The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Volum 30Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... shewed him afterwards great esteem , which he returned by honouring the duke's memory with an oration , which he pronounced some days after the funeral of that great man in 1638. He carried on a very extensive correspond- ence in the ...
... shewed him afterwards great esteem , which he returned by honouring the duke's memory with an oration , which he pronounced some days after the funeral of that great man in 1638. He carried on a very extensive correspond- ence in the ...
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... shewed them , one after another , that he could do his business without them . It must have been very pleasant to have seen this poet avoiding the reprobate let- ter , as much as another would a false quantity ; and mak- ing his escape ...
... shewed them , one after another , that he could do his business without them . It must have been very pleasant to have seen this poet avoiding the reprobate let- ter , as much as another would a false quantity ; and mak- ing his escape ...
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... shewed a great ardour for study , which his father took every pains to improve and direct . Some of his early pre- ceptors were divines who had fled from France for religion , and one of them , a Mons . Dautun , was particularly ser ...
... shewed a great ardour for study , which his father took every pains to improve and direct . Some of his early pre- ceptors were divines who had fled from France for religion , and one of them , a Mons . Dautun , was particularly ser ...
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... shewed himself your loyal subject , so you would be pleased to own him as such , by affording your gracious countenance to this his posthumous work , which will eter- nize the memory of the deceased author , and thereby con- fer the ...
... shewed himself your loyal subject , so you would be pleased to own him as such , by affording your gracious countenance to this his posthumous work , which will eter- nize the memory of the deceased author , and thereby con- fer the ...
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... shewed a very strong desire of disputing upon the most abstruse points of divinity , though he had not completed his course of philosophy , nor arrived to manhood . But when I asked him if he had leave from his superiors , promising in ...
... shewed a very strong desire of disputing upon the most abstruse points of divinity , though he had not completed his course of philosophy , nor arrived to manhood . But when I asked him if he had leave from his superiors , promising in ...
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Side 501 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Side 13 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Side 217 - I mean to speak of him in the language of our art. To speak then of Vanbrugh in the language of a painter, he had originality of invention, he understood light and shadow, and had great skill in composition. To support his principal object, he produced his second and third groups or masses; he perfectly understood in his art what is the most difficult in ours, the conduct of the background, by which the design and invention is set off to the greatest advantage.
Side 462 - A Letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe, at Bath, to his loving brother, the profound Greshamite, showing, etc.
Side 216 - In regard to two persons only, we wish our raillery, though ever so tender, or resentment, though ever so just, had not been indulged. We speak of Sir John Vanbrugh, who was a man of wit, and of honour ; and of Mr. Addison, whose name deserves all respect from every lover of learning...
Side 235 - Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent...
Side 347 - Cours d'Architecture, qui comprend les Ordres de Vignole, avec des Commentaires, les Figures et Descriptions de ses plus beaux...
Side 359 - Let the fault or misfortune be what or whence it will, it may very reasonably be believed, that, if he had been blessed with one faithful friend, who had been qualified with wisdom and integrity...
Side 333 - MASTER-PEICE OF TREACHERY, The Popish Pouder-Plot, Invented by Hellish-Malice Prevented by Heavenly-mercy. Truly related, and from the Latine of the Learned Religious and Reverend Dr. Herring, translated and very much dilated By John Vicars.
Side 58 - Perhaps no philosopher ever stated more justly, more naturally, or more modestly, than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. " My thoughts," says he, " have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of right and wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure ; and the exercise of my reason has been my daily employment.