General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volum 10G. G. and J. Robinson, 1815 |
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... celebrated minister will have shown itself in the preced- ing sketch of his life . The desire of preserv- ing peace abroad , and avoiding all subjects of contention at home , of promoting gradual im- provements in the trade and finances ...
... celebrated minister will have shown itself in the preced- ing sketch of his life . The desire of preserv- ing peace abroad , and avoiding all subjects of contention at home , of promoting gradual im- provements in the trade and finances ...
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... celebrated Writers of every Age , and of the several Stages and Species of History , are occasionally criticised and explained . " The author long afterwards , in a letter to his friend Hurd , speaks of this work as entirely forgotten ...
... celebrated Writers of every Age , and of the several Stages and Species of History , are occasionally criticised and explained . " The author long afterwards , in a letter to his friend Hurd , speaks of this work as entirely forgotten ...
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... celebrated Dr. Wallis , Savilian professor of geometry . He was one of those philosophers who had stated meetings at the apartment of Dr. Wil- kins , in Wadham - college , which afterwards gave rise to the Royal Society ; and on the ...
... celebrated Dr. Wallis , Savilian professor of geometry . He was one of those philosophers who had stated meetings at the apartment of Dr. Wil- kins , in Wadham - college , which afterwards gave rise to the Royal Society ; and on the ...
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... celebrated French astronomer , who in his Life of Condorcet asserts , that , in 1764 , there was no first - rate analyst in Eng- land . In reply to this assertion , the professor , in a letter to Dr. Maskelyne , first mentions with ...
... celebrated French astronomer , who in his Life of Condorcet asserts , that , in 1764 , there was no first - rate analyst in Eng- land . In reply to this assertion , the professor , in a letter to Dr. Maskelyne , first mentions with ...
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... celebrated Dr. Thomas Sherlock . He was soon after made one of the chaplains in ordinary to King George I .; and on His Majesty's visit to Cambridge in 1717 he re- ceived the royal nomination to the degree of D.D. in which he was ...
... celebrated Dr. Thomas Sherlock . He was soon after made one of the chaplains in ordinary to King George I .; and on His Majesty's visit to Cambridge in 1717 he re- ceived the royal nomination to the degree of D.D. in which he was ...
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Side 64 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Side 33 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, " oderint dum metuant ; " he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
Side 64 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
Side 77 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
Side 31 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
Side 148 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Side 148 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Side 98 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Side 265 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.
Side 65 - Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough...