The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1816 |
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Pagina 7
... retire to Verona , he composed , within the space of fifteen months , his Latin history of Venice , in thirty - three books , which were published in 1487 , entitled " Rerum Venetiarum ab urbe condita , " folio , a most beautiful ...
... retire to Verona , he composed , within the space of fifteen months , his Latin history of Venice , in thirty - three books , which were published in 1487 , entitled " Rerum Venetiarum ab urbe condita , " folio , a most beautiful ...
Pagina 23
... retired for some time to Orleans , and when the danger seemed to be over , returned again , and drew up a Confession of Faith , first proposed in a synod of the re- , formed clergy of France , held at Paris , which was pre- sented to ...
... retired for some time to Orleans , and when the danger seemed to be over , returned again , and drew up a Confession of Faith , first proposed in a synod of the re- , formed clergy of France , held at Paris , which was pre- sented to ...
Pagina 24
... retired to Geneva in 1589 , and resumed his functions as a preacher , and under- took the professorship of Hebrew until his death , Feb. 23 , 1591. Besides his sermons , which were highly popular and persuasive , he aided the cause of ...
... retired to Geneva in 1589 , and resumed his functions as a preacher , and under- took the professorship of Hebrew until his death , Feb. 23 , 1591. Besides his sermons , which were highly popular and persuasive , he aided the cause of ...
Pagina 28
... retired to his manor and seat of Warmwell in Dorsetshire , which he had obtained with his wife ; where he lived in a private manner , and died in April 1674 , aged fifty - nine . Thomas Sadler , esq . deputy to lord Walpole , clerk of ...
... retired to his manor and seat of Warmwell in Dorsetshire , which he had obtained with his wife ; where he lived in a private manner , and died in April 1674 , aged fifty - nine . Thomas Sadler , esq . deputy to lord Walpole , clerk of ...
Pagina 29
... . except that in a grant , dated the 4th of that king's reign , he is termed master of the great wardrobe . In Mary's reign , although he appears to have been in her favour , he retired to his estate at Hackney , SADLER . 29.
... . except that in a grant , dated the 4th of that king's reign , he is termed master of the great wardrobe . In Mary's reign , although he appears to have been in her favour , he retired to his estate at Hackney , SADLER . 29.
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Pagina 440 - What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.
Pagina 403 - The Rubric in the book of Common Prayer, and the Canons of the church of England, so far as they relate to the Parochial Clergy, considered in a course of visitation sermons," 8vo. A volume of his " Sermons on several occasions
Pagina 48 - An act for the further security of his Majesty's person and the succession of the crown in the Protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors...
Pagina 329 - ... reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst times, which his age obliged him to do; and how wicked soever the actions were which were every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them; but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always enough indulgent. If he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities and excellencies in the...
Pagina 283 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Pagina 329 - Hyde was wont to say, that he valued himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Selden's acquaintance from the time he was very young; and held it with great delight as long as they were suffered to continue together in London ; and he was very much troubled always when he heard him blamed, censured, and reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst...
Pagina 27 - Act), by which all dissenting ministers, who would not take an oath, that it was not lawful, upon any pretence whatever, to take arms against the king...
Pagina 445 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters...
Pagina 30 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Pagina 488 - Shower's Cases in Parliament Resolved and Adjudged upon Petitions and Writs of Error. Fourth Edition. Containing additional cases not hitherto reported. Revised and Edited by RICHARD LOVELAND LOVELAND, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law; Editor of " Kelyng's Crown Cases," and "Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown in the Seashore.