The Biographical Treasury: A Dictionary of Universal Biography

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Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1838 - Biography - 846 pages
 

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Page 405 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 126 - In 1738 he was appointed one of the lords of the bed-chamber to Frederic, prince of Wales, the father of George III. Soon after the young king's accession, over whom Bute possessed unbounded influence, he was made secretary of state, and quickly after, first lord of the treasury. Under his ministry, a peace, which disappointed the hopes of the people, was concluded with France and Spain; and what added greatly to his unpopularity, was the marked favoritism he showed for his countrymen, filling the...
Page 192 - Such appearances are not to be explained only by that political fanaticism, which armed her hand with the dagger. To you then, gentlemen of the jury, it belongs to judge of what weight this moral view may be in • the scale of justice !" His words could make no impression on the minds of the judges.
Page 400 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.
Page 234 - The abdication of James deprived Dryden of all his official emoluments; and during the ten concluding years of his life, when he actually wrote for bread, he produced some of the finest pieces of which our language can boast. His translation of Vjrgll, which alone would be sufficient to immortalize his memory, appeared in 1697; and, soon after, that master-piece of lyric poetry " Alexander's Feast," his " Fables,
Page 210 - ... capital when it was threatened by the Prussian invaders under the duke of Brunswick. He was afterwards a member of the convention and of the committee of public safety, and was a chief promoter of all the acts of that terrible period. At length a struggle for supremacy took place between him and Robespierre, in which the latter succeeded, and Danton was sent to the guillotine, in 1794.
Page 367 - Prussian statesman, b. in 1750 ; became cabinet minister in 1798; and his signature will be found to most of the treaties of coalition against Napoleon, with Russia and Austria, till the battle of Austerlitz, in 1805. In 1810 he was made chancellor of state. He was one of the Russian plenipotentiaries signing --the treaty of...
Page 91 - He was one of the most learned men of his time, and several of his devotional treatises are still extant.
Page 399 - The saide Robert entertained an hundred tall men and good archers with such spoiles and thefts as he got, upon whom four hundred (were they ever so strong) durst" not give the onset. He suffered no woman to be oppressed, violated, or otherwise molested...
Page 174 - I have been bullied by an usurper; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.

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