A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 - Biography |
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... should make all conceivable progrefs under the latter . About that time car- dinal Beffarion came to Vienna , to negotiate fome affairs for the pope ; who , being a lover of aftronomy , had begun to make a Latin verfion of Ptolemy's ...
... should make all conceivable progrefs under the latter . About that time car- dinal Beffarion came to Vienna , to negotiate fome affairs for the pope ; who , being a lover of aftronomy , had begun to make a Latin verfion of Ptolemy's ...
Page 98
... should have laid afide all thoughts of favour- ing the world with more of your works , it will be much dif- appointed , and no one in it more than your very - much obliged humble fervant , ANSON . " Robins was alfo preparing an enlarged ...
... should have laid afide all thoughts of favour- ing the world with more of your works , it will be much dif- appointed , and no one in it more than your very - much obliged humble fervant , ANSON . " Robins was alfo preparing an enlarged ...
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... should chufe a rector of more inoderation : but that was hardly poffible ; for , nothing could be more benign , more pacific , more fweet , more moderate , than Rollin's tem- per . He fhewed , it must be owned , fome zeal for the cause ...
... should chufe a rector of more inoderation : but that was hardly poffible ; for , nothing could be more benign , more pacific , more fweet , more moderate , than Rollin's tem- per . He fhewed , it must be owned , fome zeal for the cause ...
Page 131
... should be a watch - maker , an attorney , or a minifter . To the last he was moft inclined , but that the fmall remains of his mother's fortune would not admit . In the mean time he learned to draw , for which he had a tafte , and read ...
... should be a watch - maker , an attorney , or a minifter . To the last he was moft inclined , but that the fmall remains of his mother's fortune would not admit . In the mean time he learned to draw , for which he had a tafte , and read ...
Page 140
... should have told them as frankly , and fuch was my defign - But I must top here . Time may undraw the curtain . If my memoir reaches pofterity , one day or other it will perhaps learn what I had to fay . Then it will know why I am ...
... should have told them as frankly , and fuch was my defign - But I must top here . Time may undraw the curtain . If my memoir reaches pofterity , one day or other it will perhaps learn what I had to fay . Then it will know why I am ...
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Page 126 - Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than good, With manners generous as his noble blood ; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own.
Page 330 - ... they did not doubt of Mr. Selden's affection to the king, but withal they knew him so well, that they concluded he would absolutely refuse the place, if it were offered to him. He was in years, and of a tender constitution ; he had for many years enjoyed his ease, which he loved ; was rich ; and would not have made a journey to York, or have lain out of his own bed, for any preferment ; which he had never affected.
Page 332 - ... his humanity, courtesy, and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity, and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
Page 69 - Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness.
Page 332 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
Page 332 - Hyde was wont to say that he valued himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Selden's acquaintance from the time he was very young...
Page 192 - Marlborough was raised to the head of the army, and indeed of the confederacy, where he, a new, a private man, a subject, acquired by merit and by management a more deciding influence, than high birth, confirmed authority, and even the crown of Great Britain, had given to King William.
Page 68 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Page 365 - Fierce for the liberties of wit, and bold, We ftill defy'd the Romans, as of old. Yet fome there were, among the founder few Of thofe who lefs prefum'd, and better knew, 71* Who durft aflert the jufter ancient caufe, And here reftor'd Wit's fundamental laws. Such was the Mufe, whofe rules and praftice tell| " Nature's chief Mafter-piece is writing well.
Page 196 - Gualtier, who was -an emissary of France. Fifthly, that he disclosed to the French the manner how Tournay in Flanders might be gained by them. And lastly, that he advised and promoted the yielding up Spain and the West Indies to the Duke of Anjou, then an enemy to her majesty.