The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1816 |
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Page xvii
... Latin extracts , likewise , versions have usually been subjoined ; with the exception however of those , which follow the brief memoir of Sir John Cheke , and which from their very nature could have little interest for the English ...
... Latin extracts , likewise , versions have usually been subjoined ; with the exception however of those , which follow the brief memoir of Sir John Cheke , and which from their very nature could have little interest for the English ...
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... Latin translations . At the time of taking his degree , he had a compe- tent estate to support him as a gentleman , and suffi- cient interest to recommend him at court . He had , likewise , the advantage of a tall and graceful person ...
... Latin translations . At the time of taking his degree , he had a compe- tent estate to support him as a gentleman , and suffi- cient interest to recommend him at court . He had , likewise , the advantage of a tall and graceful person ...
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... Latin writers , was now grown extremely prevalent throughout Europe , and no where more than in Eng- land , whence numbers of the youth , and many more advanced in life , continually travelled in quest of them . * These preferments ...
... Latin writers , was now grown extremely prevalent throughout Europe , and no where more than in Eng- land , whence numbers of the youth , and many more advanced in life , continually travelled in quest of them . * These preferments ...
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... Latin tongue , a com- plimentary letter , which he had received from him upon the publication of his History of France . Here likewise he formed an intimacy with the celebrated Budæus , who , by his honourable mention of Colet , in his ...
... Latin tongue , a com- plimentary letter , which he had received from him upon the publication of his History of France . Here likewise he formed an intimacy with the celebrated Budæus , who , by his honourable mention of Colet , in his ...
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... Latin , to avoid the frivolous discourse of the table ; and he usually confined himself to a single dish , and to one or two draughts of beer . " There never was , " says Eras- mus , " a more flowing wit ; and , for that reason , he ...
... Latin , to avoid the frivolous discourse of the table ; and he usually confined himself to a single dish , and to one or two draughts of beer . " There never was , " says Eras- mus , " a more flowing wit ; and , for that reason , he ...
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