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... Irish writer , was born in the county of Water- ford in 1630 , but educated in Spain . In his twenty - first year he was admitted into the society of jesuits at Compostella . After teaching belles - lettres for some time in Cas- tile ...
... Irish writer , was born in the county of Water- ford in 1630 , but educated in Spain . In his twenty - first year he was admitted into the society of jesuits at Compostella . After teaching belles - lettres for some time in Cas- tile ...
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... Irish see is an historical personage , of whom even the armorial bearings are pre- served ( COTTON , l.c. ) , it is perhaps most pro- bable that his earlier namesake is purely fictitious . • [ Bale's Script . Brit . Cat . xiv . 54 ( vol ...
... Irish see is an historical personage , of whom even the armorial bearings are pre- served ( COTTON , l.c. ) , it is perhaps most pro- bable that his earlier namesake is purely fictitious . • [ Bale's Script . Brit . Cat . xiv . 54 ( vol ...
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... Irish colonel of cavalry in the Austrian army ennobled for his military ser- vices by the emperor Charles V , and was born at Basle on 23 Oct. 1705. He entered the imperial service at an early age and dis- tinguished himself on several ...
... Irish colonel of cavalry in the Austrian army ennobled for his military ser- vices by the emperor Charles V , and was born at Basle on 23 Oct. 1705. He entered the imperial service at an early age and dis- tinguished himself on several ...
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... Irish lawyer , born about 1756 , was the son of Marmaduke Browne , rector of Trinity Church , Newport , Rhode Island , who in 1764 was appointed one of the original fellows of Rhode Island College , known from 1804 as Brown University ...
... Irish lawyer , born about 1756 , was the son of Marmaduke Browne , rector of Trinity Church , Newport , Rhode Island , who in 1764 was appointed one of the original fellows of Rhode Island College , known from 1804 as Brown University ...
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... Irish reformation , was originally a friar , and first emerges into notice in 1534 , when , as provincial of the whole order of Austin Friars , he was em- ployed , in conjunction with Hilsey , the pro- vincial of the Dominicans , to ...
... Irish reformation , was originally a friar , and first emerges into notice in 1534 , when , as provincial of the whole order of Austin Friars , he was em- ployed , in conjunction with Hilsey , the pro- vincial of the Dominicans , to ...
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Side 343 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Side 337 - I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you.' — ' No, Sir,' said Johnson, ' it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.
Side 238 - Who knows the inscrutable design? Blessed be He who took and gave! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave? We bow to Heaven that willed it so, That darkly rules the fate of all, That sends the respite or the blow, That's free to give or to recall.
Side 253 - Pathomyotomia Or a Dissection Of the significative Muscles of the Affections of the Minde. Being an Essay to a New Method of observing the most Important movings of the Muscles of the Head, as they are the neerest and Immediate Organs of the Voluntarie or Impetuous motions of the Mind. With the Proposall of a new Nomenclature of the Muscles. By JB Sirnamed the Chirosopher.
Side 60 - In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the Church is my text ; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment : where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva, but the dictates of my own reason.
Side 23 - I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee. Dr. Fell.
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Side 70 - The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
Side 56 - 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 272 - As for his person, he was tall of stature, strong-boned, though not corpulent, somewhat of a ruddy face, with sparkling eyes, wearing his hair on his upper lip, after the old British fashion ; his hair reddish, but, in his latter days, time had sprinkled it with grey; his nose well set, but not declining or bending, and his mouth moderately large ;' his forehead something high; and his habit always plain and modest.