The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1908 |
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Pagina 30
... received the degree of serjeant on 2 July 1799 , and on the same day was ap- pointed a baron of the exchequer . Lord chief - justice Eyre dying five days after the special act had received the royal assent , the same difficulty again ...
... received the degree of serjeant on 2 July 1799 , and on the same day was ap- pointed a baron of the exchequer . Lord chief - justice Eyre dying five days after the special act had received the royal assent , the same difficulty again ...
Pagina 44
... received , 3 May 1370 , a pension of 201. for life ( DEVON , Brantingham Roll , 68359 ) . Sir John Annesley and his wife inherited the castle of Saint Sauveur , which was after- wards recaptured by the French , on account of which the ...
... received , 3 May 1370 , a pension of 201. for life ( DEVON , Brantingham Roll , 68359 ) . Sir John Annesley and his wife inherited the castle of Saint Sauveur , which was after- wards recaptured by the French , on account of which the ...
Pagina 45
... received his first instruction from Samuel James [ q . v . ] , son of Samuel Arnold , the musician [ q . v . ] Among his earliest pa- trons at Sheffield were Messrs . Rhodes , Bram- mall , and Jackson , filemakers , and his talent seems ...
... received his first instruction from Samuel James [ q . v . ] , son of Samuel Arnold , the musician [ q . v . ] Among his earliest pa- trons at Sheffield were Messrs . Rhodes , Bram- mall , and Jackson , filemakers , and his talent seems ...
Pagina 48
... received an advance of forty shillings for a play of which the name is not given ; in June of the same year he was engaged on a play called ' The Will of a Woman , ' of which nothing further is known ; and in the following autumn he ...
... received an advance of forty shillings for a play of which the name is not given ; in June of the same year he was engaged on a play called ' The Will of a Woman , ' of which nothing further is known ; and in the following autumn he ...
Pagina 57
... received his professional education at Wool- wich , and entered the royal engineers as second lieutenant on 18 Sept. 1793 , and was promoted lieutenant on 20 Nov. 1796. He first saw service in the unfortunate expedition to the Helder in ...
... received his professional education at Wool- wich , and entered the royal engineers as second lieutenant on 18 Sept. 1793 , and was promoted lieutenant on 20 Nov. 1796. He first saw service in the unfortunate expedition to the Helder in ...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4 Leslie Stephen,Sir Sidney Lee Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1950 |
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Pagina 357 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Pagina 74 - ... good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger...
Pagina 47 - The whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poets, in his Iliads and Odysses, translated according to the Greeke, by George Chapman.
Pagina 417 - The Shakespeare Key: unlocking the treasures of his style, elucidating the peculiarities of his construction, and displaying the beauties of his expression; forming a companion to " The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare.
Pagina 142 - Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world.
Pagina 81 - that the capital and grand author of our troubles, the person of the king, by whose commissions, commands, or procurement, and in whose behalf and for whose interest only, of will and power, all our wars and troubles have been, with all the miseries attending them, may be speedily brought to justice for the treason, blood, and mischief he is therein guilty of.
Pagina 340 - Divi Britannici : being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the World 2855, unto the year of Grace 1660.
Pagina 421 - The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum.
Pagina 48 - I am here, my most honoured Lord, unexamined and unheard, committed to a vile prison, and with me a gentleman, (whose name, may, perhaps, have come to your Lordship) one Mr. George Chapman, a learned and honest man.
Pagina 145 - I take this method to acquaint you that I can procure copies of several ancient poems, and an interlude, perhaps the oldest dramatic piece extant, wrote by one Rowley, a priest of Bristol, who lived in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV.