Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Tom 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... employed to influence his religious principles . The answer of Radcliffe was firm and dignified : " being bred up a Protestant at Wakefield , and having continued such at Oxford , where he had no relish for absurdities , he saw no ...
... employed to influence his religious principles . The answer of Radcliffe was firm and dignified : " being bred up a Protestant at Wakefield , and having continued such at Oxford , where he had no relish for absurdities , he saw no ...
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... employed , wholly abandoned to themselves , half- clothed , half - fed , and growing up in the practice of the most degrading vices . The state of the streets , he was told , was always worst on the Sunday , as of course children of ...
... employed , wholly abandoned to themselves , half- clothed , half - fed , and growing up in the practice of the most degrading vices . The state of the streets , he was told , was always worst on the Sunday , as of course children of ...
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... employed an assistant , but executed the whole of the plate himself . The Rent Day ' cost him two years and a half of incessant labour . His prints are very masterly works , and possess almost every quality but colour . He died on the ...
... employed an assistant , but executed the whole of the plate himself . The Rent Day ' cost him two years and a half of incessant labour . His prints are very masterly works , and possess almost every quality but colour . He died on the ...
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... employed , with the rank of rear - admiral , at the taking of Cadiz , where he greatly distinguished himself , and ... employ his capital and labour where and how he liked , and that all restrictions on the trade in corn should be ...
... employed , with the rank of rear - admiral , at the taking of Cadiz , where he greatly distinguished himself , and ... employ his capital and labour where and how he liked , and that all restrictions on the trade in corn should be ...
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... employed when a child as a washer of ore . When he made his first appearance in Edinburgh , about the beginning of the last century , Allan was apprenticed to a barber ; and he appears to have followed that trade for some years . In ...
... employed when a child as a washer of ore . When he made his first appearance in Edinburgh , about the beginning of the last century , Allan was apprenticed to a barber ; and he appears to have followed that trade for some years . In ...
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Strona 451 - ... if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Strona 451 - For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
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Strona 451 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him.
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Strona 445 - Steevens, the most acute, and perhaps the most learned, of his commentators, stated, long before, that " all that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare is — that he was • born at Stratford-upon-Avon — married and had children there — went to London, where he commenced actor and wrote poems and plays — returned to Stratford, made his will, died, and was buried.
Strona 449 - ... as gentlemen. His father, who was a considerable dealer in wool, had so large a family, ten children in all, that though he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
Strona 39 - The Whole Booke of Psalmes : With the Hymnes Evangelicall and Songs Spirituall. Composed into 4 parts by Sundry Authors with severall Tunes as have been and are usually sung in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands : Never as yet before in one Volume published.