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 14
... learned languages began to revive in Germany , and Wolfgang Capito had contributed to facilitate that of the Hebrew by publishing his Institu- tiones Hebraica . Some of the most learned of the Jews , also , were now offering their ...
... learned languages began to revive in Germany , and Wolfgang Capito had contributed to facilitate that of the Hebrew by publishing his Institu- tiones Hebraica . Some of the most learned of the Jews , also , were now offering their ...
Sivu 29
... learned clergyman of the church of England , in a treatise , entitled " An impartial Enquiry into the Case of the Gospel Demoniacs , & c ; " in which the author's notion of the Scripture Demonology partakes much of the manichæan ...
... learned clergyman of the church of England , in a treatise , entitled " An impartial Enquiry into the Case of the Gospel Demoniacs , & c ; " in which the author's notion of the Scripture Demonology partakes much of the manichæan ...
Sivu 33
... learned pen . For however binding this request might be thought with respect to the general mass of his manuscripts , a very allowable latitude of construction would have justified them in sparing from the common destruction some pieces ...
... learned pen . For however binding this request might be thought with respect to the general mass of his manuscripts , a very allowable latitude of construction would have justified them in sparing from the common destruction some pieces ...
Sivu 40
... learned Huet wrote • his curious work on the Origin of Romances , in which his complaisance induced him to give a consequence to this class of compositions that exposed him to some censure . Madame la Fay- ette possessed solidity as ...
... learned Huet wrote • his curious work on the Origin of Romances , in which his complaisance induced him to give a consequence to this class of compositions that exposed him to some censure . Madame la Fay- ette possessed solidity as ...
Sivu 41
... learned divine of the church of England , was born at Charlton in Oxfordshire , in 1582. His grammar learning he received in the school adjoining to Magdalen- college , Oxford , and in the year 1594 was ad- mitted scholar of Corpus ...
... learned divine of the church of England , was born at Charlton in Oxfordshire , in 1582. His grammar learning he received in the school adjoining to Magdalen- college , Oxford , and in the year 1594 was ad- mitted scholar of Corpus ...
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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.