 | William Coxe, John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - 1818 - 642 Seiten
...Winston Churchill was not diverted from the pursuits of literature, by the events of his troubled life. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society ; and may be classed among our historical writers, as the author of a political history of England, intituled... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 498 Seiten
...Winston Churchill was not diverted from the pursuits of literature, by the events of his troubled life. He was one of the earliest members of the .Royal Society ; and may be classed among our historical writers, as the author of a political history of England, intituled... | |
 | Henry Thomas (antiquarian.) - 1830 - 490 Seiten
...inven,tion of various scientific and philosophical instruments. In 1653 he was chosen a fellow of All Souls. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and evinced his ardour for knowledge by the sedulous activity with which he promoted the objects of that... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 Seiten
...obtained the rectory of Bath Abbey-church, in which city he spent the greater part of his future life. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and distinguished himself as an advocate of the philosophy of Bacon, in opposition to the defenders of... | |
 | Samuel Lewis - 1845 - 498 Seiten
...of Wilts, also a descendant of the family, assisted Dugdale in his compilation of the Monasticori ; he was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and published several works, among which was a natural history of Surrey ; he died in 1 700. John Jones,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 Seiten
...Clarendon; after whose fall he filled the same office under the Duke of York, till his death, in 1672. He was one of the earliest Members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer to Harrington's Oceana. so powerfully for the Paper Bill, 1 yet now... | |
 | Benjamin Clarke - 1852 - 820 Seiten
...that he surveyed, he realised, by that business alone, an estate which brought him in £6,000 a year. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and an original member of the College of Physicians, as BOW BOX embodied under patent in 1GG7. He died... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 532 Seiten
...death, in 1672. According to Pepys's Signs Manual, Wren was mortally wounded in the battle of Solebay. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer to Harrington's Oceana. 2 The King took possession of Audley End the... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1866 - 528 Seiten
...death, in 1672. According to Pepys's Signs J/miua2, Wren was mortally wounded in the battle of Solebay. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer to Harrington's Oceana. * The King took possession of Audley End the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 Seiten
...Declaration in Westminster Abbey and was arrested1 on a false charge of treason under William III. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society ; and a popular writer of both prose and verse.] 9 [Thomas Carew, a courtier of Charles II. and a charming... | |
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... eldest son of the Bishop of Ely, of both his names, MP for St. Michael's, 1661, and made Secretary to Lord Clarendon, after whose fall he filled a similar office under the Duke of York, till his death in 1672. According to Pepys's " Signs Manual,"... 
