The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography: A Series of Original Memoirs of Distinguished Men, of All Ages and All Nations, Teil 4William Mackenzie, 22 Paternoster Row; Howard Street, Glasgow; South Bridge, Edinburgh, 1857 - 948 Seiten |
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The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography: A Series of ..., Teil 11 John Francis Waller Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1863 |
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Seite 817 - Athenian Letters, or the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Seite 846 - I suspect that half which the unobservant have taken literally, he meant, secretly, in sarcasm. As Johnson in conversation, so Hazlitt in books, pushed his own theories to the extreme, partly to show his power, partly, perhaps, from contempt of the logic of his readers. He wrote rather for himself than others; and often seems to vent all his least assured and most uncertain thoughts — as if they troubled him by the doubts they inspired, and his only anxiety was to get rid of them. He had a keen...
Seite 866 - So help me God ! I will keep these charters inviolate, as I am a man, as I am a Christian, as I am a knight, and as I am a king crowned and anointed...
Seite 821 - The queen has told all the lords the reasons of her parting with him, viz., "that he neglected all business ; that he was seldom to be understood ; that when he did explain himself, she could not depend upon the truth of what he said ; that he never came to her at the time she appointed ; that he often came drunk ; lastly, to crown all, he behaved himself towards her with bad manners, indecency, and disrespect.
Seite 780 - A Voyage of Discovery to the Western Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (Lond.
Seite 821 - impeach the head ; he has impeached the clerk, " and I the justice ; he has impeached the scholar, " and I the master : I impeach Robert Earl of " Oxford, and Earl Mortimer, of high treason and " other high crimes and misdemeanors!
Seite 832 - Journals of the House of Commons, however, contain a significant note: "Feb. 12, an. 1643-4. A motion this day made for Dr. Micklethwayte to be recommended to the Wardens and Masters of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to be physician in the place of Dr. Harvey, who hath withdrawn himself from his charge and is retired to the party in arms against the Parliament.
Seite 952 - Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers or critics, knows that there is nothing yet established in either of these two sciences, and that they contain little more than endless disputes, even in the most fundamental articles.
Seite 887 - ... two thousand years ago a Greek philosopher devoted himself, as was the not infrequent custom of that group, to framing paradoxes — or, as we now call them — fallacies. One of these was that there can be no motion. "For," said he, "a body cannot move in the place where it is, and it cannot move in the place where it is not. Therefore, it cannot move at all.
Seite 836 - ... venie, was a fencing term, from the French, and signified the touch or blow with the foil : " the first veney " is the first hit. Page 126, line 13, Why, then, the Englishman for thy money.] This expression was proverbial, and a play was written by William Haughton, and printed in 1616, under the title of " Englishmen for my Money, or a Woman will have her Will.