General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, 9권G. G. and J. Robinson, 1814 |
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... lengths did they proceed , that they not only came into his church , and disturbed him when he was read- ing prayers ... length , Dr. Sanderson was prevailed upon to promise that he would at- tempt that task ; but he chose rather to do ...
... lengths did they proceed , that they not only came into his church , and disturbed him when he was read- ing prayers ... length , Dr. Sanderson was prevailed upon to promise that he would at- tempt that task ; but he chose rather to do ...
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... length the mor- tification to witness the destruction of his be loved Mergillina by the Imperial army under Philibert Prince of Orange ; and though he derived some consolation from the intelligence that this leader was soon after slain ...
... length the mor- tification to witness the destruction of his be loved Mergillina by the Imperial army under Philibert Prince of Orange ; and though he derived some consolation from the intelligence that this leader was soon after slain ...
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... length figures . He applied closely to He applied closely to the studies of anatomy and perspective , and took great pains to discover the most durable mode of colouring . For this purpose he was an observer of signs as he walked the ...
... length figures . He applied closely to He applied closely to the studies of anatomy and perspective , and took great pains to discover the most durable mode of colouring . For this purpose he was an observer of signs as he walked the ...
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... length betrayed into his hands , and the inhabitants were treated with great cruelty . The tide of success was first turned by the Roman general Balistus , who collecting the remains of the vanquished troops , harassed Sapor's army ...
... length betrayed into his hands , and the inhabitants were treated with great cruelty . The tide of success was first turned by the Roman general Balistus , who collecting the remains of the vanquished troops , harassed Sapor's army ...
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... length , in 380 , terminated by a peaceable death his long and rest- less reign , with the renown of having been one of the greatest princes of his line , though less dis- tinguished by his personal qualities , than by the successes ...
... length , in 380 , terminated by a peaceable death his long and rest- less reign , with the renown of having been one of the greatest princes of his line , though less dis- tinguished by his personal qualities , than by the successes ...
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119 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
289 페이지 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals ; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor such-aone, and Judge such-a-one. It is so with physicians (I will not speak of my own trade) soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
119 페이지 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
426 페이지 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
126 페이지 - I have read too an octavo volume of Shenstone's Letters. Poor man ! he was always wishing for money, for fame, and other distinctions; and his whole philosophy consisted in living against his will in retirement, and in a place which his taste had adorned; but which he only enjoyed when people of note came to see and commend it : his correspondence is about nothing else but this place and his own writings, with two or three neighbouring clergymen, who wrote verses too.
184 페이지 - To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne: To sage philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the...
331 페이지 - ... had his parts and endowments been parcelled out among his poor clergy that he left behind him, it would perhaps have made one of the best dioceses in the world.
430 페이지 - The Rights of the Christian Church asserted, against, the Romish and all other priests, who claim an independent power over it; with a preface concerning the government of the Church of England, as by law established,
136 페이지 - He seemed to be a Christian," adds the bishop, " but in a particular form of his own ; he thought it was to be like a divine philosophy in the mind ; but he was against all public worship and everything that looked like a church.
253 페이지 - I found that there were good books in these two sciences in Latin ; I bought a dictionary, and I learned Latin. I understood, also, that there were good books of the same kind in French ; I bought a dictionary, and I learned French. And this, my Lord, is what I have done : it seems to me that we may learn every thing when we know the twentyfour letters of the alphabet.