Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 |
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... learned man exhibits a fingular inftance . Prynne's " Hiftriomaftix , or Treatife against the Acting of Plays , " was licensed by Archbishop Abbot . In that book there is a very strong paffage against women actors . Six weeks after the ...
... learned man exhibits a fingular inftance . Prynne's " Hiftriomaftix , or Treatife against the Acting of Plays , " was licensed by Archbishop Abbot . In that book there is a very strong paffage against women actors . Six weeks after the ...
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... learned Biographer fays , " that he who whilst " alive and in health had taught to others the beginnings of life , might himself , at his de- parting from it , become acquainted with the " preludes of death . " << Dr. Harvey is buried ...
... learned Biographer fays , " that he who whilst " alive and in health had taught to others the beginnings of life , might himself , at his de- parting from it , become acquainted with the " preludes of death . " << Dr. Harvey is buried ...
Side 84
... learned communi- cation , and what influence it would have on 66 ઠંડ 66 a practifer , as well as honor , to be regarded as my Lord's friend ; and perfuaded him to " ufe his intereft and the offices of his friends . 66 66 to procure ...
... learned communi- cation , and what influence it would have on 66 ઠંડ 66 a practifer , as well as honor , to be regarded as my Lord's friend ; and perfuaded him to " ufe his intereft and the offices of his friends . 66 66 to procure ...
Side 128
... learned order , from the following elegant and tender fentiments , which are extracted from his fermon on the Bleffedness of the Marriage Ring . " Marital love is a thing as pure as light , fa- " cred as a temple , lafting as the world ...
... learned order , from the following elegant and tender fentiments , which are extracted from his fermon on the Bleffedness of the Marriage Ring . " Marital love is a thing as pure as light , fa- " cred as a temple , lafting as the world ...
Side 131
... learned and eloquent Prelate , as he is occafionally ingenious and pedantic , luminous and obfcure , mystical and pious , sublime and low , embracing fuch a variety of matter , and concentrating fuch a mass of knowledge and of learning ...
... learned and eloquent Prelate , as he is occafionally ingenious and pedantic , luminous and obfcure , mystical and pious , sublime and low , embracing fuch a variety of matter , and concentrating fuch a mass of knowledge and of learning ...
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Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
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Side 475 - In full affluence of foreign and domestic fame, admired by the expert in art and by the learned in science, courted...
Side 101 - He was wont to say, that wisdom lay in the heart, and not in the head ; and that it was not the want of knowledge, but the pervorscness of the will, that filled men's actions with folly, and their lives with disorder.
Side 423 - I thank God that I have been enabled to come here this day — to perform my duty, and to speak on a subject which has so deeply impressed my mind. I am old and infirm — have one foot, more than one foot, in the grave — I am risen from my bed, to stand up in the cause of my country — perhaps never again to speak in this House.
Side 478 - ... I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its Divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Side 68 - Turks' man of war tacked about, and we continued our course. But when your father saw it convenient to retreat, looking upon me, he blessed himself, and snatched me up in his arms, saying, ' Good God, that love can make this change !' and though he seemingly chid me, he would laugh at it as often as he remembered that voyage.
Side 475 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters ; his social virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity.
Side 64 - ... if I would ask my husband privately, he would tell me what he found in the packet, and I might tell her. I, that was young and innocent, and to that day had never in my mouth
Side 474 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Side 137 - It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear...
Side 304 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.