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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... king of the East Indies in 1604. His two sons Kosrou and Kourom , tired with his long reign , sought to dethrone him . To that purpose Kosrou raised a powerful army , but being defeated and taken prisoner , his father put out his eyes ...
... king of the East Indies in 1604. His two sons Kosrou and Kourom , tired with his long reign , sought to dethrone him . To that purpose Kosrou raised a powerful army , but being defeated and taken prisoner , his father put out his eyes ...
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... king , who was persuaded to alter his last will in favour of another . The younger prince showed symptoms of discontent at the change ; and , being brought to Madrid , he was kept under the vigilant eye of cardinal Ximenes . Some time ...
... king , who was persuaded to alter his last will in favour of another . The younger prince showed symptoms of discontent at the change ; and , being brought to Madrid , he was kept under the vigilant eye of cardinal Ximenes . Some time ...
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... king of the Romans . On the death of Ferdinand in 1564 , he succeeded to the empire without opposition . He was then at the age of thirty - seven , distinguished for prudence and mode- ration , and well acquainted with the languages and ...
... king of the Romans . On the death of Ferdinand in 1564 , he succeeded to the empire without opposition . He was then at the age of thirty - seven , distinguished for prudence and mode- ration , and well acquainted with the languages and ...
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... king's orders he fortified the town , and built a new fort , having in view the obtaining for himself the kingdom of ... king and of the people . While in office he was commanded by the king to obtain the assassi nation of Don Juan de ...
... king's orders he fortified the town , and built a new fort , having in view the obtaining for himself the kingdom of ... king and of the people . While in office he was commanded by the king to obtain the assassi nation of Don Juan de ...
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... king of Sweden , who was not only brave , but the professed enemy of the house of Austria . A league was formed , to which the king of France acceded ; and almost before the emperor was apprised of his danger , a war broke out , which ...
... king of Sweden , who was not only brave , but the professed enemy of the house of Austria . A league was formed , to which the king of France acceded ; and almost before the emperor was apprised of his danger , a war broke out , which ...
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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.