General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Том 7G. G. and J. Robinson, 1808 |
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... celebrated prelate , who was a consummate judge and patron of learning , was so well pleased with it , that he made the author an offer of the situa- tion of his domestic chaplain ; which Mr. Mede gratefully declined , esteeming the ...
... celebrated prelate , who was a consummate judge and patron of learning , was so well pleased with it , that he made the author an offer of the situa- tion of his domestic chaplain ; which Mr. Mede gratefully declined , esteeming the ...
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... celebrated John Dury and others ; and though he was sensible that it had great difficulties to surmount , yet he thought it feasible . He was not so extravagant as to imagine , that it would " ever be brought to pass by a full decision ...
... celebrated John Dury and others ; and though he was sensible that it had great difficulties to surmount , yet he thought it feasible . He was not so extravagant as to imagine , that it would " ever be brought to pass by a full decision ...
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... celebrated Spanish mathematician in the sixteenth century , con- cerning whose personal history we have no other information than that he was a native of Seville , and an intimate acquaintance of the learned John Vas us during his ...
... celebrated Spanish mathematician in the sixteenth century , con- cerning whose personal history we have no other information than that he was a native of Seville , and an intimate acquaintance of the learned John Vas us during his ...
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... celebrated in his poems by the unfortunately chosen name of Laverna , the Roman goddess of thieving , which gave occasion to a severe epigram , turning on the thought , that he had done well in adopting Laverna as the object of his vows ...
... celebrated in his poems by the unfortunately chosen name of Laverna , the Roman goddess of thieving , which gave occasion to a severe epigram , turning on the thought , that he had done well in adopting Laverna as the object of his vows ...
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... celebrated Jewish philosopher and elegant writer in the eighteenth century , was born at Dessau in Anhalt , a principality in the circle of Saxony , in the year 1729. His earliest instructions he received from his father , who was a ...
... celebrated Jewish philosopher and elegant writer in the eighteenth century , was born at Dessau in Anhalt , a principality in the circle of Saxony , in the year 1729. His earliest instructions he received from his father , who was a ...
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Сторінка 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Сторінка 107 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Сторінка 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Сторінка 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Сторінка 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
Сторінка 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Сторінка 485 - FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Сторінка 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
Сторінка 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.
Сторінка 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.