A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 |
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... famous physician , was the fon of Wilhelmus Hohenheim , a learned man , and licentiate in phyfic , though a flender practitioner , but poffeffed of a noble library , being himself the natural fon of a master of the Teu- tonic order . He ...
... famous physician , was the fon of Wilhelmus Hohenheim , a learned man , and licentiate in phyfic , though a flender practitioner , but poffeffed of a noble library , being himself the natural fon of a master of the Teu- tonic order . He ...
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... famous German chemift ; who at that time , partly by his own industry , and partly by a multitude of fervants and operators retained for the purpofe , made daily improvements in the art . And here he affures us he learned fpagyric ...
... famous German chemift ; who at that time , partly by his own industry , and partly by a multitude of fervants and operators retained for the purpofe , made daily improvements in the art . And here he affures us he learned fpagyric ...
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... famous after his death than during his life , by the miracles fuppofed to be performed at his tomb . He is generally known by the name of the abbé Paris , and his pretended miracles have ferved to furnish fome Deifts with an argument ...
... famous after his death than during his life , by the miracles fuppofed to be performed at his tomb . He is generally known by the name of the abbé Paris , and his pretended miracles have ferved to furnish fome Deifts with an argument ...
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... famous by means of his voyages , and his tafte for the fciences . He died in the island of Sumatra , A. D. 1530 , being then only thirty - fix . The collec- tion of his verses in 4to , printed in 1531 , has the following title ...
... famous by means of his voyages , and his tafte for the fciences . He died in the island of Sumatra , A. D. 1530 , being then only thirty - fix . The collec- tion of his verses in 4to , printed in 1531 , has the following title ...
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... famous Text in the Book of Job , I know that my Redeemer liveth , ' against the Exceptions of the Bishop of Gloucefter [ Warburton ] , the Examiner of the Bishop of London's Principles ; with occafional Remarks on the Ar- gument of the ...
... famous Text in the Book of Job , I know that my Redeemer liveth , ' against the Exceptions of the Bishop of Gloucefter [ Warburton ] , the Examiner of the Bishop of London's Principles ; with occafional Remarks on the Ar- gument of the ...
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Seite 255 - Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Seite 264 - That exudative and degenerative diseases of the nervous system, due to syphilis, are most liable to show themselves at the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth decade of life.
Seite 279 - ... screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying ; some lifting their hands to the gods ; but, the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was to destroy the gods and the world together.
Seite 278 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Seite 341 - This flatters his laziness ; it flatters my judgment, who always thought that (universal as his talents are) this is eminently and peculiarly his, above all the writers I know, living or dead : I do not except Horace.
Seite 330 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Seite 239 - On the contrary, (adds he) there is nothing more regular than the odes of Pindar, both as to the exact observation of the measures and numbers of his stanzas and verses, and the perpetual coherence of his thoughts.
Seite 447 - It may be proper here to mention, that he repaid the friendship of Chetwood, by a recommendation which enabled that gentleman to follow him to the metropolis. At that period it was usual for young actors to perform inferior characters, and to rise in the theatre as they displayed skill and improvement.
Seite 457 - With double force th' enliven'd scene he wakes, Yet quits not Nature's bounds. He knows to keep Each due decorum: now the heart he shakes, And now with well-urged sense th'enlighten'd judgment takes.
Seite 260 - In him they supplied the want of birth and fortune, which latter in others too often supply the want of the former. He was a younger brother of a very new family, and his fortune only an annuity of one hundred pounds a year.