By his father he was descended from the Robertsons of Gladney in the county of Fife ; a branch of the respectable family of the same name, which has, for many generations, possessed the estate of Struan in Perthshire. He was born in 1721, at Borthwick... Annual Register of World Events - Pàgina 7101803Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pàgines
...the estate of Struan in Perthshire. He was born in 1721, at Borthwick, (in the county of MidLothian,) where his father was then Minister ; and received...that time resorted to from all parts of Scotland. In 1733, he again joined his father's family on their removal to Edinburgh ; and, towards the end of the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pàgines
...no influence upon Parnell : he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin, in the year 1619, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Doctor Jones in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pàgines
...had no influence upon Parnell; he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin in the year 1679, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Dr. Jones, in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
| Thomas Parnell, Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 366 pàgines
...no influence upon Parnell ; he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin, in the year 1679, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Dr. Jones, in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 540 pàgines
...no influence upon Parnell ; he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin, in the year 1679, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Dr. Jones, in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 546 pàgines
...no influence upon Parnell ; he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin, in the year 1679, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Dr. Jones. ID that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 556 pàgines
...the estate of Struan in Perthshire. He was born in 1721, at Borthwick, (in the county of MidLothian,) where his father was then Minister ; and received...that time resorted to from all parts of Scotland. In 1733, he again joined his father's family on their removal to Edinburgh ; and, towards the end of the... | |
| Thomas Parnell - 1866 - 358 pàgines
...no influence upon Parnell ; he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin, in the year 1679, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Dr. Jones, in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
| Charles Churchill, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell - 1880 - 724 pàgines
...no influence upon Parnell ; he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin, in the year 1679, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Dr. Jones, in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
| Franz K W. Lange - 1882 - 262 pàgines
...had no influence upon Parnell: he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin in the year 1699, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Doctor Jones in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early... | |
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