Lives of Great and Celebrated Characters of All Ages and Countries: Comprising Heroes, Conquerors, Jugglers and Other Curiosities of Human NatureLeary, Getz & Company, 1860 - 767 páginas |
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... Scotland on the demise of Queen Anne , he succeeded to the title of Lovat , to which a good estate was annexed ; but , in the fol- lowing year , when the Pretender landed in Scotland , he for a while abet- ted his cause , but finding ...
... Scotland on the demise of Queen Anne , he succeeded to the title of Lovat , to which a good estate was annexed ; but , in the fol- lowing year , when the Pretender landed in Scotland , he for a while abet- ted his cause , but finding ...
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... Scotland , to be interred in his own burying- place at Kirkhill church , Inverness . An unfortunate accident occurred at the execution , by one of the scaf- folds , erected for the use of the spectators , breaking down . Several per ...
... Scotland , to be interred in his own burying- place at Kirkhill church , Inverness . An unfortunate accident occurred at the execution , by one of the scaf- folds , erected for the use of the spectators , breaking down . Several per ...
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... Scotland were extremely dispirited , and their commerce severely injured by the failure of the Darien expedition , many thought favourably of it , and not a few were sanguine enough to suppose that it would go far to remedy every ...
... Scotland were extremely dispirited , and their commerce severely injured by the failure of the Darien expedition , many thought favourably of it , and not a few were sanguine enough to suppose that it would go far to remedy every ...
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... Scotland consisted of constituting a council of trade , under the control of parliament , with power to issue notes , which were to be circulated in three ways : 1st , By purchasing lands , and paying the price in these notes ; 2dly ...
... Scotland consisted of constituting a council of trade , under the control of parliament , with power to issue notes , which were to be circulated in three ways : 1st , By purchasing lands , and paying the price in these notes ; 2dly ...
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... Scotland , a royal bank , and united with it the plan of a company for colonizing Louisiana ; the access to which territory being by the river Mississippi , gave to his project the name of the Mississippi scheme . This project went so ...
... Scotland , a royal bank , and united with it the plan of a company for colonizing Louisiana ; the access to which territory being by the river Mississippi , gave to his project the name of the Mississippi scheme . This project went so ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration afterwards appeared appointed army arrived attack Augereau Austria battle became body Bonaparte born called Captain celebrated character Charles Cisalpine republic command conduct court death died Directory Duke Elwes emperor England English entered Europe father favour fleet fortune France French French empire friends gave Genoa gentleman Gutenberg honour hundred Italy king labours lady letter lived London Lord Lord Byron Lusiad manner Maria Theresa marriage married master ment Mentz Miguel Cervantes minister Naples Napoleon never obliged observed obtained occasion officers Paris passed peace person Poland Pope possessed Prince Prince Metternich prisoner procured queen received reign remained remarkable residence retired returned Russian sailed says Scotland sent ships singular soldiers soon Spain Strasbourg Talleyrand thing thought thousand tion took town troops Vienna visited whole wife wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 298 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 507 - I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.
Página 526 - I went over to France with a view of prosecuting my studies in a country retreat ; and I there laid that plan of life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature.
Página 188 - Son William, if you and your friends keep to your plain way of preaching, and keep to your plain way of living, you will make an end of the priests to the end of the world.
Página 517 - The doctor, having first asked him if he could bear the whole truth, which way soever it might lead, and being answered that he could, declared that, in his opinion, he could not recover without a miracle. " Then," said Johnson, " I will take no more physic, not even my opiates ; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."^) In this resolution he persevered, and, at the same time, used only the weakest kinds of sustenance.
Página 627 - Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects...
Página 140 - HERE lies old Hobson : Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one He's here stuck in a slough and overthrown.
Página 194 - Let us take the Road. Hark! I hear the sound of Coaches! The hour of Attack approaches, To your Arms, brave Boys, and load. See the Ball I hold! Let the Chymists toil like Asses, Our fire their fire surpasses, And turns all our Lead to Gold.
Página 582 - ... as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect (for he was not confident as to the words), "Oh, sinner! did I suffer this for thee, and are these thy returns?
Página 140 - But lately finding him so long at home, And thinking now his journey's end was come, And that he had ta'en up his latest Inn, In the kind office of a...