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Page 194
It did not , however , flatter the current opinions on the rank of Pope among poets
, and the author desisted from ... Dr . Johnson said that this was owing to his not
having been able to persuade the world to be of his opinion as to Pope .
It did not , however , flatter the current opinions on the rank of Pope among poets
, and the author desisted from ... Dr . Johnson said that this was owing to his not
having been able to persuade the world to be of his opinion as to Pope .
Page 195
That Dr . Warton advanced no novel opinions is proved from Phillips ' s Preface ;
and Phillips , there is reason to suppose , may have been indebted to his uncle
Milton for an idea of poetry so superior to what was entertained in his day .
That Dr . Warton advanced no novel opinions is proved from Phillips ' s Preface ;
and Phillips , there is reason to suppose , may have been indebted to his uncle
Milton for an idea of poetry so superior to what was entertained in his day .
Page 211
According to Whiston he was the cause of Mr . Wasse ' s embracing the Arian
sentiments , which he did with such zeal , as to omit the Athanasian creed in the
service of the church , and other passages which militated against his opinions .
According to Whiston he was the cause of Mr . Wasse ' s embracing the Arian
sentiments , which he did with such zeal , as to omit the Athanasian creed in the
service of the church , and other passages which militated against his opinions .
Page 243
This gentleman had imbibed this opinion first in 1723 , at Marseilles , and
confirmed it in 1725 , on the coast of Barbary . ... XLVII . of the Philosophical
Transactions , at a time when the learned were wavering in their opinions on this
matter .
This gentleman had imbibed this opinion first in 1723 , at Marseilles , and
confirmed it in 1725 , on the coast of Barbary . ... XLVII . of the Philosophical
Transactions , at a time when the learned were wavering in their opinions on this
matter .
Page 376
And he therefore upbraided those who afterwards relinquished them , as yielding
only to the bias of interest : too confident to suspect a possible fallacy in his
opinions , or a detection of his own misrepresentations of the Holy Scriptures .
And he therefore upbraided those who afterwards relinquished them , as yielding
only to the bias of interest : too confident to suspect a possible fallacy in his
opinions , or a detection of his own misrepresentations of the Holy Scriptures .
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Page 432 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Page 293 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 398 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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Page 436 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.
Page 20 - Lord, I am a great deal older than your Grace, " and have, I believe, heard more arguments for " Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have " lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; " and so, I hope, your Grace will.
Page 392 - Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature. This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a college living, he could never persuade himself to...
Page 169 - Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments, or sketches of a design I once had to give a history of English poetry, you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months before I comply with...
Page 262 - Table, and ordered by the King to deliver his official Opinion on the point ; stated in the most precise terms, that any such Assemblage might be dispersed by military force, without waiting for Forms, or reading the Act in Question. " Is that your Declaration of the Law, as Attorney-general ?" said the King. Wedderburn answering decidedly in the affirmative, " Then so let it be done,
Page 332 - ... praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
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| Title | The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time.. Volume 21 of The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Nichols, Son, and Bentley |
| Contributors | Alexander Chalmers, John Nichols, Nichols, Son, and Bentley |
| Publisher | J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1817 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 May 2007 |
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