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], 1815 - Biography |
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... manner of his death . According to some authors , he died by voluntary abstinence . One tradition says , that he lived to a good old age in Crete , and dying a natural death , his body was burned , according to the prac- tice of the age ...
... manner of his death . According to some authors , he died by voluntary abstinence . One tradition says , that he lived to a good old age in Crete , and dying a natural death , his body was burned , according to the prac- tice of the age ...
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... manner which astonished not only amateurs , but experienced artists . In 1748 his reputation procured him the honour of being elected a member of the royal society of London , as he was afterwards of other learned societies in Europe ...
... manner which astonished not only amateurs , but experienced artists . In 1748 his reputation procured him the honour of being elected a member of the royal society of London , as he was afterwards of other learned societies in Europe ...
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... manner which the ancients call the " tenuis vel subtilis . " He has none of the pomp of Isocrates . He is He is every where pure and attic in the highest degree ; simple and unaffected ; but wants force , and is sometimes frigid in his ...
... manner which the ancients call the " tenuis vel subtilis . " He has none of the pomp of Isocrates . He is He is every where pure and attic in the highest degree ; simple and unaffected ; but wants force , and is sometimes frigid in his ...
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... manner with which Dr. Warton says he was displeased * . For When he returned from his continental tour , he was ( May 4 , 1729 ) made page of honour to the princess royal . He also obtained a seat in parliament , and soon distin ...
... manner with which Dr. Warton says he was displeased * . For When he returned from his continental tour , he was ( May 4 , 1729 ) made page of honour to the princess royal . He also obtained a seat in parliament , and soon distin ...
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... manner , by saying that he chose not to be under any particular attachments , that , if he should happen to write any thing of the like kind for the future , it might not appear to proceed from any other mo- tive whatsoever , but a pure ...
... manner , by saying that he chose not to be under any particular attachments , that , if he should happen to write any thing of the like kind for the future , it might not appear to proceed from any other mo- tive whatsoever , but a pure ...
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Page 325 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Page 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Page 286 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Page 423 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Page 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Page 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Page 390 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 449 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Page 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.