The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit: Containing Complete and Impartial Accounts of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, But More Particularly of Those who Have Signalized Themselves in America. In Four Volumes. Embellished with a Number of Portraits of the Most Distinguished Characters, Engraved from Original Drawings, Том 1Johnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1805 |
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... will be sufficiently large to comprize a sketch of the most brilliant traits in each particular character , without being so minute and verbose , as to disgust by its prolixity . No work of this kind , on a general plan PREFACE .
... will be sufficiently large to comprize a sketch of the most brilliant traits in each particular character , without being so minute and verbose , as to disgust by its prolixity . No work of this kind , on a general plan PREFACE .
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... particular acts , by which they had been more especially distinguished . Had this mode been follow- ed , the catalogue of remarkable personages would have undoubtedly been more complete ; but to the great bulk of our patrons , the work ...
... particular acts , by which they had been more especially distinguished . Had this mode been follow- ed , the catalogue of remarkable personages would have undoubtedly been more complete ; but to the great bulk of our patrons , the work ...
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... particular . Upon the whole , the editor , unwilling to trespass on the time or patience of his reader by prefatory remarks , submits his work such as it is , with great deference to the world , by no means regardless of public fame ...
... particular . Upon the whole , the editor , unwilling to trespass on the time or patience of his reader by prefatory remarks , submits his work such as it is , with great deference to the world , by no means regardless of public fame ...
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... particular profes- sion . Sir Joshua introduced a new and superior style of portrait - painting . It is equally true that Mr. Ad- am produced a total change in the architecture of his country ; and his fertile genius in elegant ornament ...
... particular profes- sion . Sir Joshua introduced a new and superior style of portrait - painting . It is equally true that Mr. Ad- am produced a total change in the architecture of his country ; and his fertile genius in elegant ornament ...
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... particular occasion ; but having been very satirical upon the pride , ignorance , hypo- crisy , and avarice of those then in power , he was compelled to make a recantation , and to ask pardon on his knees . Soon after he left Oxford ...
... particular occasion ; but having been very satirical upon the pride , ignorance , hypo- crisy , and avarice of those then in power , he was compelled to make a recantation , and to ask pardon on his knees . Soon after he left Oxford ...
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Сторінка 381 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Сторінка 381 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Сторінка 350 - It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that moment — standing in that spot which had baffled the genius, industry and inquiry of both ancients and moderns, for the course of near three thousand years. Kings had attempted...
Сторінка 202 - Yes, said he, with firmness, I think so. Look at yourself, I replied, and consider your hands and fingers, your legs and feet, and other limbs ; are they not regular in their appearance, and useful to you ? He said, they were. Came you then hither, said I, by chance ? No, he answered, that cannot be ; something must have made me.
Сторінка 170 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
Сторінка 158 - That he shall for ever be incapable of any office, place, or employment in the State or Commonwealth. 4. That he shall never sit in Parliament, nor come within the verge of the Court.
Сторінка 171 - ... knowest what it is to be banished thy native country; to be overruled as well as to rule and sit upon the throne; and, being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man. If, after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget Him who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation.
Сторінка 459 - But Las Casas, from the inconsistency natural to men who hurry with headlong impetuosity towards a favourite point, was incapable of making this distinction. While he contended earnestly for the liberty of the people born in one quarter of the globe, he laboured to enslave the inhabitants of another region ; and in the warmth of his zeal to save the Americans from the yoke, pronounced it to be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans.
Сторінка 350 - Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumph.
Сторінка 93 - It is said, he possessed a pretty taste for the fine arts, and had himself attained some proficiency in poetry, music, and painting. His knowledge appeared without ostentation, and embellished by a diffidence that rarely accompanies so many talents and accomplishments, which left you to suppose more than appeared. " His sentiments were elevated, and inspired esteem ; — they had a softness that conciliated affection. His elocution was handsome ; his address easy, polite, and insinuating.