A New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 6B. Fellowes, 1853 |
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Pagina 380 - I had to read and to write amidst the talking, laughing, singing, whistling, and brawling of at least half a score of the most thoughtless of men, and that, too, in the hours of their freedom from all control.
Pagina 411 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Pagina 92 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Pagina 393 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted bifthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Pagina 36 - L'Orient, that when you have finished your military career in this world, you may be buried in one of your trophies. But that that period may be far distant, is the earnest wish of your sincere friend, Benjamin Hallowell.
Pagina 269 - AN ESSAY upon NATIONAL CHARACTER ; being an Inquiry into some of the principal Causes which contribute to form and modify the Character of Nations in the state of Civilization.
Pagina 286 - The Religion of Protestants a safe Way to Salvation ; or, an Answer to a Book* entitled ' Mercy and Truth ; or. Charity maintained by Catholics,' which pretends to prove the contrary.
Pagina 306 - ... daring strokes of fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon, and so happily finished, the matter so compressed, and yet so clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those faults as a writer, which he lays to the charge of others. A proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from rules laid down by critics, but that he was qualified to do it by his own native powers, and...
Pagina 35 - He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems, (especially in the amorous way,) which for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegancy of the language in which that fancy was : spread, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time...
Pagina 194 - He was engaged likewise, in conjunction with Mr. John Martyn, FRS and professor of botany at Cambridge, in preparing for the press a translation and abridgment of the " Philosophical history and memoirs of the royal academy of sciences at Paris ; or an abridgment of all the papers relating to natural philosophy which have been published by the members of that illustrious society.