The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies ...C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... Duke of York . At the age of fifteen , he was entered as a gentleman - com- moner at Christchurch , Oxford . He had not been long in residence , when he received , from the preaching of Thomas Loe , his first bias towards the doctrines ...
... Duke of York . At the age of fifteen , he was entered as a gentleman - com- moner at Christchurch , Oxford . He had not been long in residence , when he received , from the preaching of Thomas Loe , his first bias towards the doctrines ...
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... Duke of York . Still William Penn felt bound to make not even this concession ; and on this refusal the admiral again turned him out of doors . Soon after , in 1668 , he began to preach , and in the same year he published his first work ...
... Duke of York . Still William Penn felt bound to make not even this concession ; and on this refusal the admiral again turned him out of doors . Soon after , in 1668 , he began to preach , and in the same year he published his first work ...
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... Duke of York he had a hereditary claim , which appears always to have been cheerfully acknowledged ; and an instance of the rising consideration in which he was held appears in his being admitted to plead , before a Committee of the ...
... Duke of York he had a hereditary claim , which appears always to have been cheerfully acknowledged ; and an instance of the rising consideration in which he was held appears in his being admitted to plead , before a Committee of the ...
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... grant not only the property , but the right of government , in large districts in the uncleared part of America , as in the case of New York and New Jersey " PENN . 11 respectively to the Duke of York 10 CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY .
... grant not only the property , but the right of government , in large districts in the uncleared part of America , as in the case of New York and New Jersey " PENN . 11 respectively to the Duke of York 10 CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY .
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" PENN . 11 respectively to the Duke of York and Lord Baltimore : and though it was hopeless to extract money from Charles , yet he was ready enough , in acquittal of this debt , to bestow on Penn , whom he loved , a tract of land from ...
" PENN . 11 respectively to the Duke of York and Lord Baltimore : and though it was hopeless to extract money from Charles , yet he was ready enough , in acquittal of this debt , to bestow on Penn , whom he loved , a tract of land from ...
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Seite 20 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 140 - A TRUE RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF ONE MRS VEAL THE NEXT DAY AFTER HER DEATH TO ONE MRS BARGRAVE AT CANTERBURY, THE 8TH OF SEPTEMBER 1705...
Seite 135 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Seite 26 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Seite 18 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walked innoxious through his age.
Seite 105 - She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection.
Seite 149 - Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah ; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Seite 144 - Till kings call forth the ideas of your mind, (Proud to accomplish what such hands design'd) Bid harbours open, public ways extend, Bid temples worthier of the God ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours peace to happy Britain brings; These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Seite 125 - No more — no more — oh ! never more on me The freshness of the heart can fall like dew, Which out of all the lovely things we see Extracts emotions beautiful and new, Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee, Think'st thou the honey with those objects grew?
Seite 80 - The particulars expected of me are what relate to morals and learning, and the reasons of quitting your honour's family, that is, whether the last was occasioned by any ill actions. They are all left entirely to your honour's mercy, though in the first I think I cannot reproach myself any farther than for infirmities...