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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... undisguised , that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him , he lies so open to injury ; but so indolent , that if he cannot overcome this habit , all his good qualities will signify nothing at all . " Some of ...
... undisguised , that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him , he lies so open to injury ; but so indolent , that if he cannot overcome this habit , all his good qualities will signify nothing at all . " Some of ...
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Página 323 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
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 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Página 284 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Página 421 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
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 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Página 388 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 447 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Página 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.
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| Título | 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.. Volumen 20 de 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, Nichols, Son, and Bentley |
| Contribuidores | Alexander Chalmers, John Nichols, Nichols, Son, and Bentley |
| Editor | J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1815 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 10 May 2007 |
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