General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, المجلد 7G. G. and J. Robinson, 1808 |
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... labours .. At that pe- riod of his life , La Lande sent him the proof sheets of his " Astronomy , " and informs us that he was then capable of discovering and correcting errors in them . In 1772 , Mechain was invited to Paris , where he ...
... labours .. At that pe- riod of his life , La Lande sent him the proof sheets of his " Astronomy , " and informs us that he was then capable of discovering and correcting errors in them . In 1772 , Mechain was invited to Paris , where he ...
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... labours ; and he was af- terwards employed in arranging the observa- tory , for which La Lande , when he was direct- or , had procured a mural quadrant worthy of his care . Undaunted by the hardships which he had undergone , and the ...
... labours ; and he was af- terwards employed in arranging the observa- tory , for which La Lande , when he was direct- or , had procured a mural quadrant worthy of his care . Undaunted by the hardships which he had undergone , and the ...
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... labour in sounding the depths of astrological science , and he blotted much paper in calculating the nativities of ... labours would be found useful in illustrating the language of the prophets . His classical and mathematical studies ...
... labour in sounding the depths of astrological science , and he blotted much paper in calculating the nativities of ... labours would be found useful in illustrating the language of the prophets . His classical and mathematical studies ...
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... labours were rewarded by his munificence . When the capture of Constantinople by the Turks caused the dispersion of many learned Greeks , he made advantage of the circum- stance to promote the study of the Greek lan- guage in Italy ...
... labours were rewarded by his munificence . When the capture of Constantinople by the Turks caused the dispersion of many learned Greeks , he made advantage of the circum- stance to promote the study of the Greek lan- guage in Italy ...
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... labours . When he had laid down , he en- deavoured to dismiss as much as possible from his mind every thought which could tend to dis- turb his repose ; on which account he always postponed the reading of such letters as were brought to ...
... labours . When he had laid down , he en- deavoured to dismiss as much as possible from his mind every thought which could tend to dis- turb his repose ; on which account he always postponed the reading of such letters as were brought to ...
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الصفحة 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
الصفحة 107 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
الصفحة 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
الصفحة 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
الصفحة 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
الصفحة 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
الصفحة 485 - FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
الصفحة 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
الصفحة 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.
الصفحة 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.