General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volume 10G. G. and J. Robinson, 1815 - Biography |
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... King William and Queen Mary . He published in 1693 " An English Version of the genuine Epistles of the Apostolical ... King's Supre- macy against both popish and fanatical Opposers of it ; " and by " The State of the Church and Clergy of ...
... King William and Queen Mary . He published in 1693 " An English Version of the genuine Epistles of the Apostolical ... King's Supre- macy against both popish and fanatical Opposers of it ; " and by " The State of the Church and Clergy of ...
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... King's neces- sities compelled him in 1640 once more to re- sort to the representatives of the people , Waller was again returned member for Agmondesham , and decidedly took part with those who thought that the redress of grievances ...
... King's neces- sities compelled him in 1640 once more to re- sort to the representatives of the people , Waller was again returned member for Agmondesham , and decidedly took part with those who thought that the redress of grievances ...
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... King . To this baseness Waller afterwards added that of endeavouring to persuade Lord Portland , against whom there was no evidence but his information , to confess the charge , and to save them both by throwing the blame upon Lord ...
... King . To this baseness Waller afterwards added that of endeavouring to persuade Lord Portland , against whom there was no evidence but his information , to confess the charge , and to save them both by throwing the blame upon Lord ...
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... King ordered a French gentleman to tell him that " he wondered he should think of marrying his daughter to a falling church . " " The King ( said Waller ) does me great honour in concern- ing himself about my domestic affairs ; but I ...
... King ordered a French gentleman to tell him that " he wondered he should think of marrying his daughter to a falling church . " " The King ( said Waller ) does me great honour in concern- ing himself about my domestic affairs ; but I ...
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... King Charles the First's letter , taken by the rebels at the battle of Naseby , he wrote in April 1685 a vindication ... King's - college , Cambridge , where he became noted by his lucrative places of paymaster of the forces , and of WAL ...
... King Charles the First's letter , taken by the rebels at the battle of Naseby , he wrote in April 1685 a vindication ... King's - college , Cambridge , where he became noted by his lucrative places of paymaster of the forces , and of WAL ...
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Page 64 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Page 33 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, " oderint dum metuant ; " he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
Page 64 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
Page 77 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
Page 31 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
Page 148 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 148 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Page 98 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 265 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.
Page 65 - Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough...