General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions and professions, chiefly composed by J. Aikin and W. Enfield, Nide 41803 |
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Sivu 19
... possessed a happy art of communicating to others the result of his reading and reflection . Every lover of litera- ture had ready access to him , and his lively cheerful manners , and freedom from affecta- tion , joined to the ...
... possessed a happy art of communicating to others the result of his reading and reflection . Every lover of litera- ture had ready access to him , and his lively cheerful manners , and freedom from affecta- tion , joined to the ...
Sivu 24
... possessed that stock of learning , zeal , and intrepidity , and those persuasive talents , which peculiarly qualified him for gaining proselytes to the principles which he had embraced ; on which account he was advised to undertake the ...
... possessed that stock of learning , zeal , and intrepidity , and those persuasive talents , which peculiarly qualified him for gaining proselytes to the principles which he had embraced ; on which account he was advised to undertake the ...
Sivu 26
... possessed a powerful command- ing voices and a wonderful fluency of language , which pecularly qualitied him for the offices et a public disputant , and popular pulpit PEROL In these characters his labours pro- duced axomshing effects ...
... possessed a powerful command- ing voices and a wonderful fluency of language , which pecularly qualitied him for the offices et a public disputant , and popular pulpit PEROL In these characters his labours pro- duced axomshing effects ...
Sivu 31
... possessed by our great dramatist , with a reference to the farther question of the ori- ginality of his genius . It was easy to shew from many parts of his works that he was not unacquainted with the mythology and history of the ...
... possessed by our great dramatist , with a reference to the farther question of the ori- ginality of his genius . It was easy to shew from many parts of his works that he was not unacquainted with the mythology and history of the ...
Sivu 33
... possessed of lively parts , and was much esteemed in the circle of his friends . He took the degrees of B.A. in 1757 , and of M.A. in 1760 , in which latter year he was appointed classical tutor of his college . At the same time he ...
... possessed of lively parts , and was much esteemed in the circle of his friends . He took the degrees of B.A. in 1757 , and of M.A. in 1760 , in which latter year he was appointed classical tutor of his college . At the same time he ...
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Sivu 307 - The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties.
Sivu 304 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Sivu 165 - Do you sincerely declare, that you love mankind in general; of what profession or religion soever? Answer. I do. 3. Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Answer. No. 4. Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavour impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
Sivu 73 - 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.
Sivu 305 - After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation.
Sivu 144 - 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.
Sivu 307 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Sivu 112 - ... the degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by the university of Glasgow.
Sivu 406 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Sivu 304 - 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.