The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 18Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 - Biography |
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... respect . Among the connexions of Miss Barker's family were some who were established at Bath , and Mr. Hoare soon received an invitation to settle at that city , where , as there was no person of any eminence in his profession , he ...
... respect . Among the connexions of Miss Barker's family were some who were established at Bath , and Mr. Hoare soon received an invitation to settle at that city , where , as there was no person of any eminence in his profession , he ...
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... respect unpleasing , being nothing more than a fictitious narrative delivered in mean prose , with the additional mean- ness of harsh rhime , and untuneable measure . " Beattie's Essay on Poetry and Music . when I thought he had read it ...
... respect unpleasing , being nothing more than a fictitious narrative delivered in mean prose , with the additional mean- ness of harsh rhime , and untuneable measure . " Beattie's Essay on Poetry and Music . when I thought he had read it ...
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... the nobleman's pride , and by that means answer his purpose . It was couched in the following card : " Mr. Hogarth's dutiful respects to lord ; finding that he does not mean to have the picture which was drawn 42 HOGAR T H.
... the nobleman's pride , and by that means answer his purpose . It was couched in the following card : " Mr. Hogarth's dutiful respects to lord ; finding that he does not mean to have the picture which was drawn 42 HOGAR T H.
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... respecting others , than when applied to ourselves . Hogarth being at dinner with the celebrated Cheselden , and some other company , was told that Mr. John Freke , surgeon of St. Bartholomew's hospital , a few evenings before at Dick's ...
... respecting others , than when applied to ourselves . Hogarth being at dinner with the celebrated Cheselden , and some other company , was told that Mr. John Freke , surgeon of St. Bartholomew's hospital , a few evenings before at Dick's ...
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... respect has been highly praised by Dupin . Some suspected him of Jansenism , but his biographers wish to repell this charge , as they think it . Among his works are three , which chiefly contributed to his fame , 1. " Analysis Fidei ...
... respect has been highly praised by Dupin . Some suspected him of Jansenism , but his biographers wish to repell this charge , as they think it . Among his works are three , which chiefly contributed to his fame , 1. " Analysis Fidei ...
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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...
Page 249 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 304 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
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 457 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 173 - He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it : and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done.
Page 306 - I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange...
Page 515 - Jewish Antiquities, or a Course of Lectures on the Three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron. To which is annexed a Dissertation on the Hebrew Language.
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 220 - The nation as well as the university," says Bishop Burnet, "looked on all these proceedings with just indignation. It was thought an open piece of robbery and burglary when men, authorized by no legal commission, came and forcibly turned men out of their possession and freehold.