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 4G. G. and J. Robinson, 1803 |
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... lived during the second Punic war , and was sent after the battle of Cannæ , B.C. 216 , upon a deputation to the Delphic oracle , in or- der to enquire the proper means for appeasing the anger of the gods . He is thought to have writ ...
... lived during the second Punic war , and was sent after the battle of Cannæ , B.C. 216 , upon a deputation to the Delphic oracle , in or- der to enquire the proper means for appeasing the anger of the gods . He is thought to have writ ...
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... lived before the time of Nestorius , and had died not only in the communion of the church , but with the highest reputation for sanctity . And the council of Chalcedon had declared the faith of Theodoret and Ibas to be entirely.or ...
... lived before the time of Nestorius , and had died not only in the communion of the church , but with the highest reputation for sanctity . And the council of Chalcedon had declared the faith of Theodoret and Ibas to be entirely.or ...
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... lived in retirement at his seat in York- shire , and took no part in public measures . At the eve of the restoration he , like many others who had been engaged in the same cause , came forward to participate in the merit of that event ...
... lived in retirement at his seat in York- shire , and took no part in public measures . At the eve of the restoration he , like many others who had been engaged in the same cause , came forward to participate in the merit of that event ...
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... lived on terms of intimacy and friendship with him . In the year 1716 he was chosen a member of the Academy of Belles Lettres . He had formed a library consisting of more than fifty thousand volumes , from which , in the year 1742 , he ...
... lived on terms of intimacy and friendship with him . In the year 1716 he was chosen a member of the Academy of Belles Lettres . He had formed a library consisting of more than fifty thousand volumes , from which , in the year 1742 , he ...
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... lived en- tirely recluse . When Mr. Georgi , a member of the Society of Natural History at Berlin , who had been commissioned to assist and relieve Falk in the duties of his expedition , went to see him on this occasion , he seemed ...
... lived en- tirely recluse . When Mr. Georgi , a member of the Society of Natural History at Berlin , who had been commissioned to assist and relieve Falk in the duties of his expedition , went to see him on this occasion , he seemed ...
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الصفحة 201 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
الصفحة 191 - Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.
الصفحة 293 - In every art that he attempted, his lively genius enabled him to succeed ; and, as his genius was destitute of judgment, he attempted every art, except the important ones of war and government.
الصفحة 104 - Yea, is he yet so lusty ? Well, let the pope send him a hat when he will, Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders then ; for I will leave him never a head to set it on.
الصفحة 393 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
الصفحة 504 - Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.
الصفحة 192 - O no, it is not the Scripture, but it is the Holy Spirit, by which the holy men of God gave forth the Scriptures, whereby opinions, religions, and judgments are to be tried. That was it which led into all truth, and gave the knowledge thereof.
الصفحة 195 - A divine, and a naturalist, and all of God Almighty's making. I have been surprised at his questions and answers in natural things, that whilst he was ignorant of useless and sophistical science, he had in him the foundation of useful and commendable knowledge, and cherished it everywhere. Civil beyond all forms of breeding in his behaviour; very temperate, eating little and sleeping less, though a bulky person.
الصفحة 395 - I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table, and almost on every toilette...
الصفحة 273 - If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, among the very first of that rising name.