The History of Bristol, Civil and Ecclesiastical: Including Biographical Notices of Eminent and Distinguished Natives ...W. Sheppard, 1816 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 24
עמוד 14
... lived , neither feared by his enemies nor beloved by his friends , and died , unregretted by any of the political parties of his in 1676 . age , The civil government of the City of Bristol is vested in the corporation . The mayor is the ...
... lived , neither feared by his enemies nor beloved by his friends , and died , unregretted by any of the political parties of his in 1676 . age , The civil government of the City of Bristol is vested in the corporation . The mayor is the ...
עמוד 23
... was an assiduous member , and of the latter vice - president . He resigned the recordership of Bristol in 1766 , and the office of second justice of Chester in 1785 ; and from that time to his death , in 1800 , lived in 23.
... was an assiduous member , and of the latter vice - president . He resigned the recordership of Bristol in 1766 , and the office of second justice of Chester in 1785 ; and from that time to his death , in 1800 , lived in 23.
עמוד 24
... lived in retirement in the Inner Temple : The predecessor of the present recorder , Sir Vicary Gibbs , his majesty's attorney- general , was Richard Burke , Esq . brother to Burke member for Bristol , deservedly characterized as the ...
... lived in retirement in the Inner Temple : The predecessor of the present recorder , Sir Vicary Gibbs , his majesty's attorney- general , was Richard Burke , Esq . brother to Burke member for Bristol , deservedly characterized as the ...
עמוד 43
... Johnson and all the most eminent literary characters of his age , Mr. Burke lived in intimacy , and from all obtained the respect to which his talents entitled him . When Dr. Johnson took leave of him at Beaconsfield , to which place 48.
... Johnson and all the most eminent literary characters of his age , Mr. Burke lived in intimacy , and from all obtained the respect to which his talents entitled him . When Dr. Johnson took leave of him at Beaconsfield , to which place 48.
עמוד 75
... lived . After the dissolution he resided during some time upon the continent , and having enjoyed considerable intercourse with the first opposers of popery became a convert to the doctrines of the reformation . He returned to England ...
... lived . After the dissolution he resided during some time upon the continent , and having enjoyed considerable intercourse with the first opposers of popery became a convert to the doctrines of the reformation . He returned to England ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 135 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
עמוד 52 - On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glasshouse, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the Author of The Wanderer...
עמוד 13 - a singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against popery, and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice for it: was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon.
עמוד 148 - Sheridan did me the honour (as his friend,) to introduce me to the best society, and the first literary men in the kingdom, who all sought his company. They were sure to find him almost every night at my house, where he was the great magnet of attraction.
עמוד 52 - He lodged as much by accident as he dined, and passed the night sometimes in mean houses, which are set open at night to any casual wanderers, sometimes in cellars, among the riot and filth of the meanest and most profligate of the rabble...
עמוד 118 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
עמוד 55 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 135 - Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does Youth, does Beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead...
עמוד 408 - Duddlestone called his wife, who was up stairs, desiring her to put on a clean apron and come down, for the Queen's husband and another gentleman were come to dine with them; she accordingly came, with a clean blue apron, and was immediately saluted by the Prince..
עמוד 164 - Neither the date of his birth, nor that of his death, has been preserved...