A New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 6T. Fellowes, 1857 |
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Pagina 331 - Some Reflections on that part of a Book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, written by Toland, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers and the Canon of the New Testament, In a Letter to a Friend.
Pagina 396 - A Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents.
Pagina 90 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Pagina 437 - Naples, he negotiated the armistice which separated that general from Napoleon. In 1818, he was returned for Hull on Whig principles ; but at the next election, in 1820, lost his seat, and some years elapsed before he re-entered parliament.
Pagina 389 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Pagina 282 - The Religion of Protestants a safe Way to Salvation ; or, an Answer to a Book* entitled ' Mercy and Truth ; or. Charity maintained by Catholics,' which pretends to prove the contrary.