The General Biographical Dictionary, 15권Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... manners , and attached to him by personal friendship , which he fully merited by his zeal in promoting their interests . He is justly characterized , even by Lord Chesterfield , " as having no fixed principles of religion or morality ...
... manners , and attached to him by personal friendship , which he fully merited by his zeal in promoting their interests . He is justly characterized , even by Lord Chesterfield , " as having no fixed principles of religion or morality ...
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... manner , from which he soon passed into the opposite extreme . As his father intended him to rise in the poli- tical world , he procured him a seat for the borough of Midhurst , in 1768 , before he had attained the legal age ; a ...
... manner , from which he soon passed into the opposite extreme . As his father intended him to rise in the poli- tical world , he procured him a seat for the borough of Midhurst , in 1768 , before he had attained the legal age ; a ...
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... manners , which appeared in all he said , and the good temper which predominated in all he did , were qualities that rendered him the friend and acquaintance , as well as the representative , of those who sent him into parliament ; his ...
... manners , which appeared in all he said , and the good temper which predominated in all he did , were qualities that rendered him the friend and acquaintance , as well as the representative , of those who sent him into parliament ; his ...
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... manner at Naples , where a handsome pension was allowed him . He gained great reputation by his po- litical works , the most considerable of which is that entitled " Il Seminario de Governi di Stato , et di Guerra . " In this work he ...
... manner at Naples , where a handsome pension was allowed him . He gained great reputation by his po- litical works , the most considerable of which is that entitled " Il Seminario de Governi di Stato , et di Guerra . " In this work he ...
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... manner , called " stila antico moderno , " which he greatly improved upon in his latter productions . On Pietro Perugino he formed his characters of heads , and his choice of tone and colour ; on Gian . Bellino , fullness of outline and ...
... manner , called " stila antico moderno , " which he greatly improved upon in his latter productions . On Pietro Perugino he formed his characters of heads , and his choice of tone and colour ; on Gian . Bellino , fullness of outline and ...
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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.