General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volume 7G. G. and J. Robinson, 1808 |
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... manner , and associating with it the character of a friend and patron of learning , so he publicly asserted its dignity in early times , in his " Harveian Oration " pronounced before the college in 1723 . In this piece he considered its ...
... manner , and associating with it the character of a friend and patron of learning , so he publicly asserted its dignity in early times , in his " Harveian Oration " pronounced before the college in 1723 . In this piece he considered its ...
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... manner . The fragments of Menan- der have been several times published . The most complete edition is that of Le ... manners . This last topic he treated on expressly in his " Meurs et Usages des Grecs , " 1743 , 12mo . , a work which ...
... manner . The fragments of Menan- der have been several times published . The most complete edition is that of Le ... manners . This last topic he treated on expressly in his " Meurs et Usages des Grecs , " 1743 , 12mo . , a work which ...
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... manner . Resignation and docility tempered his infirmities . He was his own . placid in pain ; but whenever he protracted his studies to an unusual hour , or when deeply en- gaged in a profound discussion , a strong faint- ing fit was ...
... manner . Resignation and docility tempered his infirmities . He was his own . placid in pain ; but whenever he protracted his studies to an unusual hour , or when deeply en- gaged in a profound discussion , a strong faint- ing fit was ...
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... manner in which they were supported . Upon this , at their request , the keeper of one of the public prisons was sent for , who gave evidence , that every night these youths went among the criminals , and by grinding with them , earned ...
... manner in which they were supported . Upon this , at their request , the keeper of one of the public prisons was sent for , who gave evidence , that every night these youths went among the criminals , and by grinding with them , earned ...
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... manner of Corregio's famous on very notte . This piece was so much valued , that a plate of glass of uncommon ... manners , and strict regard to veracity . He had little know- ledge of the world , and seemed under con- straint in company ...
... manner of Corregio's famous on very notte . This piece was so much valued , that a plate of glass of uncommon ... manners , and strict regard to veracity . He had little know- ledge of the world , and seemed under con- straint in company ...
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Page 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 107 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Page 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
Page 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 485 - FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Page 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
Page 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.
Page 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.