The General Biographical Dictionary, 15권Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... known as an author by many theological pieces , particularly " Commentarii Historici et Morales ad libros I. et II . Machabæorum , additis liberioribus Excursibus , " in 2 vols . folio ; and by his " Historia Leodiensis , per ...
... known as an author by many theological pieces , particularly " Commentarii Historici et Morales ad libros I. et II . Machabæorum , additis liberioribus Excursibus , " in 2 vols . folio ; and by his " Historia Leodiensis , per ...
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... known and respected . The fertility of his imagi- nation , joined to a style equally easy and elegant , with great precision , attracted the attention of a numerous school . In 1784 , on the death of Macquer , he obtained the ...
... known and respected . The fertility of his imagi- nation , joined to a style equally easy and elegant , with great precision , attracted the attention of a numerous school . In 1784 , on the death of Macquer , he obtained the ...
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... known to the count de Toledo , who was infinitely pleased with his conversation , and made him great offers , if he would go into Spain ; but Fourmont refused . In 1715 he succeeded M. Galland to the Arabic chair in the royal col- lege ...
... known to the count de Toledo , who was infinitely pleased with his conversation , and made him great offers , if he would go into Spain ; but Fourmont refused . In 1715 he succeeded M. Galland to the Arabic chair in the royal col- lege ...
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... known to those who maintained the cause , or those who were of ability to protect the main- tainers of it . In order to judge of the controversies which then divided the church , his first care was to search dili- gently into the ...
... known to those who maintained the cause , or those who were of ability to protect the main- tainers of it . In order to judge of the controversies which then divided the church , his first care was to search dili- gently into the ...
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... known as " Fox's Book of Martyrs . " Of this vast undertaking , some brief account cannot be uninteresting . We have before noticed that he conceived the plan , and executed some part of it when he was at Basil , but reserved the ...
... known as " Fox's Book of Martyrs . " Of this vast undertaking , some brief account cannot be uninteresting . We have before noticed that he conceived the plan , and executed some part of it when he was at Basil , but reserved the ...
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463 페이지 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, 1 Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent.
350 페이지 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
454 페이지 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
472 페이지 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions . of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
89 페이지 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
195 페이지 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
210 페이지 - In his fancy pictures, when he had fixed on his object of imitation, whether it was the mean and vulgar form of a wood-cutter, or a child of an interesting character, as he did not attempt to raise the one, so neither did he lose any of the natural grace and elegance, of the other ; such a grace, and such an elegance, as are more frequently found in cottages than in courts. This excellence was his own, the result of his particular observation and taste; for this he was certainly not indebted to the...
113 페이지 - The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century.
449 페이지 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
312 페이지 - We are now in an age wherein impudent assertions must pass for arguments : and I do not question, but the same who has endeavoured here to prove, that he who wrote the Dispensary was no poet, will very suddenly undertake to shew, that he who gained the battle of Blenheim is no general.