Public Characters of All Nations: Consisting of Biographical Accounts of Nearly Three Thousand Eminent Contemporaries, Alphabetically Arranged, Zväzok 1Sir Richard Phillips & Company, 1823 - 648 strán (strany) |
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Strana 518 - Since that publication, he has constantly appeared in the character of a writer, with success. His works display extensive reading, a lively fancy, and a pleasant wit, and are written in a flowing and spirited style. 'The following is a list of them, in their order of publication :- — a Dissertation on Anecdotes (1793); Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character...
Strana 470 - He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He was unaffected, simple in his habits, and benevolent, and as ready to do a kind act as he was to forget an injury. He died in...
Strana 368 - The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum.
Strana 143 - Italy in 1800, which are too well known to require any comment from me, compelled me to leave it, and from that time I have visited different parts of Europe, and suffered many vicissitudes. The greater part of my younger days I passed in Rome, the former abode of my ancestors, where I was preparing myself to become a monk ; but the sudden entry of the French army into that city altered the course of my education, and being destined to travel, I have been a wanderer ever since.
Strana 109 - Fitzwilliam, were of opinion that those principles were fraught with danger to this country, and they accordingly quitted the party with which they had long acted, and lent their support to Mr. Pitt. In 1794, Lord Fitzwilliam was appointed President of the Council, and in the following year he was sent over as viceroy to Ireland. In that unhappy and misgoverned country, his presence was calculated to be productive of the greatest benefit. Holding one of the largest estates in Ireland, he had always...
Strana 358 - Inn, barrister-at-law, chief justice of the Isle of Ely, Downing professor of the laws of England, in the University of Cambridge, professor of general polity, and the laws of England, in the East India College, Hertford, and a commissioner of bankrupts. He was formerly fellow of St. John's College, BA 1779, MA 1782, and was distinguished for his classical acquirements, having obtained the Chancellor's medal in 1779. He published...
Strana 404 - France ; and in 1817 was appointed governor of Barbadoes, and commander of the forces in the West Indies. In 1822, he became commander-in-chief in Ireland ; and in 1825 was nominated commander of the forces in India.
Strana 112 - Lord Fitzwilliam was Lord President of the Council. Since that period, his Lordship may be said to have gradually withdrawn from politics. In one instance, however, he came forward in a manner which drew upon him the vengeance of the ministers. After the horrid massacre...
Strana 518 - D'Israeli returned to his native country. He next made a tour in France and Italy, and returned with a valuable collection of books, and a confirmed predilection for French literature. While he was at Amsterdam, he first tried to write verse, and took Pope for his model. His earliest effort in England appears to have been a Poetical Epistle on the Abuse of Satire, which was an attack on Peter Pindar (printed in the 59th volume of the Gentleman's Magazine). In 1791...
Strana 18 - Letter to the Author of the Review of the Case of the Protestant Dissenters," 1790 ; " On the Determination of the Orbit of Comets, according to the Methods of Father Boscovich, and M.