A General Biographical Dictionary: Containing Lives of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages and Nations, 1. ciltA. Bell & Company, 1835 - 366 sayfa |
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Sayfa 211 - English annals, was boni in London, 1119. He was the son of Gilbert, a London merchant. His mother is said to have been a Saracen lady, to whose father Gilbert was prisoner, in Jerusalem, being taken captive in one of the crusades. The lady is said to have fallen in love with the prisoner, and to have followed him to London, where he married her. After studying at Oxford and Paris, B. was sent, by the favor of Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, to study civil law at Bononia, in Italy, and, on his...
Sayfa 7 - ... months in the utmost happiness, occupied more with their love than with their studies. But the verses in which A. celebrated his passion were circulated in Paris, and finally reached the eyes of Fulbert. He separated the lovers, but too late ; Heloise was already pregnant.
Sayfa 44 - Porus, and in which he had too liberally praised him, Alexander snatched the book from his hand, and threw it into the river saying, "What need is there of such flattery ? Are not the exploits of Alexander sufficiently meritorious in themselves, without the colouring of falsehood ?" The death of his friend Clitus.
Sayfa 293 - B., who could not bear the thought of a retreat, engaged this vast force with a very inferior number, and an unfavorable wind ; but, after every possible exertion, was obliged to retreat into the Thames, on which van Tromp was so much elated, that he sailed through the channel with a broom at his mast head, to signify that he had swept the sea of British ships.
Sayfa 255 - God, according to certain rules termed lates of nature, from which he never deviates; and that the steady adherence of the Supreme Spirit to these rules is what constitutes the reality of things to his creatures; and so effectually distinguishes the ideas perceived by sense from such as are the work of the mind itself or of dreams, that there is no more danger of confounding them together on this hypothesis than on that of the existence of matter.
Sayfa 249 - Some were actuated by personal considerations, among whom was Conyers Middleton, whose persevering hostility to B., during a long series of years, seems to have originated from the latter having applied to the former, when a young student in the university, the contemptuous epithet of jlddlmg Conyers, because he played on the violin.
Sayfa 111 - To favour this he quitted his uniform, which he had hitherto worn under a surtout, for a common coat, and was furnished with a horse, and under the name of John Anderson, with a passport " to go to the lines of White Plains, or lower if he thought proper, he being on public business.
Sayfa 213 - R, without the least token of fear, replied, that he was ready to die for the rights of the church ; and magnanimously added, " I charge you, in the name of the Almighty, not to hurt any other person here, for none of them have been concerned in the late transactions.
Sayfa 279 - B. made a partial confession, and continued his intrigues as before. Notwithstanding this, Henry sent him, in the same year, to queen Elizabeth of England, to inform her of his marriage with Maria of Medici. In the mean time...
Sayfa 234 - Paris when a child, lost his father soon after, and was supported by his uncle, a distinguished advocate in the parliament of Paris, who designed him for the same profession. He applied himself to this profession with reluctance, while he showed much genius for the drama. His uncle opposed this taste, and the young man secretly left his house.