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 ...W. Strahan, 1784 - Biography |
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Page 8
... seems , by many at that time , but furely very rafhly , that the Mofaic rites and ftatutes had no foundation in reafon , but were the effects of mere will , and ordained by God upon a principle purely arbitrary . Against thefe ...
... seems , by many at that time , but furely very rafhly , that the Mofaic rites and ftatutes had no foundation in reafon , but were the effects of mere will , and ordained by God upon a principle purely arbitrary . Against thefe ...
Page 81
... seems , in general , as if Travefties were not re- lished , except by the loweft buffoons . 3. Le Spectateur " François , " 2 vols . 12mo . 4. Le Philofophe Indigent , " 12mo . 5. " Vie de Marianne , " 2 vols . 12mo ; one of the best ...
... seems , in general , as if Travefties were not re- lished , except by the loweft buffoons . 3. Le Spectateur " François , " 2 vols . 12mo . 4. Le Philofophe Indigent , " 12mo . 5. " Vie de Marianne , " 2 vols . 12mo ; one of the best ...
Page 106
... seems to have poffeffed him from his earliest to his latest days . He dated all the fcraps of paper on which he made his church notes , & c . Some of thefe begin as early as 1721 , and end but the autumn before his death , when he still ...
... seems to have poffeffed him from his earliest to his latest days . He dated all the fcraps of paper on which he made his church notes , & c . Some of thefe begin as early as 1721 , and end but the autumn before his death , when he still ...
Page 120
... seems unquestionable ; and it is imputed to this turn of mind , i that he admired Lucretius fo much . He gave a new edition of his poem , which is feverely lafhed in " Jofeph Scaliger's " notes upon Catullus : " and he endeavoured to ...
... seems unquestionable ; and it is imputed to this turn of mind , i that he admired Lucretius fo much . He gave a new edition of his poem , which is feverely lafhed in " Jofeph Scaliger's " notes upon Catullus : " and he endeavoured to ...
Page 129
... seem concern- ed in thofe particulars , yet for himself without affectation " he declared that he was fo , and in fuch a degree , that no circumstances of fortune or intereft could engage him , " without those of the perfon , efpecially ...
... seem concern- ed in thofe particulars , yet for himself without affectation " he declared that he was fo , and in fuch a degree , that no circumstances of fortune or intereft could engage him , " without those of the perfon , efpecially ...
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