Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 36Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1893 |
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... Edinburgh Review ' for July 1830 , and again , in answer to a reply from Sadler , in the ' Edinburgh ' for January 1831 ( MACAULAY , Miscellaneous Writings ) ; Poulett Scrope , ' Principles of Political Eco- nomy ' ( 1833 ) ; Archibald ...
... Edinburgh Review ' for July 1830 , and again , in answer to a reply from Sadler , in the ' Edinburgh ' for January 1831 ( MACAULAY , Miscellaneous Writings ) ; Poulett Scrope , ' Principles of Political Eco- nomy ' ( 1833 ) ; Archibald ...
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... Edinburgh . On 15 Dec. 1525 he was chosen one of the rectors of the uni- versity of Paris ( DU BOULAY , Univ . Paris . vi . 977 ) . Before 1539 he had returned to Scotland , for in that year , along with John Major , he founded a ...
... Edinburgh . On 15 Dec. 1525 he was chosen one of the rectors of the uni- versity of Paris ( DU BOULAY , Univ . Paris . vi . 977 ) . Before 1539 he had returned to Scotland , for in that year , along with John Major , he founded a ...
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... Edinburgh Review ' and ' Cham- bers's Journal . ' In the Royal Society Cata- logue of Scientific Papers ' he appears as the author of no fewer than twenty - three memoirs in transactions of societies and M.D. in the university of St ...
... Edinburgh Review ' and ' Cham- bers's Journal . ' In the Royal Society Cata- logue of Scientific Papers ' he appears as the author of no fewer than twenty - three memoirs in transactions of societies and M.D. in the university of St ...
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... Edinburgh to ask for assistance from the Scots ( cf. Hist . MSS . Comm . 5th Rep . App . pt . i . pp . 96 , 112 ) . He retired , however , on the plea of ill - health . On 16 Oct. 1643 he took the covenant . In November 1643 he was no ...
... Edinburgh to ask for assistance from the Scots ( cf. Hist . MSS . Comm . 5th Rep . App . pt . i . pp . 96 , 112 ) . He retired , however , on the plea of ill - health . On 16 Oct. 1643 he took the covenant . In November 1643 he was no ...
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... Edinburgh to inquire into the treat- ment of the young queen Margaret . This deli- cate mission was successfully performed , and Margaret and her husband were released from the tutelage of Robert de Ros and John de Baliol ( Cal . Docs ...
... Edinburgh to inquire into the treat- ment of the young queen Margaret . This deli- cate mission was successfully performed , and Margaret and her husband were released from the tutelage of Robert de Ros and John de Baliol ( Cal . Docs ...
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Page 345 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
Page 189 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All ayre and fire which made his verses clear, For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 257 - He had many quarrels with Marston, beat him and took his pistol from him, wrote his 'Poetaster' on him. The beginning of them were that Marston represented him in the stage.
Page 331 - If thou darest to print or publish any lie or libel against Doctor Parker, by the Eternal God I will cut thy throat,
Page 331 - Mr. Smirke, or the divine in mode; being certain annotations upon the animadversions on The Naked Truth, together with a short historical essay concerning general councils, creeds, and impositions in matters of religion.
Page 328 - There have been great rewards offered in private, and considerable in the Gazette, to any one who could inform of the author or printer, but not yet discovered. Three or four printed books since have described, as near as it was proper to go (the man being a member of Parliament), Mr. Marvell to have been the author; but if he had, surely he should not have escaped being questioned in Parliament, or some other place.
Page 378 - Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
Page 278 - The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred with the Greeke and other editions in divers languages...
Page 325 - HULL and he hath spent four years abroad in Holland, France, Italy, and Spain, to very good purpose, as I believe, and the gaining of those four languages. Besides he is a scholar and well read in the Latin and Greek authors...
Page 105 - ... he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the limits and bounds as well of the forest, as the pourallee.