The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Band 4Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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... born in 1646 ; and was knighted by Charles II . when he visited Bristol a few years after the Restoration . He was re- turned to the House of Commons as member for Cirencester in the Oxford Parliament , in March , 1680-1 ; and ...
... born in 1646 ; and was knighted by Charles II . when he visited Bristol a few years after the Restoration . He was re- turned to the House of Commons as member for Cirencester in the Oxford Parliament , in March , 1680-1 ; and ...
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... born at Constantinople in the middle of the tenth century A.H. ( the sixteenth of our æra ) , and died in A.H. 1027 ( A.D. 1617 ) , after having discharged the offices of secretary to the Mufti , and judge , during a period of thirty ...
... born at Constantinople in the middle of the tenth century A.H. ( the sixteenth of our æra ) , and died in A.H. 1027 ( A.D. 1617 ) , after having discharged the offices of secretary to the Mufti , and judge , during a period of thirty ...
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... born about the year 1631 , and was the son of Francis Atterbury , rector of Middleton- Malsor , in the county of Northampton , where , according to Yardley , the family of Atterbury had long been settled . The father of Lewis Atterbury ...
... born about the year 1631 , and was the son of Francis Atterbury , rector of Middleton- Malsor , in the county of Northampton , where , according to Yardley , the family of Atterbury had long been settled . The father of Lewis Atterbury ...
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... born at Dôle , in 1728. He was the pupil of Pigal , and obtained one of the great annual prizes for sculpture of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture at Paris , of which he afterwards became a member . He died in the hospital of ...
... born at Dôle , in 1728. He was the pupil of Pigal , and obtained one of the great annual prizes for sculpture of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture at Paris , of which he afterwards became a member . He died in the hospital of ...
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... born at Beauvoisin near Nismes , on the 20th of March , 1686. In 1713 he published " Généalogie de la Maison de Genas , originaire de Dauphiné , " in folio . In 1759 he published , with Léon Ménard , in three volumes quarto , " Pièces ...
... born at Beauvoisin near Nismes , on the 20th of March , 1686. In 1713 he published " Généalogie de la Maison de Genas , originaire de Dauphiné , " in folio . In 1759 he published , with Léon Ménard , in three volumes quarto , " Pièces ...
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Seite 16 - He has so much regard to his congregation, that he commits to his memory what he is to say to them; and has so soft and graceful a behaviour, that it must attract your attention. His person...
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Seite 344 - are of two sorts: — Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men; but another and a worse sort of them, and the MOST PART, are fond, foolish, wanton flibbergibs, tattlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without counsel, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, tale-bearers, eaves-droppers, rumour-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every wise doltified with the dregs of the Devil's Dunghill!
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Seite 166 - ... and that every marriage or matrimonial contract of any such descendant, without such consent first had and obtained, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Seite 94 - Barbier, Dictionnaire des Anonymes, &c. vol. ii. 133, vol. iii. 125, 126; Biographie Lyonnaise, 16.) GB AUDRADUS, who always assumed the appellation of Modicus, was chorepiscopus or rural bishop of Sens, under the Archbishop of Sens, Wenilon, and not a bishop, as stated erroneously by Oudin. He was born at the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. He does not appear to have been distinguished otherwise than by his visions or revelations, the truth of which he maintained with success...