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, Том 28Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... genius for far other pur- suits , which led him afterwards to the highest rank in the mathematical and philosophical sciences . Young Simpson very soon gave indications of his turn for study in general , by eagerly reading all books he ...
... genius for far other pur- suits , which led him afterwards to the highest rank in the mathematical and philosophical sciences . Young Simpson very soon gave indications of his turn for study in general , by eagerly reading all books he ...
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... genius of his new acquaintance . The pedlar , intending a journey to Bristol fai , left in the hands of young Simpson an old edition of Cocker's Arithmetic , to which was sub- joined a short Appendix on Algebra , and a book upon ...
... genius of his new acquaintance . The pedlar , intending a journey to Bristol fai , left in the hands of young Simpson an old edition of Cocker's Arithmetic , to which was sub- joined a short Appendix on Algebra , and a book upon ...
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... genius , and a retentive me- mory and these powers , being excited by an ardent curio- sity , produced a singular capacity for investigating the truths of mathematical science . By such talents , with a correct taste , formed by the ...
... genius , and a retentive me- mory and these powers , being excited by an ardent curio- sity , produced a singular capacity for investigating the truths of mathematical science . By such talents , with a correct taste , formed by the ...
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... genius , and during the reign of Henry VII . he had the enviable distinction of being almost the only pro- . fessed poet of the age . Henry Algernon Percy , fifth earl of Northumberland , one of the very few patrons of learned men and ...
... genius , and during the reign of Henry VII . he had the enviable distinction of being almost the only pro- . fessed poet of the age . Henry Algernon Percy , fifth earl of Northumberland , one of the very few patrons of learned men and ...
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... genius seems better suited to low burlesque , than to liberal and manly satire . It is supposed by Caxton , that he improved our language ; but he sometimes affects obscurity , and some- times adopts the most familiar phraseology of the ...
... genius seems better suited to low burlesque , than to liberal and manly satire . It is supposed by Caxton , that he improved our language ; but he sometimes affects obscurity , and some- times adopts the most familiar phraseology of the ...
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