Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", المجلد 2Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... language , of which only very brief fragments remain in the writings of Cicero , Aulus Gellius , and the grammarians . His merit has been variously estimated by the ancients . Cicero ( Ad Attic . , ' vii . 3 ) condemns his style as bad ...
... language , of which only very brief fragments remain in the writings of Cicero , Aulus Gellius , and the grammarians . His merit has been variously estimated by the ancients . Cicero ( Ad Attic . , ' vii . 3 ) condemns his style as bad ...
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... languages , 2 vols . fol . , Padua , 1731. While engaged on this labour Forcellini conceived the idea of a totally ... language , gracefulness of dialogue , facility of versification , richness of diction , and fertility of imagination ...
... languages , 2 vols . fol . , Padua , 1731. While engaged on this labour Forcellini conceived the idea of a totally ... language , gracefulness of dialogue , facility of versification , richness of diction , and fertility of imagination ...
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... Language , and other works necessary for those who as missionaries in the East had to communicate with many nations speaking that language . He was also anxious for the conver- sion of the Jews to Christianity , and with that view wrote ...
... Language , and other works necessary for those who as missionaries in the East had to communicate with many nations speaking that language . He was also anxious for the conver- sion of the Jews to Christianity , and with that view wrote ...
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... language , and few students would even now turn over its pages without advantage . His last work was a Translation ... languages . CAMPBELL , REV . JOHN , was born at Edinburgh in March 1766 , and apprenticed to a goldsmith and jeweller ...
... language , and few students would even now turn over its pages without advantage . His last work was a Translation ... languages . CAMPBELL , REV . JOHN , was born at Edinburgh in March 1766 , and apprenticed to a goldsmith and jeweller ...
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... language ; Introduction to the Music of the Turks ; ' guage , and dedicated to Peter the Great . Cantemir was acquainted with many languages ; he was also a member of the Academy of Berlin . His son Antiochus was Russian ambassador at ...
... language ; Introduction to the Music of the Turks ; ' guage , and dedicated to Peter the Great . Cantemir was acquainted with many languages ; he was also a member of the Academy of Berlin . His son Antiochus was Russian ambassador at ...
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الصفحة 423 - And forasmuch as my hand offended, writing contrary to my heart, my hand shall first be punished therefore; for, may I come to the fire, it shall be first burned. " And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
الصفحة 287 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
الصفحة 393 - Crudities, hastily gobled up in five moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands ; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome.
الصفحة 83 - The first time I saw Irving was six-and-twenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with College prizes, high character and promise; he had come to see our Schoolmaster, who had also been his. We heard of famed Professors, of high matters classical, mathematical, a whole Wonderland of Knowledge: nothing but joy, health, hopefulness without end, looked out from the blooming young man.
الصفحة 435 - I knew not), very ordinarily appareled; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hat-band ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour ; for the subjectmatter...
الصفحة 423 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life if it might be...
الصفحة 313 - At a very premature age, even before my fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysics, and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History, and particular facts, lost all interest in my mind.
الصفحة 405 - ... he was among those who freed translation from servility, and instead of following his author at a distance, walked by his side; and that, if he left versification yet improvable, he left likewise from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled succeeding poets to improve it.
الصفحة 133 - Burgoyne, &e., whych sayd translacion and werke was begonne in Brugis in 1468 and ended in the holy cyte of Colen 19 Sept. 1471,' fol. 4. ' The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French, fynysshid the last day of Marche, 1474,' fol. 5. A second edition of the same, fol. (with woodcuts). 6. ' A Boke of the hoole lyf of Jason,
الصفحة 317 - An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay From the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer, eighteen years a Missionary in that country.