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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... distinguished foreigners , and was constantly visited by all strangers whom the love of science and letters called into England . The collected works of Dr. Mead have fre- quently been published in various countries of Europe . A French ...
... distinguished foreigners , and was constantly visited by all strangers whom the love of science and letters called into England . The collected works of Dr. Mead have fre- quently been published in various countries of Europe . A French ...
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... distinguished himself beyond any of his predecessors , as might have been ex- pected from the superior elegance and culti- vation of his own genius . His proficiency in Italian poetry would have conferred distinction even upon one who ...
... distinguished himself beyond any of his predecessors , as might have been ex- pected from the superior elegance and culti- vation of his own genius . His proficiency in Italian poetry would have conferred distinction even upon one who ...
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... distinguished man of letters of the seventeenth century , was born in 1613 at Angers , of which city his father was a king's advocate . After having finished his early studies with reputation , he was admitted to the bar at Angers in ...
... distinguished man of letters of the seventeenth century , was born in 1613 at Angers , of which city his father was a king's advocate . After having finished his early studies with reputation , he was admitted to the bar at Angers in ...
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... distinguished himself at an early age by his proficiency in literature , and at the age of nineteen published a Latin dissertation on the consecration of emperors and empresses as proved by medals . He travelled for improve- ment into ...
... distinguished himself at an early age by his proficiency in literature , and at the age of nineteen published a Latin dissertation on the consecration of emperors and empresses as proved by medals . He travelled for improve- ment into ...
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... distinguished ornament of a distin- guished family was born in Carrion de los Condes , a town of his mother's patrimony , August nineteenth , 1398 : in 1418 he married Dona Catalina de Figueroa , and died in 1458 . During the factious ...
... distinguished ornament of a distin- guished family was born in Carrion de los Condes , a town of his mother's patrimony , August nineteenth , 1398 : in 1418 he married Dona Catalina de Figueroa , and died in 1458 . During the factious ...
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Pagina 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Pagina 107 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.