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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... known to either party . That his rigorous protection of the church from the endeavours of the puritans to new mould it , should be censured by them and their descendants , their historians and biographers , may appear natural , but it ...
... known to either party . That his rigorous protection of the church from the endeavours of the puritans to new mould it , should be censured by them and their descendants , their historians and biographers , may appear natural , but it ...
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... known by the names of Sternhold and Hopkins . Soon after his return to England , he was employed to accompany Francis , earl of Bedford , on his embassy of condolence for the death of the French king , in 1560 . And he attended Ambrose ...
... known by the names of Sternhold and Hopkins . Soon after his return to England , he was employed to accompany Francis , earl of Bedford , on his embassy of condolence for the death of the French king , in 1560 . And he attended Ambrose ...
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... known to the elector of Brandenburg , this prince appointed him his re- sident at the court of France , about 1626 ; and he pre- served this post two - and - thirty years , that is , till 1658 . Then he fell into disgrace with cardinal ...
... known to the elector of Brandenburg , this prince appointed him his re- sident at the court of France , about 1626 ; and he pre- served this post two - and - thirty years , that is , till 1658 . Then he fell into disgrace with cardinal ...
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... known what became of him after ; but he is said to have died in 1682. His " L'Am . bassadeur et ses Fonctions , " printed at the Hague , 1681 , in 2 vols . 4to , is his principal work , and is a very curious miscellany of facts and ...
... known what became of him after ; but he is said to have died in 1682. His " L'Am . bassadeur et ses Fonctions , " printed at the Hague , 1681 , in 2 vols . 4to , is his principal work , and is a very curious miscellany of facts and ...
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... known by the name of Madame de la Roche . The youthful lovers swore eternal fidelity to each other , but Wieland's father thought proper to interrupt the connection , and sent his son to Tubingen to study law . For this he probably had ...
... known by the name of Madame de la Roche . The youthful lovers swore eternal fidelity to each other , but Wieland's father thought proper to interrupt the connection , and sent his son to Tubingen to study law . For this he probably had ...
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Page 133 - The Holy Table, name and thing ; more anciently, properly, and literally used under the New Testament than that of an Altar : written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire, in answer to D. Coal, a judicious divine of Marie's dayes. Printed for the diocese of Lincoln, 1637, 4to.
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Page 78 - Cambridge he joined with those who studied to propagate better thoughts, to take men off from being in parties or from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits and a fierceness about opinions.
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...