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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... prince of Wales ( afterwards George II . ) , he was directed in 1721 to assist at the experiment of the newly proposed practice of inoculation , performed on some criminals ; and his report of it was so favourable that it contributed ...
... prince of Wales ( afterwards George II . ) , he was directed in 1721 to assist at the experiment of the newly proposed practice of inoculation , performed on some criminals ; and his report of it was so favourable that it contributed ...
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... Proverbios de Inigo Lopez de Mendoza , con su glosa , maxims of morality in verse , written by desire of Juan II . for the instruction of his son prince Henrique . 1 who entertained a personal regard for him , and ΜΕΝ ΜΕΝ ( 37 )
... Proverbios de Inigo Lopez de Mendoza , con su glosa , maxims of morality in verse , written by desire of Juan II . for the instruction of his son prince Henrique . 1 who entertained a personal regard for him , and ΜΕΝ ΜΕΝ ( 37 )
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... prince , he excited the envy of some of his countrymen , who accused him of a design to betray their city into the hands of Antigonus . To escape the hazards arising from the prejudice which this accusation created against him ...
... prince , he excited the envy of some of his countrymen , who accused him of a design to betray their city into the hands of Antigonus . To escape the hazards arising from the prejudice which this accusation created against him ...
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... prince to the canoni- sation of a saint . His invention in these matters was inexhaustible ; and he enriched all his designs with such an abundance of de- vices and inscriptions as amply proved the ex-- tent of his reading . He was ...
... prince to the canoni- sation of a saint . His invention in these matters was inexhaustible ; and he enriched all his designs with such an abundance of de- vices and inscriptions as amply proved the ex-- tent of his reading . He was ...
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... prince and the rank of major - ge- neral . When Peter undertook his travels for improvement , he chose Mentchikof for his companion ; and in 1706 he was created a prince of the German empire . He frequently was employed , on occasions ...
... prince and the rank of major - ge- neral . When Peter undertook his travels for improvement , he chose Mentchikof for his companion ; and in 1706 he was created a prince of the German empire . He frequently was employed , on occasions ...
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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.