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 11
... gave editions of various learned works , and honoured the place of his residence with a copious account of its eminent men , entitled " Memoriæ Hamburgen- ses , " seven volumes 8vo . since augmented by an eighth . Moreri . Nouv . Dict ...
... gave editions of various learned works , and honoured the place of his residence with a copious account of its eminent men , entitled " Memoriæ Hamburgen- ses , " seven volumes 8vo . since augmented by an eighth . Moreri . Nouv . Dict ...
Sivu 13
... gave the title of " Tarickh Moubarec Cazani ; " or , The August History of Cazam . After the death of this sultan , his successor Mohammed Khoda- bendi ordered Fadlallah to complete the work , and add to it a civil and geographical ...
... gave the title of " Tarickh Moubarec Cazani ; " or , The August History of Cazam . After the death of this sultan , his successor Mohammed Khoda- bendi ordered Fadlallah to complete the work , and add to it a civil and geographical ...
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... gave it . Pour on wine and oil in sieged them in their asylum , and obliged them due season , and demean yourself as an evange- to surrender upon a capitulation . While the list , and not as a tyrannical legislator . " In the terms were ...
... gave it . Pour on wine and oil in sieged them in their asylum , and obliged them due season , and demean yourself as an evange- to surrender upon a capitulation . While the list , and not as a tyrannical legislator . " In the terms were ...
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John Aikin. resolving that he should again march into France , gave him orders to make new levies and prepare for his departure . He repaired , in consequence , to Arras , where he died in December , 1592 , at the age of forty - six . He ...
John Aikin. resolving that he should again march into France , gave him orders to make new levies and prepare for his departure . He repaired , in consequence , to Arras , where he died in December , 1592 , at the age of forty - six . He ...
Sivu 33
... gave it . Pour on wine and oil in due season , and demean yourself as an evange- list , and not as a tyrannical legislator . " In the year 1528 Farel proved successful in propa- gating the principles of the reformation at Aigle , and in ...
... gave it . Pour on wine and oil in due season , and demean yourself as an evange- list , and not as a tyrannical legislator . " In the year 1528 Farel proved successful in propa- gating the principles of the reformation at Aigle , and in ...
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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.