General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volume 7G. G. and J. Robinson, 1808 |
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... lord Lyttleton , at that time the noblest patron of the muses , for his inspection . It was returned with a polite letter ; and a correspondence commenced be- tween them , which was fertile in compliment to the poor poet , but produced ...
... lord Lyttleton , at that time the noblest patron of the muses , for his inspection . It was returned with a polite letter ; and a correspondence commenced be- tween them , which was fertile in compliment to the poor poet , but produced ...
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... lord Hervey , by whose advice and encouragement he undertook to write " The History of the Life of M. Tullius Cicero . " This great work , which was perfectly adapted to his taste , and for which he was admirably well qualified ...
... lord Hervey , by whose advice and encouragement he undertook to write " The History of the Life of M. Tullius Cicero . " This great work , which was perfectly adapted to his taste , and for which he was admirably well qualified ...
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... lord Hervey , concerning the manner of creating senators , and filling up the vacancies of that body in old Rome ; which letters have been since published at large , from the original MSS . together with those of lord Hervey in the same ...
... lord Hervey , concerning the manner of creating senators , and filling up the vacancies of that body in old Rome ; which letters have been since published at large , from the original MSS . together with those of lord Hervey in the same ...
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... Lord Bishop of London's Dis- courses concerning the Use and Intent of Pro- phecy , ' & c . " The design of those discourses is to shew , that there is a manifest connection between the prophecies of every age , from the beginning of the ...
... Lord Bishop of London's Dis- courses concerning the Use and Intent of Pro- phecy , ' & c . " The design of those discourses is to shew , that there is a manifest connection between the prophecies of every age , from the beginning of the ...
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... lord- ship's expence . The death of the bishop , however , occurring when about fifteen sheets had been worked off , and his executors not being willing to proceed with the work , Dr. Mill refunded to them such sums as his lord- ship ...
... lord- ship's expence . The death of the bishop , however , occurring when about fifteen sheets had been worked off , and his executors not being willing to proceed with the work , Dr. Mill refunded to them such sums as his lord- ship ...
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Página 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Página 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
Página 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Página 485 - FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Página 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
Página 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.
Página 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.