The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Volume 3,Nummer 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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Pagina 451
... died in consequence of the severe treatment which he experienced . Aristotle indeed had from the beginning feared the un- bending temper and the imprudent conduct of Callisthenes , but yet , according to one ac- count , he had ...
... died in consequence of the severe treatment which he experienced . Aristotle indeed had from the beginning feared the un- bending temper and the imprudent conduct of Callisthenes , but yet , according to one ac- count , he had ...
Pagina 470
... died in 1493 , were character- ized by a clear understanding of the original , and by purity of style . Georgius Gemistus and Georgius Trapezuntius led the way to the di- rect exposition of the Greek text . While these new studies were ...
... died in 1493 , were character- ized by a clear understanding of the original , and by purity of style . Georgius Gemistus and Georgius Trapezuntius led the way to the di- rect exposition of the Greek text . While these new studies were ...
Pagina 475
... died A.D. 1648 , at the age of seventy- 4to . , and afterwards in Spanish , A.M. 5414 seven . Bartolocci , who became personally ( A.D. 1654 ) , which treats on the form and acquainted with him at Venice in the year signification of the ...
... died A.D. 1648 , at the age of seventy- 4to . , and afterwards in Spanish , A.M. 5414 seven . Bartolocci , who became personally ( A.D. 1654 ) , which treats on the form and acquainted with him at Venice in the year signification of the ...
Pagina 493
... died at Cromford , on the 3rd of August , 1792 , in his sixtieth year , and was buried at Matlock on the 9th ; a church which he was erecting at Cromford , and which was in- tended finally to receive his remains , not be- ing then ...
... died at Cromford , on the 3rd of August , 1792 , in his sixtieth year , and was buried at Matlock on the 9th ; a church which he was erecting at Cromford , and which was in- tended finally to receive his remains , not be- ing then ...
Pagina 494
... died in 1827 , had six sons and five daughters . His eldest son , Richard , who was in Parliament for several years , died be- fore him , but all the other sons , and some of the daughters , survived him . Arkwright's | will , which was ...
... died in 1827 , had six sons and five daughters . His eldest son , Richard , who was in Parliament for several years , died be- fore him , but all the other sons , and some of the daughters , survived him . Arkwright's | will , which was ...
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Pagina 729 - And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
Pagina 485 - ... distribution of the different members of the apparatus into one co-operative body, in impelling each organ with its appropriate delicacy and speed, and above all, in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton.
Pagina 832 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Pagina 640 - Vincent's valuable work on the " Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, containing an account of the Navigation of the Ancients from the Sea of Suez to the coast of Zanguebar,
Pagina 492 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.
Pagina 621 - Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the manufacture in England.
Pagina 489 - ... by the decision of the Court of King's Bench, in the case of...
Pagina 481 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Pagina 736 - About this time he wrote a work, entitled " A Discourse: wherein is examined, what is particularly lawfull during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government ; or how farre a man may lawfully conforme to the powers and commands of those who with various successes hold kingdoms divided with civill or forreigne warres, whether it be, 1.
Pagina 451 - I now told him to come to me at the fort twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, to teach me other phrases, which I would write down.