The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Band 4Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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... distinguished mem- bers of the profession of the law . His father , Sir Edward Atkyns , was one of the serjeants- at - law named by the Long Parliament to Charles I. as proper persons to be made judges , in the proposals sent to the ...
... distinguished mem- bers of the profession of the law . His father , Sir Edward Atkyns , was one of the serjeants- at - law named by the Long Parliament to Charles I. as proper persons to be made judges , in the proposals sent to the ...
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... distinguished himself at the battles of Issus and Gaugamela , and in the pursuit of Bessus and his confederates , when they carried off Darius , the Persian king , as a prisoner . ( Arrian , Anabasis , ii . 9 , iii . 12 , 21. ) J. C. M. ...
... distinguished himself at the battles of Issus and Gaugamela , and in the pursuit of Bessus and his confederates , when they carried off Darius , the Persian king , as a prisoner . ( Arrian , Anabasis , ii . 9 , iii . 12 , 21. ) J. C. M. ...
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... distinguished by names : he who is one needs no name . " ( Epistle of the Churches of Vienne and Lyon , in Eusebius , Ecclesiastical History , v . 1 ; Ru- finus , version of the above letter , in the Acta Sanctorum , June 2. ) J. C. M. ...
... distinguished by names : he who is one needs no name . " ( Epistle of the Churches of Vienne and Lyon , in Eusebius , Ecclesiastical History , v . 1 ; Ru- finus , version of the above letter , in the Acta Sanctorum , June 2. ) J. C. M. ...
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... distinguished Súfi of that period , who so great , have no time to lose in making lived to an extremely advanced age , as he your preparations . " ' Attár was deeply af- had been preceptor to the poet's father , Ibra- fected at the ...
... distinguished Súfi of that period , who so great , have no time to lose in making lived to an extremely advanced age , as he your preparations . " ' Attár was deeply af- had been preceptor to the poet's father , Ibra- fected at the ...
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... distinguished celebrity as a preacher : Marsi- lius Ficinus , hearing him preach in Florence , called him a second Orpheus , saying , hyper- bolically , that his eloquence animated the very stones of the church . His extant ser- mons ...
... distinguished celebrity as a preacher : Marsi- lius Ficinus , hearing him preach in Florence , called him a second Orpheus , saying , hyper- bolically , that his eloquence animated the very stones of the church . His extant ser- mons ...
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Seite 192 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Seite 377 - T do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee. Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak, had power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.
Seite 215 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
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...