The 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 to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1814 - Biography |
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... French . He is advised to complain to the prince that he cannot get paid in the exchequer , and peti- tion that his patent be removed into the haniper , but ob- serves this cannot be done because of the ordinance , ' for longe after ...
... French . He is advised to complain to the prince that he cannot get paid in the exchequer , and peti- tion that his patent be removed into the haniper , but ob- serves this cannot be done because of the ordinance , ' for longe after ...
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... French ; and an Italian transla- tion was published at Leghorn in 1761 . Hogarth had one failing in common with most people who attain wealth and eminence without the aid of liberal edu- cation . He affected to despise every kind of ...
... French ; and an Italian transla- tion was published at Leghorn in 1761 . Hogarth had one failing in common with most people who attain wealth and eminence without the aid of liberal edu- cation . He affected to despise every kind of ...
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... French . He wrote also a History of Denmark , in 3 vols . 4to , which has been consi- dered as the best that hitherto has been produced , though ' in some parts rather minute and uninteresting . Two vo- lumes of " Moral Thoughts , " and ...
... French . He wrote also a History of Denmark , in 3 vols . 4to , which has been consi- dered as the best that hitherto has been produced , though ' in some parts rather minute and uninteresting . Two vo- lumes of " Moral Thoughts , " and ...
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... French , German , and Italian languages . When about his twenty - fifth year , he conceived a passion for the stage , and his first performance was in Ireland . He had after- wards an engagement of the same kind in London , but never ...
... French , German , and Italian languages . When about his twenty - fifth year , he conceived a passion for the stage , and his first performance was in Ireland . He had after- wards an engagement of the same kind in London , but never ...
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... French " Pharmacopoeia of Brice Bauderon . " A quib- bling epigram upon his translation of Suetonius has often been retailed in jest books : " Philemon with translations does so fill us , He will not let Suetonius be Tranquillus . " He ...
... French " Pharmacopoeia of Brice Bauderon . " A quib- bling epigram upon his translation of Suetonius has often been retailed in jest books : " Philemon with translations does so fill us , He will not let Suetonius be Tranquillus . " He ...
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Page 249 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts,— but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infections of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend...
Page 140 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 249 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 421 - Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human (1733) he asserts that knowledge of God's essence and attributes can bo only " analogical
Page 306 - ... mortal and incurable. I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange, have, notwithstanding the great decline of my person; never suffered a moment's abatement of...
Page 142 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into ; nothing too hard for his understanding. This man indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.
Page 29 - A History of English Councils and Convocations, and of the Clergy's sitting in Parliament, in which is also comprehended the History of Parliaments, with an account of our ancient laws.
Page 248 - I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal of unerring wisdom. Should it please God to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious, deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty ; and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures than could be expected in the narrower circle of a retired life.
Page 247 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe, with various Papers relative to the Plague, together with further Observations on some foreign Prisons and Hospitals ; and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 342 - Gloucester's idea of the nature and character of an inspired language, as delivered in his lordship's doctrine of grace, is vindicated from all the objections of the learned author of the Dissertation.