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 446
... lived in the third century before our æra , during the reigns of Ptolemy Philopator and Ptolemy Epiphanes . He studied philology and criticism , as those sciences were then studied , under several eminent teachers , of whom Eratosthenes ...
... lived in the third century before our æra , during the reigns of Ptolemy Philopator and Ptolemy Epiphanes . He studied philology and criticism , as those sciences were then studied , under several eminent teachers , of whom Eratosthenes ...
Pagina 447
... lived within one portion or another of the age of Demosthenes . Ruhn- ken was the first to distinguish the three Aris- tophons exactly from each other ; but in several passages of ancient writers , especially the orators , it is still ...
... lived within one portion or another of the age of Demosthenes . Ruhn- ken was the first to distinguish the three Aris- tophons exactly from each other ; but in several passages of ancient writers , especially the orators , it is still ...
Pagina 471
... lived , except the corroboration of Lucian , who calls him the parasite of Neleus , who lived a little after Aristotle . He had previously been the hearer of Lamprus of Erythræ and Xenophilus the Pythagorean ; but his reputation among ...
... lived , except the corroboration of Lucian , who calls him the parasite of Neleus , who lived a little after Aristotle . He had previously been the hearer of Lamprus of Erythræ and Xenophilus the Pythagorean ; but his reputation among ...
Pagina 472
... lived about 150 years before tions derived from arithmetic , rejected con- Hipparchus , that is , B.C. 300-250 , or ... lived , no- thing is known beyond what Strabo says , that he lived at a much later time than One- sicritus and others ...
... lived about 150 years before tions derived from arithmetic , rejected con- Hipparchus , that is , B.C. 300-250 , or ... lived , no- thing is known beyond what Strabo says , that he lived at a much later time than One- sicritus and others ...
Pagina 492
... lived entirely on her own resources for several years , and was never allowed more than 30l . a year after Ark- wright had realized a large fortune . This information he professes to have received from Arkwright's niece ; but the latter ...
... lived entirely on her own resources for several years , and was never allowed more than 30l . a year after Ark- wright had realized a large fortune . This information he professes to have received from Arkwright's niece ; but the latter ...
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Populaire passages
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.