The General Biographical Dictionary, 15권Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... soon after assisted the abbé Big- non , under whose direction the " Journal des Sçavans ' was conducted ; and he had all the qualifications necessary for such a work , a profound knowledge of antiquity , a skill not only in the Greek ...
... soon after assisted the abbé Big- non , under whose direction the " Journal des Sçavans ' was conducted ; and he had all the qualifications necessary for such a work , a profound knowledge of antiquity , a skill not only in the Greek ...
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... soon discovered the talents of his pupil , and not only formed his style , but made him his relation by marrying him to his niece , and he soon became his principal assistant . He was employed in embellishing many churches and convents ...
... soon discovered the talents of his pupil , and not only formed his style , but made him his relation by marrying him to his niece , and he soon became his principal assistant . He was employed in embellishing many churches and convents ...
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... Soon after he obtained also a bull in favour of his order from pope Honorius III . About this time he went into the Holy Land , and endeavoured in vain to convert the sultan Meledin . It is said , that he offered to throw himself into ...
... Soon after he obtained also a bull in favour of his order from pope Honorius III . About this time he went into the Holy Land , and endeavoured in vain to convert the sultan Meledin . It is said , that he offered to throw himself into ...
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... soon flou- rished through his zeal ; he restored regularity in the monasteries , and instituted the order of the Visitation in 1610 , which was confirmed by Paul V. 1618 , and of which the baroness de Chantal , whom he converted by his ...
... soon flou- rished through his zeal ; he restored regularity in the monasteries , and instituted the order of the Visitation in 1610 , which was confirmed by Paul V. 1618 , and of which the baroness de Chantal , whom he converted by his ...
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... soon became pre - eminent among the seminaries of Germany , he acquired greater fame as the founder of the celebrated school , hospital , or rather col- lege , for the poor at Glaucha . The whole history of education does not produce an ...
... soon became pre - eminent among the seminaries of Germany , he acquired greater fame as the founder of the celebrated school , hospital , or rather col- lege , for the poor at Glaucha . The whole history of education does not produce an ...
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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.