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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الصفحة 91
... Soon after Mr. Middleton's election to a fel- lowship , he took an active part in the measures which were then concerting in opposition to Dr. Bentley's imperious conduct , as master of the college ; and he joined in the petition for ...
... Soon after Mr. Middleton's election to a fel- lowship , he took an active part in the measures which were then concerting in opposition to Dr. Bentley's imperious conduct , as master of the college ; and he joined in the petition for ...
الصفحة 109
... soon dismissed him . Milton now resolved to put his doctrine into practice , and began to pay his court to a young lady of great accomplishments , the daughter of a Dr. Davies . The rumour of this intended alliance effected what his ...
... soon dismissed him . Milton now resolved to put his doctrine into practice , and began to pay his court to a young lady of great accomplishments , the daughter of a Dr. Davies . The rumour of this intended alliance effected what his ...
الصفحة 116
... soon brought him into new difficulties . His conduct to his wife was brutal and unmanly , and his irregu- larities became so excessive and notorious , that several more lettres de cachet were issued against him , either restraining him ...
... soon brought him into new difficulties . His conduct to his wife was brutal and unmanly , and his irregu- larities became so excessive and notorious , that several more lettres de cachet were issued against him , either restraining him ...
الصفحة 117
... soon per- mitted to return to Paris , and ingratiated him- self with the minister Brienne , by writing against Necker . He visited Berlin in this summer , 1787 , where his friend Mauvillon ( see his article ) was employed in conjunction ...
... soon per- mitted to return to Paris , and ingratiated him- self with the minister Brienne , by writing against Necker . He visited Berlin in this summer , 1787 , where his friend Mauvillon ( see his article ) was employed in conjunction ...
الصفحة 120
... soon after , however , found a pretext to quarrel with him ; and the two kings met on the frontiers at the head of powerful armies . Distrusting the effect of force , Mithridates de- termined to employ treachery ; and proposing a ...
... soon after , however , found a pretext to quarrel with him ; and the two kings met on the frontiers at the head of powerful armies . Distrusting the effect of force , Mithridates de- termined to employ treachery ; and proposing a ...
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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.