The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Volume 3, Issue 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Biography |
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... character in the assemblies of the French clergy at Paris , A. D. 1605 and 1606. He exerted himself with the greatest diligence , at considerable pecuniary cost , and sometimes at the risk of his life , in seeking out and recovering the ...
... character in the assemblies of the French clergy at Paris , A. D. 1605 and 1606. He exerted himself with the greatest diligence , at considerable pecuniary cost , and sometimes at the risk of his life , in seeking out and recovering the ...
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... character and conduct of its proprietor than to its own merits . Anthonie certainly is not to be classed with quacks of modern times . The notion that a universal medicine might be found was then generally entertained , even by the ...
... character and conduct of its proprietor than to its own merits . Anthonie certainly is not to be classed with quacks of modern times . The notion that a universal medicine might be found was then generally entertained , even by the ...
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... character , he even exhibited his follies at the public games . In his more serious moods he was guilty of the most cruel tyranny , but it is thought that many of the crimes laid to his charge were committed by his ministers without his ...
... character , he even exhibited his follies at the public games . In his more serious moods he was guilty of the most cruel tyranny , but it is thought that many of the crimes laid to his charge were committed by his ministers without his ...
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... character of the emperor , says Philostratus , could not have been exhi- bited on the stage with more truth than it is displayed in the letters which Antipater wrote for Severus . He gradually became so great a favourite with the ...
... character of the emperor , says Philostratus , could not have been exhi- bited on the stage with more truth than it is displayed in the letters which Antipater wrote for Severus . He gradually became so great a favourite with the ...
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... character for trustworthiness given him by Valerius Maximus ( i . 7. ) . Thus he had examined minutely the various sto- ries current of the death of Marcellus : he had conversed with one who had sailed , or pretended to have sailed ...
... character for trustworthiness given him by Valerius Maximus ( i . 7. ) . Thus he had examined minutely the various sto- ries current of the death of Marcellus : he had conversed with one who had sailed , or pretended to have sailed ...
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Page 8 - Essai historique sur le commerce et la navigation de la mer Noire...
Page 259 - Wit they had all in equal measure, and in a measure so large, that no age perhaps ever produced three men, to whom Nature had more bountifully bestowed it, or in whom Art had brought it to higher perfection.
Page 258 - His lucubrations lie neglected among old news-papers, cases, petitions, and abundance of unanswerable letters. I wish to God they had been among the papers of a noble Lord sealed up. Then might Scriblerus have passed for the Pretender, and...
Page 263 - A most excellent and Compendious Method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same Arte...
Page 305 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 258 - When shop was shut up, he would go about the neighbourhood, and earn half a crown by teaching the young men and maids to dance. By these methods he had acquired immense riches, which he used to squander away at back-sword, quarter-staff, and cudgel-play, in which he took great pleasure; and challenged all the country. You will say it is no wonder if BULL and FROG should be jealous of this fellow.
Page 206 - ... vice of that age, many of the wives and children of Queen Elizabeth's glorious captains were reduced to poverty, his purse was their common treasury, and they knew not...
Page 260 - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Page 259 - ... they all had in common. Dr. Arbuthnot was skilled in every thing which related to science ; Mr. Pope was a master in the fine arts ; and Dr. Swift excelled in the knowledge of the world. Wit they had all in equal measure, and...
Page 269 - Action d'un Feu egal, violent et continue pendant plusieurs Jours sur un grand Nombre de Terres, de Pierres, et Chaux ARCET. Mfetalliques essayees pour la plupart telles qu'elles sortent du Sein de la Terre,