The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 25Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... soon after an object of importance to obtain his co - operation with government , and in 1746 he was made joint vice - treasurer of Ireland ; and in the same year treasurer , and pay - mas- ter - general of the army , and a privy ...
... soon after an object of importance to obtain his co - operation with government , and in 1746 he was made joint vice - treasurer of Ireland ; and in the same year treasurer , and pay - mas- ter - general of the army , and a privy ...
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... soon equalled the oldest and the ablest actors . His eloquence was of every kind , and he excelled in the argumentative , as well as in the declamatory way . But his invectives were terrible , and uttered with such energy of diction ...
... soon equalled the oldest and the ablest actors . His eloquence was of every kind , and he excelled in the argumentative , as well as in the declamatory way . But his invectives were terrible , and uttered with such energy of diction ...
Pagina 9
... Soon after he quitted the university , he went to the continent , and passed a short time at Rheims , the capital of Champagne . The death of his illustrious father , while he was in his 19th year , could not fail to cast a cloud over ...
... Soon after he quitted the university , he went to the continent , and passed a short time at Rheims , the capital of Champagne . The death of his illustrious father , while he was in his 19th year , could not fail to cast a cloud over ...
Pagina 10
... soon as he was of age , in 1780 , he was called to the bar , went the western circuit ońce , and appeared in a few causes as a junior counsel . His success during this short experiment was thought to be such as was amply sufficient to ...
... soon as he was of age , in 1780 , he was called to the bar , went the western circuit ońce , and appeared in a few causes as a junior counsel . His success during this short experiment was thought to be such as was amply sufficient to ...
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... soon evident that he was destined to act a high part on the political stage ; yet , although he seemed to go along generally with the party in opposition to lord North , he had not otherwise much associated with them , and therefore ...
... soon evident that he was destined to act a high part on the political stage ; yet , although he seemed to go along generally with the party in opposition to lord North , he had not otherwise much associated with them , and therefore ...
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Pagina 511 - Then being asked which way he would lay himself on the block, he answered, " So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.
Pagina 59 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Pagina 61 - Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men, some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying; some lifting their hands to the gods ; but the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was to destroy the gods and the world...
Pagina 497 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent...
Pagina 141 - His Choice exhibits a system of life adapted to common notions, and equal to common expectations ; such a state as affords plenty and tranquillity, without exclusion of intellectual pleasures. Perhaps no composition in our language has been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice.
Pagina 58 - ... at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders.
Pagina 394 - ELIZABETH. The copious intermixture of contemporary anecdote, tradition, manners, opinions, and the numerous specimens of coeval poetry nowhere else preserved, contribute to form a volume of infinite amusement, curiosity, and value.— Censura Literaria, i.
Pagina 57 - No man ever spent less time in bed ; insomuch that he would sometimes, without retiring from his books, take a short sleep and then pursue his studies. Before daybreak he used to wait upon Vespasian, who likewise chose that season to transact business. When he had finished the affairs which that emperor committed to his charge, he...
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Pagina 59 - The court which led to his apartment being now almost filled with stones and ashes, if he had continued there any time longer it would have been impossible for him to have made his way out, it was thought proper therefore to awaken him.