The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, المجلد 4،العدد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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... success , upon Caunus and Cnidus . He and Alcetas de- feated Asander , the satrap or governor of Ca- ria , whom Antipater sent against them [ ASAN- DER ] ; but they were soon afterwards defeated by Antigonus in Pisidia , where they had ...
... success , upon Caunus and Cnidus . He and Alcetas de- feated Asander , the satrap or governor of Ca- ria , whom Antipater sent against them [ ASAN- DER ] ; but they were soon afterwards defeated by Antigonus in Pisidia , where they had ...
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... successful : he was captured at sea , and taken to Constantius , general of Honorius , and by him sent to Honorius at ... success- fully resisted his attacks . Alaric was , by this time , quite estranged from the cause of Atta- lus ...
... successful : he was captured at sea , and taken to Constantius , general of Honorius , and by him sent to Honorius at ... success- fully resisted his attacks . Alaric was , by this time , quite estranged from the cause of Atta- lus ...
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... success . His shop was the admiration of the city , its beauty and fragrance rivalling those of the garden of Irem . " Here the rich found an inex- haustible source for the supply of their lux- uries , and the poor never turned away dis ...
... success . His shop was the admiration of the city , its beauty and fragrance rivalling those of the garden of Irem . " Here the rich found an inex- haustible source for the supply of their lux- uries , and the poor never turned away dis ...
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... success the graces of style , as we know , from the testi- mony of Steele , he had cultivated the graces of elocution . But the literary merits of his writings are always subordinate to the pro- motion of some end which he had in view ...
... success the graces of style , as we know , from the testi- mony of Steele , he had cultivated the graces of elocution . But the literary merits of his writings are always subordinate to the pro- motion of some end which he had in view ...
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... successful in his war with Julius Cæsar ; and that Cicero himself , especially during the exile into which Clodius had driven him , believed himself to have reason to complain of his old friend and schoolfellow for a lukewarmness ...
... successful in his war with Julius Cæsar ; and that Cicero himself , especially during the exile into which Clodius had driven him , believed himself to have reason to complain of his old friend and schoolfellow for a lukewarmness ...
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الصفحة 42 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
الصفحة 344 - I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer, who teacheth me, so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing, whiles I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because, whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
الصفحة 344 - Bishop of London, published an answer to Knox, under the title of An Harbour for Faithful and true Subjects, against the late Blown Blast, concerning the government of Women* And certainly he was a thought more acute, a thought less precipitate and simple, than his adversary.
الصفحة 217 - Wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
الصفحة 194 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
الصفحة 379 - SHOULD old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon. The flames of love extinguished, And freely past and gone ? Is thy kind heart now grown so cold In that loving breast of thine, That thou canst never once reflect On old...
الصفحة 369 - A Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, hitherto undescribed, consisting of five thousand volumes ; including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, DD, and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times.
الصفحة 20 - ... of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience, who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason.
الصفحة 246 - Milan library ; but the writing, he observes, is that of the end of the sixteenth, or beginning of the seventeenth century; and from the paper having on it
الصفحة 365 - The Count of Gabalis : or, the Extravagant Mysteries of the Cabalists, exposed in Five Pleasant Discourses on the Secret Sciences.