The Biographical Magazine: Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters, Tom 2E. Wilson., 1820 |
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... March 1615. He left one daughter , Frances Beaumont , who died in Leicestershire , in 1700. This lady had in her pos session several poems composed by her father ; but they were lost at sea in her passage from Ireland , where she had ...
... March 1615. He left one daughter , Frances Beaumont , who died in Leicestershire , in 1700. This lady had in her pos session several poems composed by her father ; but they were lost at sea in her passage from Ireland , where she had ...
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... March 1770 , on which occasion the Mansion - house was decorated with a splendour that surpasses all description . The company went in procession through the city from the houses of parliament ; and among the noble personages present ...
... March 1770 , on which occasion the Mansion - house was decorated with a splendour that surpasses all description . The company went in procession through the city from the houses of parliament ; and among the noble personages present ...
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... March 1813 , he marched out of Silesia with an army of 25,000 men well disciplined and equipped , when the Russian general Winzingerode , with 13,000 Russians , was placed under him . The Elbe being passed by the allies , the battles of ...
... March 1813 , he marched out of Silesia with an army of 25,000 men well disciplined and equipped , when the Russian general Winzingerode , with 13,000 Russians , was placed under him . The Elbe being passed by the allies , the battles of ...
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... March , he was ordered to be beheaded , which sentence was carried into execution on the 9th . His body was carried to Little Hadham , in Hertfordshire . This loyal lord , it is said , at the time of his death , presaging the ...
... March , he was ordered to be beheaded , which sentence was carried into execution on the 9th . His body was carried to Little Hadham , in Hertfordshire . This loyal lord , it is said , at the time of his death , presaging the ...
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... March 1572 ; and with his small armament , that carried no more than seventy - three men and boys , in the year following he attacked the town of Nombre de Dios , which they took by storm in a few hours ; but , owing to a ...
... March 1572 ; and with his small armament , that carried no more than seventy - three men and boys , in the year following he attacked the town of Nombre de Dios , which they took by storm in a few hours ; but , owing to a ...
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Strona 16 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Strona 20 - 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.
Strona 16 - ... that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence...
Strona 20 - Lord Byron's regiment, then advancing upon the enemy, who had lined the hedges on both sides with musketeers ; from whence he was shot with a musket in the lower part of the belly, and in the instant falling from his horse, his body was not found till the next morning ; till when, there was some...
Strona 19 - Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Strona 13 - By his natural temper he was quick of resentment ; but by his established and habitual practice he was gentle, modest, and inoffensive. His tenderness appeared in his attention to children, and to the poor. To the poor, while he lived in the family of his friend* h,e allowed the third part of his annual revenue...
Strona 11 - No distractions of mind, no foreboding terrors of conscience agitated this attractive scene. His chamber was " privileged beyond the common walks of virtuous life — quite in the verge of heaven" — and he expired like a wave scarcely curling to the evening zephyr of an unclouded summer sky, and gently rippling to the shore. It was a
Strona 15 - ... and agitated him, and when he returned to college, he was so completely ill, that no power of medicine could save him. His mind was worn out, and it was the opinion of his medical attendants, that if he had recovered, his intellect would have been affected.
Strona 7 - These busy scenes were blended with, and terminated by meditation and philosophic inquiries. Strip each period of its excesses and errors, and it will not be easy to trace out, or dispose the life of a man of quality into a succession of employments which would better become him. Valour and military activity in youth, business of state in the middle age, contemplation and labour for the information of posterity in the calmer scenes of closing life.