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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... continued to disquiet him , and prompted him to aim at something extraordinary , some new and singular act of piety , that would display his zeal , and merit the favour of heaven . The action which he fixed on , was as wild as any that ...
... continued to disquiet him , and prompted him to aim at something extraordinary , some new and singular act of piety , that would display his zeal , and merit the favour of heaven . The action which he fixed on , was as wild as any that ...
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... continued in his employment . The two governors preserved a good un- derstanding together ; the prince yielded in many things to Cipierre , knowing him to be of as great a capacity as any lord in France . On the other hand , Cipierre ...
... continued in his employment . The two governors preserved a good un- derstanding together ; the prince yielded in many things to Cipierre , knowing him to be of as great a capacity as any lord in France . On the other hand , Cipierre ...
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... continued him in the same posts his predecessor had bestowed upon him in that country ; but Serbellone did not long enjoy them ; he went home in 1566 , and going to Rome towards the latter end of the same year , to take upon him the ...
... continued him in the same posts his predecessor had bestowed upon him in that country ; but Serbellone did not long enjoy them ; he went home in 1566 , and going to Rome towards the latter end of the same year , to take upon him the ...
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... continued in the posts of chan- cellor and president of the council ; however , he used to say , regretting his loss , " that a chancellor without the seals , was a body without a soul . " He died in 1607 ; and several eulo- gies were ...
... continued in the posts of chan- cellor and president of the council ; however , he used to say , regretting his loss , " that a chancellor without the seals , was a body without a soul . " He died in 1607 ; and several eulo- gies were ...
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... continued to serve with success against the Spaniards and Calvinists , till his death in 1626 , aged eighty - four . Lesdignieres possessed all the qualities of a great general , with humanity of soul . While he was at the head of the ...
... continued to serve with success against the Spaniards and Calvinists , till his death in 1626 , aged eighty - four . Lesdignieres possessed all the qualities of a great general , with humanity of soul . While he was at the head of the ...
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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.