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], 1814 |
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... style equally easy and elegant , with great precision , attracted the attention of a numerous school . In 1784 , on the death of Macquer , he obtained the professorship of chemistry in the Royal Gardens , and the year following he was ...
... style equally easy and elegant , with great precision , attracted the attention of a numerous school . In 1784 , on the death of Macquer , he obtained the professorship of chemistry in the Royal Gardens , and the year following he was ...
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... styles him an eminent scholar of his time ; and Lloyd re- presents him as a fine preacher , but adds , that " his in- clination to politics brake through all the ignoble restraints of pedantique studies , to an eminency , more by ...
... styles him an eminent scholar of his time ; and Lloyd re- presents him as a fine preacher , but adds , that " his in- clination to politics brake through all the ignoble restraints of pedantique studies , to an eminency , more by ...
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... style several Latin comedies , the subjects of which were taken from the scriptures . We have a comedy of his , entitled , " De Christo Triumphante , " printed in 1551 , and at Basil in 1556 , 8vo ; which was translated into English by ...
... style several Latin comedies , the subjects of which were taken from the scriptures . We have a comedy of his , entitled , " De Christo Triumphante , " printed in 1551 , and at Basil in 1556 , 8vo ; which was translated into English by ...
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... style of this portion of it , the whole island , and perhaps all Europe , could not have exhibited a gothic structure equal to it * . " ** His last appearance in parliament was in 1523 ; he had then been nearly five years deprived of ...
... style of this portion of it , the whole island , and perhaps all Europe , could not have exhibited a gothic structure equal to it * . " ** His last appearance in parliament was in 1523 ; he had then been nearly five years deprived of ...
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... style of this letter either affords a proof of Fox's meek and con- ciliatory temper , or suggests a doubt whether our histo- rians have not too implicitly followed each other in assert- ing that Wolsey's ingratitude was the principal ...
... style of this letter either affords a proof of Fox's meek and con- ciliatory temper , or suggests a doubt whether our histo- rians have not too implicitly followed each other in assert- ing that Wolsey's ingratitude was the principal ...
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Сторінка 346 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Сторінка 457 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Сторінка 444 - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.
Сторінка 448 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Сторінка 89 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Сторінка 170 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Сторінка 453 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
Сторінка 443 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Сторінка 513 - I acknowledge you are fitter to be the bishop of Durham than I am to be parson of this church of yours. I ask forgiveness for past injuries. Forgive me, father. I know you have enemies, but while I live bishop of Durham, be secure, none of them shall cause you any farther trouble.
Сторінка 353 - O that I had never known what a court was! Dear Pope, what a barren soil (to me so) have I been striving to produce something out of! Why did I not take your advice before my writing fables for the duke, not to write them? Or rather, to write them for some young nobleman? It is my very hard fate, I must get nothing, write for them or against them.