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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... , finding by experience his own inability , was forced to so licit his dismission , with a pension of 1500l . a year . His friends pal- liated this relinquishment , of which ADRIAN IV . ( POPE ) the only Englishman that ADD ADD.
... , finding by experience his own inability , was forced to so licit his dismission , with a pension of 1500l . a year . His friends pal- liated this relinquishment , of which ADRIAN IV . ( POPE ) the only Englishman that ADD ADD.
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... ( POPE ) the only Englishman that ever had the ho nour of sitting in the papal chair . His name was Nicholas Brekespere ; he was born at Langley , near St. Al- ban's , in Hertfordshire , and , after many vicissitudes of fortune , suc ...
... ( POPE ) the only Englishman that ever had the ho nour of sitting in the papal chair . His name was Nicholas Brekespere ; he was born at Langley , near St. Al- ban's , in Hertfordshire , and , after many vicissitudes of fortune , suc ...
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... pope was famous for his wise and witty sayings , some of which are as follow : That common men should esteem learning as silver , noblemen prize it as gold , and princes as jewels . A citizen should look upon his family as subject to ...
... pope was famous for his wise and witty sayings , some of which are as follow : That common men should esteem learning as silver , noblemen prize it as gold , and princes as jewels . A citizen should look upon his family as subject to ...
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... Pope Leo X. with Royal Academy was newly regulated a public character at the court of in 1699 , Amontons was admitted that prince and in all appearance a member of it , and read there his he would have soon risen higher , " New Theory ...
... Pope Leo X. with Royal Academy was newly regulated a public character at the court of in 1699 , Amontons was admitted that prince and in all appearance a member of it , and read there his he would have soon risen higher , " New Theory ...
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... pope ; he presented it to the cardinal de Me- dicis , and made an eulogium upon him in verse . This cardinal , who was pope some years afterwards under the name of Pius IV . brought him to Rome , and made him pro- fessor of belles ...
... pope ; he presented it to the cardinal de Me- dicis , and made an eulogium upon him in verse . This cardinal , who was pope some years afterwards under the name of Pius IV . brought him to Rome , and made him pro- fessor of belles ...
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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.