIGN OF CHARLES II . CONTINUED . CLASS IV . THE CLERGY . ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS . GILBERTUS SHELDON , archiepiscopus Cantuari- ensis ; half length ; h . sh . mezz . The print exactly ...
James Granger. A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND . REIGN OF CHARLES II . CONTINUED . CLASS IV . THE CLERGY . ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS . GILBERTUS SHELDON , archiepiscopus Cantuari- ensis ; half length ; h . sh . mezz . The print exactly ...
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... continued in the 1672 . university during the interregnum , and was then much esteemed by Dr. Wilson , the music professor , for his extraordinary skill on the lute . He was , upon the restoration , made chaplain to Dr. Sheldon , bishop ...
... continued in the 1672 . university during the interregnum , and was then much esteemed by Dr. Wilson , the music professor , for his extraordinary skill on the lute . He was , upon the restoration , made chaplain to Dr. Sheldon , bishop ...
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... continued to publish when he could no longer see to write ; and retained an amanuensis to the time of his death . He was much in favour with Archbishop Laud , and distinguished himself in the controversy be- tween that prelate and ...
... continued to publish when he could no longer see to write ; and retained an amanuensis to the time of his death . He was much in favour with Archbishop Laud , and distinguished himself in the controversy be- tween that prelate and ...
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... continued division , to an infinite series ; which series was afterward employed by Lord Brouncker in squaring the hyperbola . He was the inventor of the modern art of deciphering , + which he practised in the time of the civil war ...
... continued division , to an infinite series ; which series was afterward employed by Lord Brouncker in squaring the hyperbola . He was the inventor of the modern art of deciphering , + which he practised in the time of the civil war ...
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... continued , without inter- ruption , to the end of that prelate's life . His abilities qualified him for the highest dignities in the church : and it is certain that great offers were made him ; but he could never be prevailed with to ...
... continued , without inter- ruption , to the end of that prelate's life . His abilities qualified him for the highest dignities in the church : and it is certain that great offers were made him ; but he could never be prevailed with to ...
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Side 80 - Knight of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle, and...
Side 113 - I have, sir, neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am. And I humbly ask pardon, that I cannot give any other answer to what your majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Side 288 - Oxford, did about forty years ago find a dead rat in the physic garden, which he made to resemble the common picture of dragons, by altering its head and tail, and thrusting in taper sharp sticks, which distended the skin on each side, till it mimicked wings. He let it dry as hard as possible. The learned immediately pronounced it a dragon , and one of them sent an accurate description of it to Dr.
Side 342 - WORKS. --Musick's Monument ; or, a Remembrancer of the Best Practical Musick, both Divine and Civil, that has ever been known to have been in the World.
Side 126 - a man of great notions and eminent virtues ; the best speaker in the house of commons, and capable of bearing the chief ministry, as it was once thought he was very near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did.
Side 296 - THE TRUE ENGLISH INTEREST: or, An Account of the Chief National Improvements; in some Political Observations, Demonstrating an Infallible Advance of this Nation to Infinite Wealth and Greatness, Trade and Populacy, with Imployment, and Preferment of all Persons.
Side 151 - He had a piercing eye, and in characters of heroic life, a quick imperious vivacity in his tone of voice, that painted the tyrant truly terrible. There were two plays of Dryden in which he shone, with uncommon lustre; in Aurenge-Zebe, he played Morat, and in Don Sebastian, Muley Moloch ; in both these parts, he had a fierce lion-like majesty in his port and utterance, that gave the spectator a kind of trembling admiration.
Side 150 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Side 239 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Side 166 - He bears the gallantries of his lady with the indifference of a Stoic, and thinks them well recompensed by a return of children to support his family, without the fatigues of being a father.