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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Pagina 6
... letter to a friend : " that he had lived , till the best of his time was spent , in tranquillitate et secessu ; and now ... letters which passed between him and the celebrated John Dury and others ; and though he was sensible that it had ...
... letter to a friend : " that he had lived , till the best of his time was spent , in tranquillitate et secessu ; and now ... letters which passed between him and the celebrated John Dury and others ; and though he was sensible that it had ...
Pagina 8
... letters . He established , at Florence , an aca- demy expressly for the elucidation of the Pla- tonic philosophy , at the head of which he placed the celebrated Marsilio Ficino . He collected from all parts , by means of his foreign ...
... letters . He established , at Florence , an aca- demy expressly for the elucidation of the Pla- tonic philosophy , at the head of which he placed the celebrated Marsilio Ficino . He collected from all parts , by means of his foreign ...
Pagina 13
... letters , and particularly attached himself to the study of eloquence . Either from disposition or habit , he had formed a flowery and artificial style of expression even in conversation , which appear- ed like affectation , but was ...
... letters , and particularly attached himself to the study of eloquence . Either from disposition or habit , he had formed a flowery and artificial style of expression even in conversation , which appear- ed like affectation , but was ...
Pagina 14
... letters , was a life of Mæcenas , entitled " Mæcenas , sive de C. Cilnii Mæcenatis vita , moribus et rebus gestis , Liber singularis , " 1653 , quarto . In this piece he has compiled every thing related by original authors , concerning ...
... letters , was a life of Mæcenas , entitled " Mæcenas , sive de C. Cilnii Mæcenatis vita , moribus et rebus gestis , Liber singularis , " 1653 , quarto . In this piece he has compiled every thing related by original authors , concerning ...
Pagina 20
... letter in which he represented the protestant doc- trine with the utmost simplicity and faithful- ness , hoping to ... letters as were brought to him in the evening , till the next day . Never was any person more civil or obliging to ...
... letter in which he represented the protestant doc- trine with the utmost simplicity and faithful- ness , hoping to ... letters as were brought to him in the evening , till the next day . Never was any person more civil or obliging to ...
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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.