The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1815 |
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... never beat this hump - backed fellow ? " This speech being repeated to the duke , " How should he know , " said he , " the shape of my back ? I am sure he never saw me turn it to bim . " The last great action of the duke's life was a ...
... never beat this hump - backed fellow ? " This speech being repeated to the duke , " How should he know , " said he , " the shape of my back ? I am sure he never saw me turn it to bim . " The last great action of the duke's life was a ...
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... never sat among them , but remained on his living , employed in preaching , catechizing , & c . until his death , Oct. 3 , 1653. Fuller and Wood unite in their praises of Mr. Lyford's character , and in their 1 Memoirs as above . - MS ...
... never sat among them , but remained on his living , employed in preaching , catechizing , & c . until his death , Oct. 3 , 1653. Fuller and Wood unite in their praises of Mr. Lyford's character , and in their 1 Memoirs as above . - MS ...
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... never been able to fabricate a specious answer . This book his father had the happiness of seeing , and expressed his pleasure in a letter which deserves to be inserted , and must have given to such a son a pleasure more easily ...
... never been able to fabricate a specious answer . This book his father had the happiness of seeing , and expressed his pleasure in a letter which deserves to be inserted , and must have given to such a son a pleasure more easily ...
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... never cease glorifying God , for having endowed you with such useful talents , and given me so good a son . Your affectionate father , THO- MAS LYTTELTON . " - When the university of Oxford con- ferred the degree of LL . D. on Mr. West ...
... never cease glorifying God , for having endowed you with such useful talents , and given me so good a son . Your affectionate father , THO- MAS LYTTELTON . " - When the university of Oxford con- ferred the degree of LL . D. on Mr. West ...
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... never the appearance of a strong or a healthy man ; he had a slender uncompacted frame , and a meagre face : he lived , however , above sixty years , and then was seized with his last illness . Of his death this very affecting and ...
... never the appearance of a strong or a healthy man ; he had a slender uncompacted frame , and a meagre face : he lived , however , above sixty years , and then was seized with his last illness . Of his death this very affecting and ...
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Página 9 - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
Página 28 - you shall be my confessor : when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Página 28 - I have made public good the rule of my conduct. I never gave counsels which I did not at the time think the best. I have seen that I was sometimes in the wrong, but I did not err designedly. I have endeavoured in private life to do all the good in my power, and never for a moment could indulge malicious or unjust designs upon any person whatsoever.
Página 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Página 87 - Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; being original Letters of State under George the Sixth, relating to the most important events in Great- Britain, and Europe, as to church and state, arts and sciences, trade, taxes, and treaties, peace and war, and characters of the greatest persons of those times, from the middle of the eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century, and the world.
Página 78 - I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other ; to revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with .which the world is not yet acquainted ; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
Página 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Página 227 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Página 471 - Brittannique sometimes aspires to the character of a poet and philosopher : his style is pure and elegant ; and in his virtues, or even in his defects, he may be ranked as one of the last disciples of the school of Fontenelle.
Página 521 - What doubts have you met in your studies today ! ' for he supposed that to doubt nothing and to understand nothing were verifiable alike.