The General Biographical Dictionary, Band 15Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... says that , during his stay at Paris , that gentleman furnished him with every piece of antiquity that he had collected , which could be of use to his work ; several were accordingly engraved and described , as appears by sir Andrew's ...
... says that , during his stay at Paris , that gentleman furnished him with every piece of antiquity that he had collected , which could be of use to his work ; several were accordingly engraved and described , as appears by sir Andrew's ...
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... says Wood , " as a young man well endowed with the spirit , and gifted with extemporary prayer , he was admitted one of the chaplains thereof in 1653 , and the same year took a bachelor of arts degree . " Afterwards removing to ...
... says Wood , " as a young man well endowed with the spirit , and gifted with extemporary prayer , he was admitted one of the chaplains thereof in 1653 , and the same year took a bachelor of arts degree . " Afterwards removing to ...
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... says that he was well skilled in Greek and Latin , a tolerable poet and orator , a theologist not to be contemned ; and so versed also in criticism and other polite literature , that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry ...
... says that he was well skilled in Greek and Latin , a tolerable poet and orator , a theologist not to be contemned ; and so versed also in criticism and other polite literature , that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry ...
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... says , one of the best divines in England . He was afterwards employed in embassies both in France and Germany ... say , must support a government , " gold and iron : gold , to reward its friends ; and iron , to keep under its enemies ...
... says , one of the best divines in England . He was afterwards employed in embassies both in France and Germany ... say , must support a government , " gold and iron : gold , to reward its friends ; and iron , to keep under its enemies ...
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... says he , " to the pulpit or chair , he came off not ill , so prudential were his parts in divinity ; when advanced to any office of trust in the university , he came off very well , so incomparable were his parts for government . " دو ...
... says he , " to the pulpit or chair , he came off not ill , so prudential were his parts in divinity ; when advanced to any office of trust in the university , he came off very well , so incomparable were his parts for government . " دو ...
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Seite 463 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, 1 Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent.
Seite 350 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Seite 454 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 472 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions . of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Seite 89 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Seite 195 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Seite 210 - In his fancy pictures, when he had fixed on his object of imitation, whether it was the mean and vulgar form of a wood-cutter, or a child of an interesting character, as he did not attempt to raise the one, so neither did he lose any of the natural grace and elegance, of the other ; such a grace, and such an elegance, as are more frequently found in cottages than in courts. This excellence was his own, the result of his particular observation and taste; for this he was certainly not indebted to the...
Seite 113 - The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Seite 449 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Seite 312 - We are now in an age wherein impudent assertions must pass for arguments : and I do not question, but the same who has endeavoured here to prove, that he who wrote the Dispensary was no poet, will very suddenly undertake to shew, that he who gained the battle of Blenheim is no general.