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He travelled over Anjou and Brittany to investigate the nature of the slate -
quarries , and then went to Naples to make observations on the alum mines and
other natural productions . On his return he had the misfortune to lose his tutor
and ...
He travelled over Anjou and Brittany to investigate the nature of the slate -
quarries , and then went to Naples to make observations on the alum mines and
other natural productions . On his return he had the misfortune to lose his tutor
and ...
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The light which issued from the cross and the angel illuminated the scene , and
was spread over it with the utmost discretion . Every thing appeared to have been
studied from nature , and was executed with great propriety and truth . He also ...
The light which issued from the cross and the angel illuminated the scene , and
was spread over it with the utmost discretion . Every thing appeared to have been
studied from nature , and was executed with great propriety and truth . He also ...
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He was afterwards for some time an usher at Westminster - school , and first
appeared as an author , in a translation of “ Phalaris's Epistles , " 1749 , 8vo , and
of “ Cicero on the Nature of the Gods . " About the same time he is said to have ...
He was afterwards for some time an usher at Westminster - school , and first
appeared as an author , in a translation of “ Phalaris's Epistles , " 1749 , 8vo , and
of “ Cicero on the Nature of the Gods . " About the same time he is said to have ...
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Whatever errors may be found in it , as errors undoubtedly may be found in all
works of that nature , the characters or memorials there assembled of so many
great men , will always make it a book necessary to be consulted . Besides the
works ...
Whatever errors may be found in it , as errors undoubtedly may be found in all
works of that nature , the characters or memorials there assembled of so many
great men , will always make it a book necessary to be consulted . Besides the
works ...
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... admirably drawn by himself , and neatly engraved in 79 quarto plates ; a long
anatomical and physiological intro . duction is prefixed , in which he defives and
explains the nature of the parts of fructification , especially of the fruit and seed .
... admirably drawn by himself , and neatly engraved in 79 quarto plates ; a long
anatomical and physiological intro . duction is prefixed , in which he defives and
explains the nature of the parts of fructification , especially of the fruit and seed .
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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.
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| 제목 | The General Biographical Dictionary, 15권 The General Biographical Dictionary, Alexander Chalmers |
| 편집자 | Alexander Chalmers |
| 발행인 | J. Nichols, 1814 |
| 소장 | 미시간 대학교 |
| 디지털화된 날짜: | 2007년 8월 30일 |
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