The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1813 - Biography |
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... observed in his speech upon the latter trial , " that the evidence had been so well distributed and opened by the attorney - general , that he had never heard such a mass of matter better con- tracted , nor made more intelligible to the ...
... observed in his speech upon the latter trial , " that the evidence had been so well distributed and opened by the attorney - general , that he had never heard such a mass of matter better con- tracted , nor made more intelligible to the ...
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... fruitful mind , should not so much labour what to speak , as to find what to leave unspoken . Rich soils are often to be weeded . Secondly , you cloy your auditory . When you would be observed , speech must be either COKE .
... fruitful mind , should not so much labour what to speak , as to find what to leave unspoken . Rich soils are often to be weeded . Secondly , you cloy your auditory . When you would be observed , speech must be either COKE .
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Alexander Chalmers. When you would be observed , speech must be either sweet or short . Thirdly , you converse with books , not men , and books specially humane ; and have no excellent choice with men , who are the best books . For a man ...
Alexander Chalmers. When you would be observed , speech must be either sweet or short . Thirdly , you converse with books , not men , and books specially humane ; and have no excellent choice with men , who are the best books . For a man ...
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... observations made at their conferences . His majesty acquiesced in the appointment of this new officer , and settled on him a salary of 300 livres . To Col- bert also the lovers of naval knowledge are obliged , for the erection of the ...
... observations made at their conferences . His majesty acquiesced in the appointment of this new officer , and settled on him a salary of 300 livres . To Col- bert also the lovers of naval knowledge are obliged , for the erection of the ...
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... observed , laying him open to the critics , did not hinder him from attaining a very mas- terly style ; so that his preaching , though popular , and adapted to mean capacities , was agreeable to men of wit and learning , and in ...
... observed , laying him open to the critics , did not hinder him from attaining a very mas- terly style ; so that his preaching , though popular , and adapted to mean capacities , was agreeable to men of wit and learning , and in ...
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Page 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 161 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Page 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Page 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Page 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
Page 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.