A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and Historical, of the Lives and Characters, Labours and Actions, of Eminent Persons in All Ages and Countries, Conditions and Professions : Classed According to Their Various Talents and Pursuits : and Arranged in Chronological Order : Showing the Progress of Men and Things, from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time : to which is Added an Alphabetical Index for Reference, Volume 5Sherwood, Jones & Company, 1826 - Biography |
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... civil war . 1578 The first treaty of alliance between England and the States General , January 7th . 1579 The Dutch shake off the Spanish yoke , and the republic of Holland begins . English East India company incorporated . Turkey ...
... civil war . 1578 The first treaty of alliance between England and the States General , January 7th . 1579 The Dutch shake off the Spanish yoke , and the republic of Holland begins . English East India company incorporated . Turkey ...
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... civil war . He was afterwards appointed to the command of the Netherlands , and made a prince of the empire . He died at Luxembourg , March 21 , 1604 , aged eighty - seven . His mausoleum in bronze , in the chapel bearing his name at ...
... civil war . He was afterwards appointed to the command of the Netherlands , and made a prince of the empire . He died at Luxembourg , March 21 , 1604 , aged eighty - seven . His mausoleum in bronze , in the chapel bearing his name at ...
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... civil war in which he was en- gaged . She was at length obliged , much against her will , to send away 460 persons to whom she had compassionately given an asylum ; she parted with them in tears , after providing for 99 the expenses of ...
... civil war in which he was en- gaged . She was at length obliged , much against her will , to send away 460 persons to whom she had compassionately given an asylum ; she parted with them in tears , after providing for 99 the expenses of ...
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... civil wars ceased for some time , but only to recommence with greater fury in 1567. Coligni and Condé fought the battle of St. Denys , against the constable of Montmorenci . The battle of Jarnac in 1569 , destroyed the hopes of the pro ...
... civil wars ceased for some time , but only to recommence with greater fury in 1567. Coligni and Condé fought the battle of St. Denys , against the constable of Montmorenci . The battle of Jarnac in 1569 , destroyed the hopes of the pro ...
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... civil war ensued which was excited by the duke of Guise , who thereby became the favourite of the Catholics ; but being killed in 1562 a peace was made between the two parties . Catharine was now decidedly at the head of affairs , and ...
... civil war ensued which was excited by the duke of Guise , who thereby became the favourite of the Catholics ; but being killed in 1562 a peace was made between the two parties . Catharine was now decidedly at the head of affairs , and ...
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Page 485 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 195 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 709 - Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months' Travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, some parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands, 1611," 4to; reprinted in 1776, 3 vols., 8vo.
Page 8 - ... chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those awful sentiments which such a singular solemnity was calculated to inspire.
Page 501 - WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault. Leave it buried in this vault. One name was ELIZABETH, The other let it sleep with death : Fitter, where it died, to tell, Than that it lived at all. Farewell 1 SONG.
Page 2 - May it please your majesty, your royal ancestor Mahomed Jehaul ul Been Akbar, whose throne is now in heaven, conducted the affairs of this empire in equity and firm security for the space of fifty-two years, preserving every tribe of men in ease and happiness...
Page 237 - Minchin, an amiable lady, by whom he had two sons, who died young, and a daughter who long survived him. At the ejection of the...
Page 727 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 705 - Wood's character of him is, that " he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity.
Page 3 - Distinctions of colour are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence. In your temples, to his name the voice is raised in prayer : in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still he is the object of adoration.