Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen: From the Earliest Times to the Present Period, Arranged in Chronological Order, and Embodying a History of Ireland in the Lives of Irishmen, Том 5,Частина 1James Wills MacGregor, Polson, 1846 |
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... entered as a pensioner in the University of Dublin , in his fifteenth year , under the tuition of Dr Hall ; and in 1707 , when about twenty - three , he obtained a fellowship . The same year he published an essay on mathematical science ...
... entered as a pensioner in the University of Dublin , in his fifteenth year , under the tuition of Dr Hall ; and in 1707 , when about twenty - three , he obtained a fellowship . The same year he published an essay on mathematical science ...
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... entered his apartment in ghostly array , and walked round , muttering some form of prayer or exorcism , without seeming to notice his presence in any way , and then walked out again . Berkeley's first apprehensions suggested some ...
... entered his apartment in ghostly array , and walked round , muttering some form of prayer or exorcism , without seeming to notice his presence in any way , and then walked out again . Berkeley's first apprehensions suggested some ...
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... entered , with all the interest of a philosopher , and all the impetuosity of a Frenchman , into a discussion upon it . Berkeley was soon heated with controversial ardour ; and they who best know the zeal of metaphysical disputation ...
... entered , with all the interest of a philosopher , and all the impetuosity of a Frenchman , into a discussion upon it . Berkeley was soon heated with controversial ardour ; and they who best know the zeal of metaphysical disputation ...
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... entered with zeal into the scheme , and consented to exchange their hard - won prospects of independence for £ 40 a - year , and settlements in the Sum- mer Isles . To raise funds for his project , Berkeley sent a proposal to the king ...
... entered with zeal into the scheme , and consented to exchange their hard - won prospects of independence for £ 40 a - year , and settlements in the Sum- mer Isles . To raise funds for his project , Berkeley sent a proposal to the king ...
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... entered into , by the necessary payments . But in this lay an obstacle not to be surmounted by industry , talent , and enthusiasm . Walpole had , from the first , been unfavourably inclined to the project ; and it was probably by the ...
... entered into , by the necessary payments . But in this lay an obstacle not to be surmounted by industry , talent , and enthusiasm . Walpole had , from the first , been unfavourably inclined to the project ; and it was probably by the ...
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Сторінка 9 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Сторінка 9 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Сторінка 46 - New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written .... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq* experiment xxxvi.
Сторінка 10 - Indian scholars and missionaries ; where he most exorbitantly proposes a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your Excellency's disposal. I discouraged him, by the coldness of Courts and Ministers, who will interpret all this as impossible, and a vision, but nothing will do...
Сторінка 12 - If you put this question to me," says Sir Robert, "as a minister, I must and can assure you, that the money shall most undoubtedly be paid as soon as suits with public convenience: but if you ask me as a friend, whether Dean Berkeley should continue in America, expecting the payment of 20,OOOZ., I advise him by all means to return home to Europe, and to give up his present expectations.
Сторінка 238 - Ireland have been shed; yes, my good lord, I see you do not forget them; I see their sacred forms passing in sad review before your memory; I see your pained and softened fancy recalling those happy meetings...
Сторінка 192 - Majesty that it is not by temporary expedients, but by a free trade alone, that this nation is now to be saved from impending ruin.
Сторінка 93 - We have old Mr. Southern at a Gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old,* and has almost wholly lost his memory ; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Сторінка 9 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Сторінка 181 - Majesty to repress that daring spirit of disobedience, and to enforce a due submission to the laws; always considering that it is one of our most essential duties to maintain inviolate the supreme authority of the legislature of Great Britain over every part of the dominions of your Majesty's crown.