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A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End of George ... - Page 328
by Mark Noble - 1806
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...

William Warburton - 1811 - 472 pages
...character, and tells it to a man whose candid honesty and well- digested learning had rendered him one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived. This account his son, a man of learning likewise, and of approved integrity, finds under his father'sN-own...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord ..., Volume 8

William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 466 pages
...irreproachable character, and tells it to a man whose candid honesty and well-digested learning had rendered him one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived. This account his son, a man of learning likewise, and of approved integrity, finds under his father's...
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Extracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard ...

Richard Richardson - 1835 - 556 pages
...taste and feeling, preserved none of the answers to such enquiries. — To use the words of Noble, " Sir Hans Sloane, one of the greatest ornaments of...might claim him as a general benefactor to science." He was born April 16th, 1660, and seems from his very earliest years to have shewn marks of that attachment...
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'The salt of the earth', a sermon

Joseph Entwisle - 1839 - 40 pages
...Atlantic the 1 9th time on an errand of mercy to the perishing heathen, the splendid talents of a WATSON, one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived, were brought to bear on the work, and such a flame of Missionary zeal was spread among both preachers...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Life of Chatterton. History of the ...

Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 494 pages
...all; he adds a list of some of the works of which this said ancestor was the author. " This John was one of the greatest ornaments of the age in -which he lived. He wrote several books, and translated some part of the Iliad, under the title ' Romance of Troy,'...
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The poetical works of Thomas Chatterton, with notes [ed. by C.B. Willcox].

Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 528 pages
...all; he adds a list of some of the works of which this said ancestor was the author. " This John was one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived. He wrote several books, and translated some part of the Iliad, under the title ' Romance of Troy,'...
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Poetical Works: With Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley ..., Volume 2

Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 426 pages
...Datas Oxoniae in vigilia Omnium Sanctorum Anno Domini Millesimo bresentisimo tricesimo.* This John, was one of the greatest Ornaments of the age in which he lived. He wrote several Books, and translated some part of the Iliad, under the Title ' Romance of Troy' which...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 105

1870 - 878 pages
...record of knights and ladies to interpolate a certain Master John De Bergham, a Cistercian monk, who was one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived," a poet, and translator of the " Iliad," whose talents had been fully recognized in his own century,...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 38

1851 - 778 pages
...De Bergliam, was a monk of the Cistercian order in Bristol ; he had been educated in Oxford, and was "one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived." He wrote several books, and translated some part of the Iliad under the title of " Romance of Troy."...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...De Bergham, was a monk of the Cistercian order in Bristol ; he hadbeen educated in Oxford, and was "one of the greatest ornaments of the age in which he lived." He wrote several books, and translated some part of the Iliad under the title of "Romance of Troy."...
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