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], 1817 - Biography |
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... ancient family of Whit- gift in Yorkshire . His grandfather was John Whitgift , gent , whose son was Henry , a merchant of Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire . Another of his sons was Robert Whitgift , who was abbot de Wellow or Welhove ...
... ancient family of Whit- gift in Yorkshire . His grandfather was John Whitgift , gent , whose son was Henry , a merchant of Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire . Another of his sons was Robert Whitgift , who was abbot de Wellow or Welhove ...
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... ancient writers have attempted . He was , indeed , an absolute necessitarian , and among certain ar- ticles extracted from his works by Thomas Netter ( com- monly called Thomas of Walden , who flourished about 1409 ) we find the ...
... ancient writers have attempted . He was , indeed , an absolute necessitarian , and among certain ar- ticles extracted from his works by Thomas Netter ( com- monly called Thomas of Walden , who flourished about 1409 ) we find the ...
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... ancient family in Northumberland , and was educated partly at Oxford and partly at Cambridge . He afterwards entered of Gray's - inn , to study the law , in which he advanced with considerable rapidity , and was chosen recorder , first ...
... ancient family in Northumberland , and was educated partly at Oxford and partly at Cambridge . He afterwards entered of Gray's - inn , to study the law , in which he advanced with considerable rapidity , and was chosen recorder , first ...
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... ancient city of York , collected by a citizen of York . " Mr. Gough informs us that the above MS . was in the hands of Thomas Fairfax of Menston , esq . Sir Thomas began his researches in Charles I's time , and after the restoration ...
... ancient city of York , collected by a citizen of York . " Mr. Gough informs us that the above MS . was in the hands of Thomas Fairfax of Menston , esq . Sir Thomas began his researches in Charles I's time , and after the restoration ...
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... ancients , are discernible in all his various writings . He knows how to make the most abstract metaphysical ideas sensible , by the magic of his eloquence ; he can make himself of all times and all countries ; he observes the cus- toms ...
... ancients , are discernible in all his various writings . He knows how to make the most abstract metaphysical ideas sensible , by the magic of his eloquence ; he can make himself of all times and all countries ; he observes the cus- toms ...
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Page 256 - Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...