A General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1

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H.G. Bohn, 1851
 

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Page 239 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 224 - I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that. And now I will wear I cannot tell what.
Page 60 - An argument proving that, according to the covenant of eternal life revealed in the Scriptures, man may be translated from hence without passing through death, although the human nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated, till he had passed through death.
Page 147 - The confederates then strove to drag him out of the church ; but, not being able to do so, on account of his resolute deportment, they killed him on the spot with repeated wounds, all which he endured without a groan. The...
Page 314 - His lordship did indeed make several efforts to speak, but could only repeat two or three words at a time, such as, ' My wife ! my child! my sister! you know all — you must say all — you know my wishes ;' the rest was quite unintelligible.
Page 19 - ... de la Maison de France et des grands Officiers de la Couronne.
Page 248 - The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America; or, Several Poems, compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight...
Page 71 - A treatise on the rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies, with a description of original Experiments relative to the subject,
Page 90 - My lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

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