The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 21J. Nichols, 1815 |
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... board of longitude for his inventions . He could read Latin and French with ease ; but wrote the former ill ; had studied the English history , and could quote whole passages from the Monkish writers verbatim . was appointed by the board ...
... board of longitude for his inventions . He could read Latin and French with ease ; but wrote the former ill ; had studied the English history , and could quote whole passages from the Monkish writers verbatim . was appointed by the board ...
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... board of longitude . He sailed for Barbadoes for the following pur- poses to find the longitude of that island by astronomical observations ; to determine the rate of going of Mr. Har- rison's new time - keeper ; and to try Mr. Irwin's ...
... board of longitude . He sailed for Barbadoes for the following pur- poses to find the longitude of that island by astronomical observations ; to determine the rate of going of Mr. Har- rison's new time - keeper ; and to try Mr. Irwin's ...
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... longitude ; and the various other publications issued by that board during his time were also printed under his inspection , and are too numerous to be here stated . Another important and laborious duty that devolved on him in ...
... longitude ; and the various other publications issued by that board during his time were also printed under his inspection , and are too numerous to be here stated . Another important and laborious duty that devolved on him in ...
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... board of longitude to the astronomer royal , by whom scientific plans were examined , and the rates of chronometers ascertained . Thus by his office he was constituted arbiter of the fame and fortune of a great number of anxious ...
... board of longitude to the astronomer royal , by whom scientific plans were examined , and the rates of chronometers ascertained . Thus by his office he was constituted arbiter of the fame and fortune of a great number of anxious ...
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... Board of longitude , with the pre- mium of three thousand pounds , which sum was paid to his widow after his death . These tables and precepts were published by the Board of longitude in 1770. Besides these , he published , t . " A new ...
... Board of longitude , with the pre- mium of three thousand pounds , which sum was paid to his widow after his death . These tables and precepts were published by the Board of longitude in 1770. Besides these , he published , t . " A new ...
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Page 9 - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
Page 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Page 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Page 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Page 28 - Thus he continued giving his dying benediction to all around him. On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening; and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morning, August 22, when between seven and eight o'clock he expired, almost without a groan.
Page 227 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Page 394 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 453 - Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late rev. Thomas Baker, BD of St. John's-college, from the papers of Dr. Zachary Grey, with a Catalogue of his MS Collections," Cambridge, 8vo; and in 1790 "A Catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges of the university of Cambridge,
Page 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.
Page 195 - I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind.