A new and general biographical dictionary, 6. cilt

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Sayfa 373 - He was not without some allay of vice, and without being clouded with great infirmities, which he had in too exorbitant a proportion.
Sayfa 369 - ... me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Sayfa 484 - My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place ; and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Sayfa 135 - God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell...
Sayfa 305 - He was not a man of many words, and rarely begun the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed ; but a very weighty speaker, and after he had heard a full debate, and observed...
Sayfa 486 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding: this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author: his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.
Sayfa 305 - And even with them who were able to preserve themselves from his infusions, and discerned those opinions to be fixed in him, with « which they could not comply, he always left the character of an ingenious and conscientious person.
Sayfa 306 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend; and as much to be apprehended where he was so as any man could deserve to be.
Sayfa 138 - But the pomp and splendor attending their nuptials was the last gleam of joy that shone in the palace of Edward, who grew so weak in a few days after, that Northumberland thought it high time to carry his project into execution. Accordingly, in the beginning of June, he broke the matter to the young monarch ; and, having...
Sayfa 381 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own...

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