| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,'... | |
| 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,'... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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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