A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons and Remarkable Characters in Every Age and NationT. Bensley, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, 1799 - 436 sider |
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... Latin compositions , of Ireland , Addison attended him which are entitled to particular as his secretary , and was made praise . In 1695 he wrote a poem keeper of the records in Berming- to king William , with a kind of ham's Tower ...
... Latin compositions , of Ireland , Addison attended him which are entitled to particular as his secretary , and was made praise . In 1695 he wrote a poem keeper of the records in Berming- to king William , with a kind of ham's Tower ...
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... Latin history of the kings of France ; but though he spent many years at it , he was not able to finish the tenth book , which was to include the beginning of the reign of Charles VIII . He died 1529 , and was buried in the cathe- dral ...
... Latin history of the kings of France ; but though he spent many years at it , he was not able to finish the tenth book , which was to include the beginning of the reign of Charles VIII . He died 1529 , and was buried in the cathe- dral ...
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... Latin poetical pieces . AMORY ( DR . THOMAS ) a dis- senting minister of considerable note , born at Taunton , Jan. 28 , 1701 , died in London , June 24 , 1774. His sermons chiefly tended providence of God ; the evidences of a future ...
... Latin poetical pieces . AMORY ( DR . THOMAS ) a dis- senting minister of considerable note , born at Taunton , Jan. 28 , 1701 , died in London , June 24 , 1774. His sermons chiefly tended providence of God ; the evidences of a future ...
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... Latin , Greek , his highness , recovering , employed Hebrew , and Celtic languages , and him always afterwards as his phy many parts of polite literature , en- sician . In consequence of this , upon t rely by his own industry . But the ...
... Latin , Greek , his highness , recovering , employed Hebrew , and Celtic languages , and him always afterwards as his phy many parts of polite literature , en- sician . In consequence of this , upon t rely by his own industry . But the ...
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... Latin version and particularly in his " Frogs " and his notes , by Dr. Samuel Jebb , at Ox- " Thesmophoriazusa . " He wrote ford , 1723 , in two volumes 4to . ARISTIDES , surnamed the Just , a celebrated Athenian general , flou- rished ...
... Latin version and particularly in his " Frogs " and his notes , by Dr. Samuel Jebb , at Ox- " Thesmophoriazusa . " He wrote ford , 1723 , in two volumes 4to . ARISTIDES , surnamed the Just , a celebrated Athenian general , flou- rished ...
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Side 20 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Side 81 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Side 53 - Dr. Donne, I have invited you to dinner ; and, though you sit not down with me, yet I will carve to you of a dish that I know you love well ; for, knowing you love London, I do therefore make you Dean of St. Paul's ; and, when I have dined, then do you take your beloved dish home to your study, say grace there to yourself, and much good may it do you.
Side 3 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Side 37 - Martin, a lieutenant-colonel, left him about two thousand pounds; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected. But man is not born for happiness. Collins, who, while he 'studied to live', felt no evil but poverty, no sooner 'lived to study' than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities, disease and insanity.
Side 62 - Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety...
Side 76 - The proposition that the sun is in the centre of the world, and immoveable from its place, is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical ; because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scriptures. " 2. The proposition that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immoveable, but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is also absurd, philosophically false, and, theologically considered, equally erroneous in faith.