General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Tom 10G. G. and J. Robinson, 1815 |
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... death of friends and other circumstances to quit it , and undertake the office of theological tutor and superintendant at a dissenting aca- demy in Manchester . Advancing years ren- dered this a too onerous task for him , and he ...
... death of friends and other circumstances to quit it , and undertake the office of theological tutor and superintendant at a dissenting aca- demy in Manchester . Advancing years ren- dered this a too onerous task for him , and he ...
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... death of Langbaine , Dr. Wallis was chosen to succeed him as Custos Archivorum to the uni- versity ; and soon after , he received a letter from Sir Kenelm Digby containing two prize- questions proposed by Pascal , for squaring and ...
... death of Langbaine , Dr. Wallis was chosen to succeed him as Custos Archivorum to the uni- versity ; and soon after , he received a letter from Sir Kenelm Digby containing two prize- questions proposed by Pascal , for squaring and ...
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... death of his eldest surviving brother rendering him heir to the family - estate in 1698 , he was taken from college by his father , and initiated into country life , with the jovial conviviality that usually at that time accompanied it ...
... death of his eldest surviving brother rendering him heir to the family - estate in 1698 , he was taken from college by his father , and initiated into country life , with the jovial conviviality that usually at that time accompanied it ...
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... death of his nephew , to the title of Earl of Orford . This elevation seems to have given him more trouble than satisfaction , and made no alteration in his manner of living and ha- bitual pursuits . He continued to amuse him- self with ...
... death of his nephew , to the title of Earl of Orford . This elevation seems to have given him more trouble than satisfaction , and made no alteration in his manner of living and ha- bitual pursuits . He continued to amuse him- self with ...
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... death of Regiomontanus , he purchased from his heirs all his papers and instruments . The good of astronomy required that the writings of this eminent man should have been communicated to the learned ; and Wal- ther might have done this ...
... death of Regiomontanus , he purchased from his heirs all his papers and instruments . The good of astronomy required that the writings of this eminent man should have been communicated to the learned ; and Wal- ther might have done this ...
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Strona 64 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Strona 33 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, " oderint dum metuant ; " he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
Strona 64 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
Strona 77 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
Strona 31 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
Strona 148 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Strona 148 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Strona 98 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Strona 265 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.
Strona 65 - Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough...