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], 1812 |
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... says he resembles those authors who admirably dis- cover the weakness of any doctrine , but never discover the strong side of it : they are , he adds , like warriors , who bring fire and sword into the enemies ' country , but are not ...
... says he resembles those authors who admirably dis- cover the weakness of any doctrine , but never discover the strong side of it : they are , he adds , like warriors , who bring fire and sword into the enemies ' country , but are not ...
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... says Dr. Salter , appears through all the sourness and severity of his opinions , in his " Tactica Sacra , " a book written in a clear style , and with a lively fancy ; in which is displayed at once much weakness and stiffness , but ...
... says Dr. Salter , appears through all the sourness and severity of his opinions , in his " Tactica Sacra , " a book written in a clear style , and with a lively fancy ; in which is displayed at once much weakness and stiffness , but ...
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... says Linnæus , " had I finished my Fundamenta Botanica , ' than I hastened to communicate them to Artedi ; he shewed me on his part the work which had been the result of several years study , his Philosophia Ichthyologia , ' and other ...
... says Linnæus , " had I finished my Fundamenta Botanica , ' than I hastened to communicate them to Artedi ; he shewed me on his part the work which had been the result of several years study , his Philosophia Ichthyologia , ' and other ...
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... says that his tables are preserved in several libraries , in manuscript , with an introduction which ex- plains their use . ' 1 ASAPH ( ST . ) , who gave his name to the episcopal see of St. Asaph in Wales , was descended of a good ...
... says that his tables are preserved in several libraries , in manuscript , with an introduction which ex- plains their use . ' 1 ASAPH ( ST . ) , who gave his name to the episcopal see of St. Asaph in Wales , was descended of a good ...
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... says Dr. Johnson , " at a time when the last great revolution of the intellectual world was filling every academical mind with ardour or anxiety . The destruction of the Constantinopolitan em- pire had driven the Greeks , with their ...
... says Dr. Johnson , " at a time when the last great revolution of the intellectual world was filling every academical mind with ardour or anxiety . The destruction of the Constantinopolitan em- pire had driven the Greeks , with their ...
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Seite 452 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Seite 37 - An Argument, proving, that according to the Covenant of Eternal Life, revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life, without passing through Death, although the Human Nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated till he had passed through Death ; 1703.
Seite 264 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Seite 203 - and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Seite 368 - Pageant of Popes Contayninge the Lyves of all the Bishops of Rome, from the Beginninge of them to the Year of Grace 1555 was a denunciation of every pope from Peter to Paul IV.
Seite 203 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 203 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Seite 253 - Aristotle; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way; being a philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man; in which mind he continued to his dying day.
Seite 125 - This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart; and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness until he hath convinced you of the truth of it.
Seite 178 - ... him to allow the Christian converts, on certain festivals, to kill and eat a great number of oxen, to the glory of God, as they had formerly done to the honour of the devil.