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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... prelate , who was a consummate judge and patron of learning , was so well pleased with it , that he made the author an offer of the situa- tion of his domestic chaplain ; which Mr. Mede gratefully declined , esteeming the liberty . of ...
... prelate , who was a consummate judge and patron of learning , was so well pleased with it , that he made the author an offer of the situa- tion of his domestic chaplain ; which Mr. Mede gratefully declined , esteeming the liberty . of ...
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... prelate . His hopes , how- ever , were disappointed ; for the patriarch did not even deign to send him an answer . After a life of great labour and usefulness , in which regularity and temperance had enabled him to maintain a long ...
... prelate . His hopes , how- ever , were disappointed ; for the patriarch did not even deign to send him an answer . After a life of great labour and usefulness , in which regularity and temperance had enabled him to maintain a long ...
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... prelate from the see of Constantinople , was sent by him to Rome , to implore the as- sistance of pope Paschal on his behalf . Upon his return to Greece after the death of that patriarch , he signalized himself by his zeal for image ...
... prelate from the see of Constantinople , was sent by him to Rome , to implore the as- sistance of pope Paschal on his behalf . Upon his return to Greece after the death of that patriarch , he signalized himself by his zeal for image ...
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... pre- late on the day after his arrival . In the fol- lowing year , the emperor being compelled by " the exhausted state of the public treasury to lay heavy taxes upon the people , thought it reasonable to draw from the monasteries also ...
... pre- late on the day after his arrival . In the fol- lowing year , the emperor being compelled by " the exhausted state of the public treasury to lay heavy taxes upon the people , thought it reasonable to draw from the monasteries also ...
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... prelate in the 17th century , was the son of an apothecary at Arnonsay in the Viva- rais , the time of whose birth is not recorded . He was educated at the college of Autun at Paris , and rose from step to step , to the post of ...
... prelate in the 17th century , was the son of an apothecary at Arnonsay in the Viva- rais , the time of whose birth is not recorded . He was educated at the college of Autun at Paris , and rose from step to step , to the post of ...
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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.