Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography: Containing Succinct Accounts of the Most Eminent Persons in All Ages, Countries, and ProfessionsPorter & Coates, 1883 - 590 Seiten |
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... professor of astronomy at Cambridge . Adams , John Quincy , eldest 17 son of John Adams , and sixth Presi- dent of the United States ; born at Braintree , Mass . , July 11 , 1767 ; stud- ied while very young in France and at the ...
... professor of astronomy at Cambridge . Adams , John Quincy , eldest 17 son of John Adams , and sixth Presi- dent of the United States ; born at Braintree , Mass . , July 11 , 1767 ; stud- ied while very young in France and at the ...
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... professor of physics , and where he made several important discoveries in reference to electricity and other subjects of natural philoso- phy . Died 1802 . Epinus , John , a Lutheran theologian and polemical writer . Born in Brandenburg ...
... professor of physics , and where he made several important discoveries in reference to electricity and other subjects of natural philoso- phy . Died 1802 . Epinus , John , a Lutheran theologian and polemical writer . Born in Brandenburg ...
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... professor in the University of Upsal . Died 1836 . Aga , Mohammed , a successful conqueror and founder of the reign- ing dynasty of Persia ; born in 1734 . He began in 1780 the conquest of Persia , Georgia , and Khorassan , and reduced ...
... professor in the University of Upsal . Died 1836 . Aga , Mohammed , a successful conqueror and founder of the reign- ing dynasty of Persia ; born in 1734 . He began in 1780 the conquest of Persia , Georgia , and Khorassan , and reduced ...
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... professor of that institu- tion . As other professors were elected , he assumed the chair of pastoral and polemic theology , which he filled with ability until his death , in 1851 . He was remarkable for his eloquence as a preacher ...
... professor of that institu- tion . As other professors were elected , he assumed the chair of pastoral and polemic theology , which he filled with ability until his death , in 1851 . He was remarkable for his eloquence as a preacher ...
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... professor of geology in King's College , London , was born in that city about 1812. He was the author of many valuable works on geology . Anster , John , an Irish poet . Born in Cork County about 1796 ; died 1867 . Antar , an Arabian ...
... professor of geology in King's College , London , was born in that city about 1812. He was the author of many valuable works on geology . Anster , John , an Irish poet . Born in Cork County about 1796 ; died 1867 . Antar , an Arabian ...
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Seite 362 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Seite 519 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Seite 362 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Seite 388 - Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...
Seite 89 - Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written.
Seite 108 - ... whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us he is still a man, young, noble, and unhappy. To our children he will be merely a writer ; and their impartial judgment will appoint his place among writers, without regard to his rank or to his private history. That his poetry will undergo a severe sifting, that much of what has been admired by his contemporaries will be rejected as worthless, we have little doubt. But we have as little doubt that, after...
Seite 167 - It may be affirmed, without any encomiastic fervour, that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning, and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply...
Seite 363 - He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.
Seite 101 - Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress.
Seite 584 - It is a singular fact that the will of the donor was made on the very day on which the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the College, Mr.