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..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1817 - Biography |
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... thing can confirm the declaration that sir William was actuated solely by disinterested motives , it is the veneration which he professes to entertain for the con- stitution of his country . He avows himself a sincere friend to the ...
... thing can confirm the declaration that sir William was actuated solely by disinterested motives , it is the veneration which he professes to entertain for the con- stitution of his country . He avows himself a sincere friend to the ...
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... thing I had ever seen written in cyphers ) , and asked me , between jest and ear- nest , whether I could make any thing of it ; and he was surprized , when I said , upon the first view , perhaps I might , if it proved no more but a new ...
... thing I had ever seen written in cyphers ) , and asked me , between jest and ear- nest , whether I could make any thing of it ; and he was surprized , when I said , upon the first view , perhaps I might , if it proved no more but a new ...
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... thing , whe- ther it be now proper to repeat what was done above forty years ago , the thing is quite otherwise . Of those letters and papers ( whatever they were ) I never saw any one of them but in print ; nor did those papers , as I ...
... thing , whe- ther it be now proper to repeat what was done above forty years ago , the thing is quite otherwise . Of those letters and papers ( whatever they were ) I never saw any one of them but in print ; nor did those papers , as I ...
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... things , yet to engage indefinitely against all prelacy , they would not agree . After many days debate on this point ( as I understood from those who were then present ) some of the parliament , who then pressed it , suggested this ex ...
... things , yet to engage indefinitely against all prelacy , they would not agree . After many days debate on this point ( as I understood from those who were then present ) some of the parliament , who then pressed it , suggested this ex ...
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... thing of that method , and conceived hopes of attaining by it some assistance in the problem concerning the quadrature of the circle . He accordingly spent a very considerable time in studying it , but found some insuperable ...
... thing of that method , and conceived hopes of attaining by it some assistance in the problem concerning the quadrature of the circle . He accordingly spent a very considerable time in studying it , but found some insuperable ...
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Page 388 - 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 109 - Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.
Page 322 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt: His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways...
Page 382 - 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 278 - Whitlocked, with his usual candour, never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, "with more •wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, •with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and" -with a better grace in all his -words and actions, than did this great and excellent person ; and b» moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
Page 14 - My 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 58 - In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.