Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 - Anecdotes |
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... lived ; " and fays , that he was the greatest mechanical genius that had appeared fince the days of Archimedes . Roger Bacon , in a Treatise upon Optical Glaffes , describes the Camera Obfcura , with all forts of glaffes that magnify or ...
... lived ; " and fays , that he was the greatest mechanical genius that had appeared fince the days of Archimedes . Roger Bacon , in a Treatise upon Optical Glaffes , describes the Camera Obfcura , with all forts of glaffes that magnify or ...
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... lived almost four - and- " twenty years under fo politic a King as his " father ; being alfo one who came partly in by " the fword , and had fo high a courage in all " points of regality , and was ever victorious in " rebellions and ...
... lived almost four - and- " twenty years under fo politic a King as his " father ; being alfo one who came partly in by " the fword , and had fo high a courage in all " points of regality , and was ever victorious in " rebellions and ...
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... lived , and was of course brought up to mufic and to Latin . A Te Deum of his compofition is ftill fung at Christ- Church , Oxford . The following fpecimen of his Latin , annexed to fome MSS . of Church Discipline in his time , fhews ...
... lived , and was of course brought up to mufic and to Latin . A Te Deum of his compofition is ftill fung at Christ- Church , Oxford . The following fpecimen of his Latin , annexed to fome MSS . of Church Discipline in his time , fhews ...
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... lived in his Court he both gave and " received temptation . " Puttenham , in his " Art of Poetry , " gives the following account of a vifit this Prince paid to fome Lady of his Court : " The King ( Henry the Eighth ) , " fays Put ...
... lived in his Court he both gave and " received temptation . " Puttenham , in his " Art of Poetry , " gives the following account of a vifit this Prince paid to fome Lady of his Court : " The King ( Henry the Eighth ) , " fays Put ...
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... lived in the time " of Wickliffe's feditions and herefies . Did not " the Commons , I pray you , in his time rise " against the nobility and chief governors of this " realm , and at the last some of them were put . to death without ...
... lived in the time " of Wickliffe's feditions and herefies . Did not " the Commons , I pray you , in his time rise " against the nobility and chief governors of this " realm , and at the last some of them were put . to death without ...
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