Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 11836 |
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... reason , and erudition , as long as English literature shall exist ; while many a standard work , perhaps equally learned and more convincing , is permitted to repose upon the shelf . But it is in his episodes and digressions that ...
... reason , and erudition , as long as English literature shall exist ; while many a standard work , perhaps equally learned and more convincing , is permitted to repose upon the shelf . But it is in his episodes and digressions that ...
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Englishmen George Godfrey Cunningham. it would appear , among other reasons , for the purpose of ascertaining what had been written on a subject ; not that he might adopt or reject , at his discretion , the opinions of others , but that ...
Englishmen George Godfrey Cunningham. it would appear , among other reasons , for the purpose of ascertaining what had been written on a subject ; not that he might adopt or reject , at his discretion , the opinions of others , but that ...
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... reason , and his master - science was theology ; the very outline of which last , as marked out by this great man , for the di- rection of young students , surpasses the attainments of many who have he reputation of considerable divines ...
... reason , and his master - science was theology ; the very outline of which last , as marked out by this great man , for the di- rection of young students , surpasses the attainments of many who have he reputation of considerable divines ...
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... reasons , and for the most part accord- ing to some perverse and capricious reasons of his own . In short , it may be adduced as one of those compensations with which Providence is ever observed to balance the excesses and superfluities ...
... reasons , and for the most part accord- ing to some perverse and capricious reasons of his own . In short , it may be adduced as one of those compensations with which Providence is ever observed to balance the excesses and superfluities ...
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... reason of the sentiments which he had openly avowed concerning church power and civil liberty , he left the university and lived nearly ten years in retire- ment with his uncle in Yorkshire . He had early acquired a fondness for the ...
... reason of the sentiments which he had openly avowed concerning church power and civil liberty , he left the university and lived nearly ten years in retire- ment with his uncle in Yorkshire . He had early acquired a fondness for the ...
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Page 220 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 54 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 219 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 100 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Page 218 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Page 104 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation: English, Scotch, and Irish; Whig and Tory; churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist; patriot and courtier united in their rage against the man, who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I, and the Earl of Strafford...
Page 220 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 227 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — "The gloomy night is gathering fast,
Page 14 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Page 125 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.