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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Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions ... person so unfavourably situated for li- terary acquisitions should have gained the knowledge and talent fitting him ...
Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions ... person so unfavourably situated for li- terary acquisitions should have gained the knowledge and talent fitting him ...
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... persons , chosen by ballot out of the body of proprietors ; and every single subscription was to entitle the subscriber to one book and one pamphlet at a time , to be changed ad libitum for others , and kept ad libitum if not wanted by ...
... persons , chosen by ballot out of the body of proprietors ; and every single subscription was to entitle the subscriber to one book and one pamphlet at a time , to be changed ad libitum for others , and kept ad libitum if not wanted by ...
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Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions ... person more favourable to the measures which they had adopted against Athanasius , than Liberius , who had refused to ...
Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions ... person more favourable to the measures which they had adopted against Athanasius , than Liberius , who had refused to ...
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... persons chosen for this purpose were Misenus bishop of Cumæ , and Vitalis bishop of Tronto , who carried letters from the pope to Zeno and Acacius , conjuring them , as they tendered the salvation of their souls , not to suffer a ...
... persons chosen for this purpose were Misenus bishop of Cumæ , and Vitalis bishop of Tronto , who carried letters from the pope to Zeno and Acacius , conjuring them , as they tendered the salvation of their souls , not to suffer a ...
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... persons , and never permitted them to be persecuted ; and when it was repre- sented to him that the Jansenists were his avowed enemies , " That , " said he , " is an additional reason for tolerating and pardoning them . " It is supposed ...
... persons , and never permitted them to be persecuted ; and when it was repre- sented to him that the Jansenists were his avowed enemies , " That , " said he , " is an additional reason for tolerating and pardoning them . " It is supposed ...
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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.