Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Somers to HunterC. Knight, 1838 - Biography |
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... discovery . Not less than two- thirds of these were necessary to make a quorum , and the consent of not less than two - thirds of such quorum in all matters of moment . The Assembly were to have no deliberative power , but when bills ...
... discovery . Not less than two- thirds of these were necessary to make a quorum , and the consent of not less than two - thirds of such quorum in all matters of moment . The Assembly were to have no deliberative power , but when bills ...
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... discovery into the interior ; and he has given an interesting account of the country in its wild state , in a letter written home to the Society of Free Traders to Pennsylvania . He held frequent conferences with the Indians , and ...
... discovery into the interior ; and he has given an interesting account of the country in its wild state , in a letter written home to the Society of Free Traders to Pennsylvania . He held frequent conferences with the Indians , and ...
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... discovery of the plot . Ghent and Bruges passed over to the enemy , who prosecuted their success by forming the siege of Oudenard : but the rapid march of Marlborough compelled them to abandon this design , and brought on another battle ...
... discovery of the plot . Ghent and Bruges passed over to the enemy , who prosecuted their success by forming the siege of Oudenard : but the rapid march of Marlborough compelled them to abandon this design , and brought on another battle ...
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... discovery appears to have been quite independent of any speculations of his predecessors . The circumstances attending it are well known : the very spot in which it first dawned upon him is ascertained . He was sitting in the garden at ...
... discovery appears to have been quite independent of any speculations of his predecessors . The circumstances attending it are well known : the very spot in which it first dawned upon him is ascertained . He was sitting in the garden at ...
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... discovery as an introduction to an edition of Kinckhuysen's Algebra , which he undertook to prepare in 1672 ; but the fear of con- troversy preyented him , and the method of fluxions was not publicly announced till the appearance of the ...
... discovery as an introduction to an edition of Kinckhuysen's Algebra , which he undertook to prepare in 1672 ; but the fear of con- troversy preyented him , and the method of fluxions was not publicly announced till the appearance of the ...
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Page 168 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of anything else which he has written.
Page 274 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 107 - The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England Examined and Asserted ; the other, The Freeholder's Plea against the Stock-jobbing Elections of Parliament-men.
Page 15 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice...
Page 284 - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
Page 494 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow.
Page 44 - It is not uncommon, for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the lights which he afforded them.
Page 242 - Millar told me that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.
Page 149 - Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with mankind, and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards ; and being praised by Addison in the Spectator* with sufficient liberality,...
Page 195 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums, Arrest him, empress ; or you sleep no more...