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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... honour and worship due to God ; prayer , thanksgivings , oblations , & c . yet he advances principles , which evidently tend to subvert all religion . The account he gives of it is this , that " from the fear of power invisible ...
... honour and worship due to God ; prayer , thanksgivings , oblations , & c . yet he advances principles , which evidently tend to subvert all religion . The account he gives of it is this , that " from the fear of power invisible ...
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... honour to himself , and remarkable advantage to his pupils . He had a lively imagination , a very ready in- vention , a talent for composition and correctness in the cos- His manner of painting was clean and ueat , and he was thoroughly ...
... honour to himself , and remarkable advantage to his pupils . He had a lively imagination , a very ready in- vention , a talent for composition and correctness in the cos- His manner of painting was clean and ueat , and he was thoroughly ...
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... honoured by Frederic William , elector of Branden- burg , with the appointments of physician to his own per- son , and to the whole principality of Minden . Yet he quitted that city in 1688 , in consequence of an invitation to settle at ...
... honoured by Frederic William , elector of Branden- burg , with the appointments of physician to his own per- son , and to the whole principality of Minden . Yet he quitted that city in 1688 , in consequence of an invitation to settle at ...
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... honour of being consulted by persons of the highest rank . He was called upon to visit many of the German courts in his ca- pacity of physician , and received honours from several princes ; from whom some say that he received ample re ...
... honour of being consulted by persons of the highest rank . He was called upon to visit many of the German courts in his ca- pacity of physician , and received honours from several princes ; from whom some say that he received ample re ...
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... honour to the artist's abilities ; but the likeness was rigidly observed , without even the necessary attention to compliment or flattery . The peer , disgusted at this counterpart of his dear self , never once thought of paying for a ...
... honour to the artist's abilities ; but the likeness was rigidly observed , without even the necessary attention to compliment or flattery . The peer , disgusted at this counterpart of his dear self , never once thought of paying for a ...
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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.