Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits, with memoirs by A.T. Malkin]. |
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... called , ' A short View of the Present State of Europe . ' It derives its chief interest from having been written at the early age of nineteen ; but the civil and political views are sound , and the composition graceful . In 1579 Sir ...
... called , ' A short View of the Present State of Europe . ' It derives its chief interest from having been written at the early age of nineteen ; but the civil and political views are sound , and the composition graceful . In 1579 Sir ...
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... called the Greatest Birth of Time . ' It was never published , and is lost in its separate form , but the substance of it remains in his Instauration . In 1582 Bacon was called to the bar , and in 1588 was chosen Reader or Lecturer by ...
... called the Greatest Birth of Time . ' It was never published , and is lost in its separate form , but the substance of it remains in his Instauration . In 1582 Bacon was called to the bar , and in 1588 was chosen Reader or Lecturer by ...
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... called this assembly together for more than ten years , except for the short session of two months in 1614 , and during that period had been subsisting on the unconstitutional resources of benevolences , and the sale of monopolies ...
... called this assembly together for more than ten years , except for the short session of two months in 1614 , and during that period had been subsisting on the unconstitutional resources of benevolences , and the sale of monopolies ...
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... called the Rudolphine , intended to supersede those calculated on the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems . He was in- terrupted in this labour by death , in 1601 ; and the task of finishing it was intrusted to Kepler , who suc- ceeded him ...
... called the Rudolphine , intended to supersede those calculated on the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems . He was in- terrupted in this labour by death , in 1601 ; and the task of finishing it was intrusted to Kepler , who suc- ceeded him ...
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... called the Prussian Tables , had been calculated after the discoveries of Copernicus , by two of that great astronomer's pupils . All these , however , were super- seded in consequence of the observations of Tycho Brahe , observations ...
... called the Prussian Tables , had been calculated after the discoveries of Copernicus , by two of that great astronomer's pupils . All these , however , were super- seded in consequence of the observations of Tycho Brahe , observations ...
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Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits ... Arthur Thomas Malkin Volledige weergave - 1838 |
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admirable afterwards ancient Anne of Austria appears appointed army attack authority Bacon became Ben Jonson Blake Bossuet Buckinghamshire called Cardinal celebrated character Charles church Coke command conduct court Cromwell death doctrines Duke Dutch enemy engaged England English father favour favourite fortune France French friends Galileo genius Grotius Gustavus Hampden Henry Holland honour House Inner Temple Jonson Kepler King King's labours learning letters Long Parliament Lord Louis Louis XIII master ment mind minister Murillo nature never occasion opinions Oxford painted painter Paris Parliament party Pascal Paul Veronese political Poussin Prince Prince of Orange Protestant published Queen received remarkable reputation Richelieu Rome Rosny royal Rubens says Selden sent siege Sir Edward Coke soon Spain spirit success Sweden talents tion Titian took treatise troops Turenne University of Oxford Vauban writings
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Pagina 60 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Pagina 128 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Pagina 191 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Pagina 126 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Pagina 56 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Pagina 287 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Pagina 55 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Pagina 449 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Pagina 34 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Pagina 64 - Till then, our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their Tragedies were only Histories in dialogue ; and their Comedies followed the thread of any novel as they found it, no less implicitly than if it had been true history.