author: leslie stephen

Dictionary of National Biography

... Rochester's mistress , he had no doubt what- ever of her unfitness to become Rochester's wife . As soon , therefore , as she had suc- ceeded in divorcing her husband , the Earl of Essex , and had avowed her intention of marrying Rochester ...

Dictionary of National Biography

... MS . 6164 Sir Egerton Brydges discovered that he married the daughter of Sir ... 830 ) to Sir Benjamin Ruddyerd . Among the Lans- downe MSS . ( No. 777 ) is ... MS . makes the epitaph consist of twelve lines ; and in this 1 form it is ...

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... dedicated to his cousin Jayes , daugh- ter of Sir Edward Aston , knt . One of the characters , Gloriosus , a courtier of Epirus , resembles Armado in Shakespeare's ' Love's Labour's Lost ' ( a perfect copy is at Dulwich , imperfect ones ...

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... fin . , vi . lix - lxiii ; Cobbett's State Trials , ii . 693 , iv . 1009 ... Final Close , ' a poem , in six parts , Manchester , 1794. This poem ... 516 ; Jones's Bunhill Memorials , 1849 , p . 11. ] W. E. A. A. WILLIAM ( 1501-1578 ) ...

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Leslie Stephen. argumentative , witty , and even eloquent . ' It is as a chemist ... vaccine pock in- stitution , which became the official institu- tion for the ... essay on missions in Asia , and printed his work in the following year at ...

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... sample of the sudden conference of the privie counsel of Scotland , changes ... letter of Cecil of I Nov. 1571 , Buchanan does not refer either in his ' De ... preceptor ' ( Letter from Sheffield to La Mothe Fénelon , 22 Nov. 1571 ...

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... Berlin as envoy extraordinary to recall King Frederick William to a sense of his obligations . His conduct of this de- licate mission is commended by Lord Mal- mesbury ( Diaries ... secret article by which the provisions in fa- vour of Turkey ...

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... analysis appeared . In 1823 he was transferred by Davy's influence to the department of zoology , but continued to analyse and describe mine- rals . In 1823 he published anonymously an abstract of Lamarck's ' Genera of Shells ' in the ...

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... Wedding Day , ' followed by Eurydice , ' was published at Copenhagen in 1759. A play called ' The Fathers , or the Good - natured Man , ' the manu- script ... Tom Thumb , a Tragedy , ' afterwards mon on Rev. xiv . 9 , 10 , 11 ' ( see NICHOLS ...

The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history ... of Jonathan Wild ... and Articles in the Champion

... I hate myself for having ever censured in my opinion . O Friendly ! thou didst know her goodness ; yet , sure , her perfect character none but myself ... free , the jury found the prisoner guilty . Wild had now accomplished his scheme ; for ...

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... Louis de Berlay- mont , archbishop and duke of Cambrai . 2. ' De Sphæræ seu Globi Coelestis Fabrica brevis præceptio , ' Douay , 1575 , 8vo . 3. ' Orationes rhetorica , Douay , 1576 , 8vo . 4. ' De Geo- graphia libri duo , ' Douay ...

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... dom , ' Alexander declared To that none has a right save God alone , for of Him only do I hold my crown . ' The events were now hastening which were to enable Edward to dispute this claim , and even the driest chroniclers appear to have ...

Hours in a Library

... earthly reason the measure of God's dealings with man . To reject the Atonement because we think it needless , is as foolish as to deny that God made us because we don't remember being created . The deist seems to assume that there is a ...

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... Arc , ' which had already been offered for subscrip- tion with indifferent success . Southey con- scientiously rewrote his epic ... eve of Southey's own marriage and departure for Lisbon Coleridge fulminated ... sister . Southey Southey 285.

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... Madrigal Society ; in 1836 , A Short Account of Madrigals ; ' in 1837 ' La ... siege of Winchester Castle in 1141 , and enabled him to reach Scotland in ... siege all the goods and chattels of Oliphant were seized by Edward and bestowed ...

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... [ q . v . ] published his Death of Marlowe , ' which Mr. A. H. Bullen ... TORIGNY , iv . 139 ) . Three years later he expelled the monks of Coventry , and made ... Symonds's Shakspere's Predeces - 1184 , and in 1186 was sheriff of Worcester ...

Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2): Volume 1

... makes a man shrink from accepting as a gift what he can win as a fair reward ... society. It must be not only a competition for worthy ends by honourable ... ideal society; in a state in which we might unreservedly devote ourselves to ...

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... marriage indissoluble , had been obtained before the marriage . As a matter of fact , Arch- bishop Hamilton , who pronounced the divorce , had himself procured such a dispensation be- fore the marriage . Buchanan , in his ' Detec- tion ...

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... Fall of Papal Rome , ' & c . 1798. 4. Letters to Mrs. Hannah More , on her Strictures on Female Education , ' 1799. 5. Eight ... 8. Reasons for Supporting the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in preference to the new Bible Society ...

Dictionary of National Biography

... Fall of Papal Rome , ' & c . 1798. 4. ' Letters to Mrs. Hannah More , on her Strictures on Female Education , 1799. 5. Eight ... 8. ' Reasons for Supporting the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in preference to the new Bible Society ...

Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)

... Fall of Papal Rome , ' & c . 1798. 4. Letters to Mrs. Hannah More , on her Strictures on Female Education , ' 1799. 5. Eight ... 8. Reasons for Supporting the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in preference to the new Bible Society ...

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... French service during his father's lifetime , but did not com- mence his active military career until 1719 , when he joined the French army in Spain . In 1715 he paid a visit to England , and was presented to George I , who offered to ...

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... army in Belgium- an extraordinary proceeding , which drew a highly characteristic reply from the duke ( see GURWOOD , Wellington Des- patches , viii . 53-4 ) . He commanded the troops in Mauritius from 1818 to 1823 , during eighteen ...

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... upon his patriot- ism that he should have undertaken The History of Ireland ... Anastasia , died of consumption ; his second son , John Russell , who had ... December 1849 he talked not only freely , but most agreeably , to Lord John ...

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... David , the heir - apparent , was created Duke of Rothesay , and his uncle , the Earl of Fife , Duke of Albany . The king's ill- health still continuing , Rothesay , now in his twentieth year , was appointed governor of the realm for ...

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century

... it must be added , unless it be taken to include , a belief in the one true God . ' Nobody can add to these ... fix ' a catalogue of fundamentals ' is illusory . This ' every- one alone can make for himself ; nobody can fix it for him ...

Social Rights and Duties

... The astonishing power of the Greeks was certainly as conspicuous in poetry and art as in anything else ; and that power surely implies development of the emotional as well as of the intellectual nature . By a defect of “ altruism , " I ...

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... Enquiry into Homer's Life and burgh , in 1755 , and the third volume , which Writings , translated into English ; being a was posthumous and left incomplete by the Key to the Enquiry .... With a curious author ( whose text reached to p ...

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