. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... ous editions. He died in1743. AKBAR, Mohammeu, one of thegreatest of the Mogul sovereigns, was onlyfourteen years of age when, in 1555, hesucceeded his father Humaoon. The totaldefeat of the Fatans, in the fiillowing year, one of the first events that signalizedhis reign. He held the throne lor fiftyyears, during a considerable part of whichtime he had to contend against insurrec-tions and foreign enemies. His aimswere successful in all quarters. Akbarwas valiant, generous, and the
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... ous editions. He died in1743. AKBAR, Mohammeu, one of thegreatest of the Mogul sovereigns, was onlyfourteen years of age when, in 1555, hesucceeded his father Humaoon. The totaldefeat of the Fatans, in the fiillowing year, one of the first events that signalizedhis reign. He held the throne lor fiftyyears, during a considerable part of whichtime he had to contend against insurrec-tions and foreign enemies. His aimswere successful in all quarters. Akbarwas valiant, generous, and the friend andliljeral patron of learning; he displayed aclemency uncommon in an oriental mon-arch; and a freedom from bigotry whichwas e(|iiallv surprising in a died in 1605,and his death was caused,or accelerated, by grief for the loss of afavourite son. AKENSIDE, Mark, born, in 1721, atNewcastle upon Tyne, was the son of arespeclalile butcher, who sent him to studydivinity at Edinburgh, to (|ualify him for ALA foecoaaing a dissenting minister. Prefer-ring, however, the medical profession, he. went to l«yden, where, in 1744, he tookhis doctors degree. In that year he pub-lished the Pleasures of Imagination, forwliich Pope is said to have advised Dods-ley not to make a niggardly ofler, as tiieauthor was no every-day writer. HisEpistle to Curio (Pulteiiey),and ten Odes,appeared in the following year. He firstsettled as a physician at Northampton;but, being unsuccessful there, he removedfirst to Hampsteud, and next to London;his friend Mr. Dyson generously allowinghim three hundred pounds a year, to ena-ble him t.) make the necessary he rose in reputation, and would,perhaps, liave succeeded to tlie full extentof his wishes, iiad he not been carriedotf by a putrid fever in 1770. Akensidewas a learned man, and an advocate forcivil and religious liberty; Ixit he is accu-sed of having lieen vain and irritable,—acharge which has often been broughtaga
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