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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... volumes , folio . This being re- ceived by the learned with great avidity , he published , a few years after , a Supplement ; which was also rapidly sold off . In 1698 , some of the principal booksellers at Leyden , encouraged by this ...
... volumes , folio . This being re- ceived by the learned with great avidity , he published , a few years after , a Supplement ; which was also rapidly sold off . In 1698 , some of the principal booksellers at Leyden , encouraged by this ...
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... volumes of " Consultations , " in which he distributed into three centuries , " the most remarkable cases which had curred to him ; and also " Observationum Physico - Che- micarum Libri tres , " 1722. In 1727 he attended the prince of ...
... volumes of " Consultations , " in which he distributed into three centuries , " the most remarkable cases which had curred to him ; and also " Observationum Physico - Che- micarum Libri tres , " 1722. In 1727 he attended the prince of ...
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... volumes folio , which was also reprinted in 1753-4 . The writings of Hoffmann contain a great mass of practical matter of considerable value , partly compiled from preceding writers , and partly the result of his own observation ; but ...
... volumes folio , which was also reprinted in 1753-4 . The writings of Hoffmann contain a great mass of practical matter of considerable value , partly compiled from preceding writers , and partly the result of his own observation ; but ...
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... volume of Latin exercises , for the use of his own school , under the title of " Disser- ་ ་ tationes Grammaticales ; sive Examen Octo PartiumOrationis , interrogatorium & responsorium , Anglo - Latinum , " 8vo , The weather being hot ...
... volume of Latin exercises , for the use of his own school , under the title of " Disser- ་ ་ tationes Grammaticales ; sive Examen Octo PartiumOrationis , interrogatorium & responsorium , Anglo - Latinum , " 8vo , The weather being hot ...
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... volumes , 12mo , 1725 ; seventeen cuts for a duodecimo edition of Hudibras ( with Butler's head ) , in 1726 ; two for Perseus and Andromeda , in 1730 ; two for Milton [ the date uncertain ] ; and a variety of others between 1726 and ...
... volumes , 12mo , 1725 ; seventeen cuts for a duodecimo edition of Hudibras ( with Butler's head ) , in 1726 ; two for Perseus and Andromeda , in 1730 ; two for Milton [ the date uncertain ] ; and a variety of others between 1726 and ...
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304 ページ - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
421 ページ - Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human (1733) he asserts that knowledge of God's essence and attributes can bo only " analogical
249 ページ - ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
249 ページ - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking, that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to...
29 ページ - A History of English Councils and Convocations, and of the Clergy's sitting in Parliament, in which is also comprehended the History of Parliaments, with an account of our ancient laws.
249 ページ - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
173 ページ - ... writing it, he would not fear the loss of his labour. The employment detached him from the bustle and hurry of life, the din of politics, and the noise of folly: vanity and vexation flew away for a season, care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose, fresh as the morning to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave...
247 ページ - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
248 ページ - I am not insensible,' he says, ' of the dangers that must attend such a journey. Trusting, however, in the protection of that kind Providence which has hitherto preserved me, I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal of unerring Wisdom. Should it please God to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious, deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty, and to a sincere desire of being...
523 ページ - He was the man, who bore his part in all societies with the most even temper and undisturbed hilarity of all the good companions, whom I ever knew. He came into your house at the very moment you had put upon your card ; he dressed himself to do your party honour in all the colours of the jay ; his lace indeed had long since lost its lustre, but his coat had faithfully retained its cut since the .days when gentlemen wore embroidered figured velvets...