The General Biographical Dictionary, 第 18 巻Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... WRITINGS OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN EVERY NATION ;, PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH ; FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME . A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. VOL . XVIII . LONDON ...
... WRITINGS OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN EVERY NATION ;, PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH ; FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME . A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. VOL . XVIII . LONDON ...
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... writings , yet he always retained a sense of the services he had done him , shewed him various marks of his favour after he was restored to his dominions , and , as some say , had his picture hanging in his closet . This year also was ...
... writings , yet he always retained a sense of the services he had done him , shewed him various marks of his favour after he was restored to his dominions , and , as some say , had his picture hanging in his closet . This year also was ...
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... writings , caused them to be depo- sited , the former among his curiosities , the latter in his library at Florence . Similar visits he received from several foreign ambassadors , and other strangers of distinction ; who HOBBES . 9.
... writings , caused them to be depo- sited , the former among his curiosities , the latter in his library at Florence . Similar visits he received from several foreign ambassadors , and other strangers of distinction ; who HOBBES . 9.
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... writings had made so much noise all over Europe . In 1672 , he wrote his own Life in Latin verse , when , as he observes , he had completed his eighty - fourth year : and , in 1674 , he published in English verse four books of Homer's ...
... writings had made so much noise all over Europe . In 1672 , he wrote his own Life in Latin verse , when , as he observes , he had completed his eighty - fourth year : and , in 1674 , he published in English verse four books of Homer's ...
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... writings . More philosophical , political , says Warburton , or any thing rather than historical , yet full of shrewd observations . In October following , he was afflicted with a suppression of urine ; and his physician plainly told ...
... writings . More philosophical , political , says Warburton , or any thing rather than historical , yet full of shrewd observations . In October following , he was afflicted with a suppression of urine ; and his physician plainly told ...
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249 ページ - He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or...
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.
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
457 ページ - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
173 ページ - 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 him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done.
306 ページ - I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange...
515 ページ - Jewish Antiquities, or a Course of Lectures on the Three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron. To which is annexed a Dissertation on the Hebrew Language.
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.
220 ページ - The nation as well as the university," says Bishop Burnet, "looked on all these proceedings with just indignation. It was thought an open piece of robbery and burglary when men, authorized by no legal commission, came and forcibly turned men out of their possession and freehold.